Shining a Light on OAuth Abuse with PwnAuth

Introduction Spear phishing attacks are seen as one of the biggest cyber threats to an organization. It only takes one employee to enter their credentials or run some malware for an entire organization to become compromised. As such, companies devote significant resources to preventing credential...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast for May 18

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss the week’s information security news, including some interesting new malware, a Linux patch that made waves, social engineering gambits and a major banking theft from the second-largest economy in Latin America...

Misconfigured Reverse Proxy Servers Spill Credentials

Researchers have created a proof-of-concept attack that allows unauthenticated adversaries to extract user credentials from misconfigured reverse proxy servers in order to delete, manipulate or extract data from websites and applications. The proof-of-concept PoC attack targets major cloud...

SA149: CSRF Vulnerability in CA and MTD

SUMMARY The Symantec Content Analysis CA and Mail Threat Defense MTD management consoles are susceptible to a cross-site request forging CSRF vulnerability. A remote attacker can use phishing or other social engineering techniques to access the management console with the privileges of an...

HackerOne: People who interviewed for HackerOne security analyst position can be enumerated and their personal email address may be exposed

Summary: It's possible to gather basic information on potential employees at the very least who interviewed via old sample reports not being removed from the program Description: This report is meant to provide awareness of potentially private data being accessed by potential candidates. When giv...

FBI Releases Article on Digital Defense Against ID Theft

FBI has released an article on building a digital defense against identify theft. FBI explains that the growing number of data breaches put more people at risk of becoming a victim of identity theft. However, implementing basic security practices can help users minimize their risk. NCCIC encourag...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5172

The Live Bookmarks page and the PDF viewer can run injected script content if a user pastes script from the clipboard into them while viewing RSS feeds or PDF files. This could allow a malicious site to socially engineer a user to copy and paste malicious script content that could then run with t...

New Facebook-Spread Malware Triggers Credential Theft, Cryptomining

A new malware campaign rapidly spreading via Facebook is infecting victims’ systems to steal their social media credentials and download cryptomining code. The malware, dubbed Nigelthorn by the Radware researchers who first discovered it, is being propagated via socially engineered links on...

Enhancing Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection with detonation-based heuristics and machine learning

Email, coupled with reliable social engineering techniques, continues to be one of the primary entry points for credential phishing, targeted attacks, and commodity malware like ransomware and, increasingly in the last few months, cryptocurrency miners. Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection ATP...

CVE-2018-5172

The Live Bookmarks page and the PDF viewer can run injected script content if a user pastes script from the clipboard into them while viewing RSS feeds or PDF files. This could allow a malicious site to socially engineer a user to copy and paste malicious script content that could then run with t...

Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability

Microsoft Exchange Server is a set of e-mail service programs from Microsoft, which provides e-mail access, storage, forwarding, voice mail, e-mail filtering and screening. A spoofing vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 8 and 9, which stems from Outlook Web...

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Exchange Outlook Web Access OWA fails to properly handle web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could perform script/content injection attacks and attempt to trick the user into disclosing sensitive...

FBI Releases IC3 2017 Internet Crime Report

FBI has released the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 2017 Internet Crime Report, which highlights scams trending online. The top three crime types reported by victims in 2017 were non-payment/non-delivery, personal data breach, and phishing. Hot topics for 2017 include ransomware, business...

Internet Shortcut used in Necurs malspam campaign

The Necurs botnet continues to be one of the most prolific malicious spam distributors, with regular waves of carefully-crafted attachments that are used to download malware. The majority of malspam campaigns that we track are targeting Microsoft Office with documents containing either macros or...

Man Climbs Severn Bridge. Your office is twice as easy and half as scary

So you think no one would ever sneak into your business? Think Again. The man who climbed the Severn Bridge and broke into the Big Brother house seems to have method to his madness. Here’s why. When I describe Social Engineering to some I get a common response: “Yeah, but who would ever do that i...

Lantech IDS 2102

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit. Vendor : Lantech Equipment : IDS 2102 Vulnerabilities : Improper Input Validation, Stack-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker...

A New Cryptocurrency Mining Virus is Spreading Through Facebook

If you receive a link for a video, even if it looks exciting, sent by someone or your friend on Facebook messenger—just don't click on it without taking a second thought. Cybersecurity researchers from Trend Micro are warning users of a malicious Chrome extension which is spreading through Facebo...

Rubella Crimeware Kit: Cheap, Easy and Gaining Traction

A crimeware kit dubbed the Rubella Macro Builder is betting on a “dirty deeds done dirt cheap” approach to gain popularity in the criminal underground. The kit does two things: with a point-and-click builder functionality, it generates an initial malware payload for social-engineering spam...

Delta Electronics PMSoft

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.1 ATTENTION : Low skill level to exploit. Vendor : Delta Electronics Equipment : PMSoft Vulnerabilities : Multiple Stack-Based Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash;...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2906

An exploitable integer overflow exists in the animation playing functionality of the Blender open-source 3d creation suite version 2.78c. A specially created '.avi' file can cause an integer overflow resulting in a buffer overflow which can allow for code execution under the context of the...