FIN7.5: the infamous cybercrime rig “FIN7” continues its activities

On August 1, 2018, the US Department of Justice announced that it had arrested several individuals suspected of having ties to the FIN7 cybercrime rig. FIN7 operations are linked to numerous intrusion attempts having targeted hundreds of companies since at least as early as 2015. Interestingly,...

Avengers: Endgame Sites Promise Digital Downloads, Deliver Info-Harvesting

Marvel Studio’s long-awaited superhero juggernaut Avengers: Endgame, represents the second-largest worldwide box-office haul for any film, ever – raking in $2.2 billion in its first two weekends. With demand like that, perhaps it’s not surprising that enterprising scammers are already luring in...

Mysterious database exposed personal information of 80 million US households

Word has broken of yet another massive data trove exposed for anyone to see. A research team from vpnMentor discovered an exposed 24GB database hosted on a Microsoft cloud server containing the addresses, income levels, and marital statuses of users within 80 million US households. As we’ve seen...

Fake Jason Statham Bilks a Fan Out of Serious Money

English actor Jason Statham – a.k.a. “the Transporter” – is cozying up to people who like his Facebook page – or at least, someone purporting to be him is. A fraudster managed to bilk a vulnerable and unsuspecting Statham fan out of a “significant amount” of money after approaching her while she...

CVE-2019-9807

When arbitrary text is sent over an FTP connection and a page reload is initiated, it is possible to create a modal alert message with this text as the content. This could potentially be used for social engineering attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox 66...

CVE-2019-9807

When arbitrary text is sent over an FTP connection and a page reload is initiated, it is possible to create a modal alert message with this text as the content. This could potentially be used for social engineering attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox 66...

Code injection

When arbitrary text is sent over an FTP connection and a page reload is initiated, it is possible to create a modal alert message with this text as the content. This could potentially be used for social engineering attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox 66...

CVE-2019-9807

CVE-2019-9807 affects Firefox prior to 66.0. When arbitrary text is sent over an FTP connection and a page reload is initiated, Firefox could display a modal alert containing that text, enabling potential social engineering. Affected product: Firefox (pre-66). Root cause described in connected so...

CVE-2019-9807

When arbitrary text is sent over an FTP connection and a page reload is initiated, it is possible to create a modal alert message with this text as the content. This could potentially be used for social engineering attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox 66...

CVE-2019-9807

When arbitrary text is sent over an FTP connection and a page reload is initiated, it is possible to create a modal alert message with this text as the content. This could potentially be used for social engineering attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox 66...

Oversharing and safety in the age of social media

Many years ago, I worked with healthcare organizations to install infrastructure to support the modernization of their information systems. As I traversed hospitals – both in public and private sectors – I was often struck by one particular best practice: the privacy reminders were ubiquitous. If...

FBI: BEC Scam Losses Almost Double To Reach $1.2 Billion

Business email compromise BEC scams are squeezing more money than ever out of victims, with losses from the attacks almost doubling year-over-year in 2018 to reach $1.2 billion. That’s according to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report IC3 for 2018, which records the number of complaints, losses...

ZEIT: Stored XSS on Zeit.co user profile

Hello team, There is a possibility to have a stored XSS in user profile. Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to zeit.co 2. Click on "Join for free" at the top right side of the page to go to https://zeit.co/signup 3. Select "Continue with GITLAB" note that you must have your Gitlab account logged in 4. Cli...

USN-3918-4: Firefox regressions

USN-3918-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused web compatibility and performance issues with some websites. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in ...

Ed: securitytemplate.site domain hijack

Hi, Security-template I realized that your security-template project domain name seems to have expired, http://securitytemplate.site doesn't serve your content. Penultimate I also found that it's possible to takeover the PenultimateIO's Twitter account. It seems that you have deleted the account,...

Gustuff banking botnet targets Australia

Vitor Ventura authored this post. Executive summary Cisco Talos has uncovered a new Android-based campaign targeting Australian financial institutions. As the investigation progressed, Talos came to understand that this campaign was associated with the "ChristinaMorrow" text message spam scam...

Finding Weaknesses Before the Attackers Do

This blog post originally appeared as an article in M-Trends 2019. FireEye Mandiant red team consultants perform objectives-based assessments that emulate real cyber attacks by advanced and nation state attackers across the entire attack lifecycle by blending into environments and observing how...

ISeeYou - Bash And Javascript Tool To Find The Exact Location Of The Users During Social Engineering Or Phishing Engagements

ISeeYou is a Bash and Javascript tool to find the exact location of the users during social engineering or phishing engagements. Using exact location coordinates an attacker can perform preliminary reconnaissance which will help them in performing further targeted attacks. Note: This tool does no...

March Madness Scams Give Attackers Fast Break

With the 2019 NCAA tournament’s Final Four around the corner, researchers are urging viewers to be wary of a slew of March Madness-related phishing attacks, adware installers and other security threats. While security concerns regarding popular sporting events – from the World Cup to the Super Bo...

FortiSIEM LDAP server password reflected in admin portal

An information exposure vulnerability in the admin portal of FortiSIEM may allow an authenticated admin to retrieve the LDAP server password via the HTML source code. This could potentially aggravate attacks targeting the authenticated admin session, should they exist XSS, social engineering, pro...