SMS group spam promises free gifts in return for bill payment

We’re seeing lots of examples of peculiar SMS messages sent to random groups of people. Most of these messages promise free gifts and/or offers after having paid bills. Nobody has asked for these texts, and they’re not being sent by providers of any services. What’s going on? The set up Most of t...

Emotet modules and recent attacks

Emotet was first found in the wild in 2014. Back then its main functionality was stealing user banking credentials. Since then it has survived numerous transformations, started delivering other malware and finally became a powerful botnet. In January 2021 Emotet was disrupted by a joint effort of...

Steer clear of this “TestNTrace” SMS spam

Yesterday I received an SMS from “TestNTrace”, with the message resembling an official NHS communication: The text reads as follows: NHS: You’ve been in close contact with a person who has contracted the Omicron variant. Please order a test kit via: URL redacted Well, that’s an alarming thing to...

CVE-2022-0949 WP Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.930 - Unauthenticated SQLi

The Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 6.930 does not properly sanitise and escape the fingerprint parameter before using it in a SQL statement via the stopbadbotsgravafingerprint AJAX action, available to unauthenticated users,...

Fedora: Security Advisory for unrealircd (FEDORA-2022-f6d46280da)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: unrealircd-6.0.3-1.fc35

UnrealIRCd is an Open Source IRC server based on the branch of IRCu called Dreamforge, formerly used by the DALnet IRC network. Since the beginning of development on UnrealIRCd in May of 1999, it has become a highly advanced IRCd with a strong focus on modularity, an advanced and highly...

A week in security (March 28 – April 3)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: New UAC-0056 activity: There’s a Go Elephant in the room Globant suffers network breach due to LAPSUS$ compromise Update now! Apple patches two zero-day vulnerabilities that may have been actively exploited Hive ransomware impacts California non-profit health...

WordPress OOPSpam Anti-Spam plugin <= 1.1.16 - SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability

SQL Injection SQLi vulnerability discovered in WordPress OOPSpam Anti-Spam plugin versions = 1.1.16. Solution Update the WordPress OOPSpam Anti-Spam plugin to the latest available version at least 1.1.17...

Phishers make a date with your calendar apps

Calendars are a rich source of bad behaviour for scammers and spammers. They’re one of the most prolific tools the workplace has for collaborative actions and general cross-purpose messaging. They’ve been misused by bad actors for many years now, most commonly spamming unwary potential victims an...

Fedora: Security Advisory for unrealircd (FEDORA-2022-47da296f2b)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2022-032

This module provides integration with the CleanTalk spam protection service. The module does not properly filter data in certain circumstances. Update: 2022-03-31 - fix release node links...

Reflected XSS in Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk

Update - after this article was published, Denis Shagimuratov of CleanTalk reached out to us on Twitter. It appears that they didnt receive our disclosure because our contact at the company was no longer the correct recipient for this type of issue. On February 15, 2022, the Wordfence Threat...

“A little gift for you” SMS spam appears to come from your own phone number

If youve received a spam SMS message sent from your own phone number, dont panic. No, you werent hacked. And youre not the only one who has received such a message, which looks a bit like this: A colleague received this same spam SMS message that has been going around more frequently these past f...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: unrealircd-6.0.2-1.fc35

UnrealIRCd is an Open Source IRC server based on the branch of IRCu called Dreamforge, formerly used by the DALnet IRC network. Since the beginning of development on UnrealIRCd in May of 1999, it has become a highly advanced IRCd with a strong focus on modularity, an advanced and highly...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: unrealircd-5.2.4-1.fc34

UnrealIRCd is an Open Source IRC server based on the branch of IRCu called Dreamforge, formerly used by the DALnet IRC network. Since the beginning of development on UnrealIRCd in May of 1999, it has become a highly advanced IRCd with a strong focus on modularity, an advanced and highly...

Anti-Spam by CleanTalk - Moderately critical - SQL Injection - SA-CONTRIB-2022-032

This module provides integration with the CleanTalk spam protection service. The module does not properly filter data in certain circumstances. Update: 2022-03-31 - fix release node links...

Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk < 5.174.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not not sanitise and escape the page parameter brief outputting it back in attributes in the /wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=ctcheckspam and Users list dashboard, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues...

CVE-2022-0787

The Limit Login Attempts Spam Protection WordPress plugin before 5.1 does not sanitise and escape some parameters before using them in SQL statements via AJAX actions available to unauthenticated users, leading to SQL Injections...

Fedora: Security Advisory for unrealircd (FEDORA-2022-0bff4ccd3b)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: unrealircd-6.0.2-1.fc36

UnrealIRCd is an Open Source IRC server based on the branch of IRCu called Dreamforge, formerly used by the DALnet IRC network. Since the beginning of development on UnrealIRCd in May of 1999, it has become a highly advanced IRCd with a strong focus on modularity, an advanced and highly...