A week in security (May 10 – 16)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we watched and reported on the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack as developments of its story unfolded. This attack triggered the White House to refine a planned Executive Order on cybersecurity. We also profiled DarkSide, the ransomware responsible for the...

iPhone calendar spam attacks on the rise

Recently, we have seen an increasing number of reports from iPhone users about their calendars filling up with junk events. These events are most often either pornographic in nature, or claim that the device has been infected or hacked, and in all cases they contain malicious links. This phenomen...

Sifchain: No Valid SPF Records/don't have DMARC record

Hiii, There is any issue No valid SPF Records on https://sifchain.finance/ Desciprition : There is a email spoofing vulnerability.Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Email spoofing ...

CVE-2021-28585

Magento versions 2.4.2 and earlier, 2.4.1-p1 and earlier and 2.3.6-p1 and earlier are affected by an Improper input validation vulnerability in the New customer WebAPI.Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to send unsolicited spam e-mails...

PT-2021-3433 · Adobe · Magento

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Magento versions 2.4.2 and earlier Magento versions 2.4.1-p1 and earlier Magento versions 2.3.6-p1 and earlier Description: The issue is related to improper input validation in the New customer WebAPI, which could allow an attacker to send...

Sifchain: No Valid SPF Records at sifchain.finance

Hello, There is any issue No valid SPF Records Desciprition : There is a email spoofing vulnerability.Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Email spoofing is a tactic used in phishing...

New Study Warns of Security Threats Linked to Recycled Phone Numbers

A new academic study has highlighted a number of privacy and security pitfalls associated with recycling mobile phone numbers that could be abused to stage a variety of exploits, including account takeovers, conduct phishing and spam attacks, and even prevent victims from signing up for online...

New Panda Stealer Targets Cryptocurrency Wallets

In early April, we observed a new information stealer called Panda Stealer being delivered via spam emails. Based on Trend Micro's telemetry, United States, Australia, Japan, and Germany were among the most affected countries during a recent spam wave...

Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk < 5.153.4 - Unauthenticated Blind SQL Injection

It was possible to exploit an Unauthenticated Time-Based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in the Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk WordPress Plugin before 5.153.4. The updatelog function in lib/Cleantalk/ApbctWP/Firewall/SFW.php included a vulnerable query that could be injected v...

Water Pamola Attacked Online Shops Via Malicious Orders

Since 2019, we have been tracking a threat campaign we dubbed as “Water Pamola.” The campaign initially compromised e-commerce online shops in Japan, Australia, and European countries via spam emails with malicious attachments...

Spotlight on Cybercriminal Supply Chains

An examination of cybercrime ecosystems reveals it mirrors legitimate financial organization and market systems. “Cybercriminals need to move money and pay employees in their organization just like any other company,” said Derek Manky Chief Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’...

Telegram Platform Abused in 'ToxicEye' Malware Campaigns

Hackers are leveraging the popular Telegram messaging app by embedding its code inside a remote access trojan RAT dubbed ToxicEye, new research has found. A victim’s computer infected with the ToxicEye malware is controlled via a hacker-operated Telegram messaging account. The ToxicEye malware ca...

IBM i Resource Management Error Vulnerability

IBM i is a set of operating systems from IBM in the United States that run on IBM Power Systems and IBM PureSystems. A security vulnerability exists in IBM i SMTP, which can be exploited by an attacker to consume network bandwidth and disk space that may not be necessary and send spam...

CVE-2021-20501

IBM i 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 SMTP allows a network attacker to send emails to non-existent local-domain recipients to the SMTP server, caused by using a non-default configuration. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume unnecessary network bandwidth and disk space, and allow remot...

CVE-2021-20501

IBM i 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 SMTP allows a network attacker to send emails to non-existent local-domain recipients to the SMTP server, caused by using a non-default configuration. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume unnecessary network bandwidth and disk space, and allow remot...

Default configuration

IBM i 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 SMTP allows a network attacker to send emails to non-existent local-domain recipients to the SMTP server, caused by using a non-default configuration. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume unnecessary network bandwidth and disk space, and allow remot...

CVE-2021-20501

IBM i 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 SMTP allows a network attacker to send emails to non-existent local-domain recipients to the SMTP server, caused by using a non-default configuration. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume unnecessary network bandwidth and disk space, and allow remot...

CVE-2021-20501

CVE-2021-20501 affects IBM i SMTP on IBM i releases 7.1–7.4. The issue allows a network attacker to abuse non-default configuration to deliver email to non-existent local-domain recipients, consuming bandwidth and disk space and enabling spam. The underlying cause is in IBM i SMTP configuration. ...

Combatting Email Spam – What you should know

By Uzair Amir In this post, we will talk about emails that are considered spam and the most effective ways to eliminate them. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Combatting Email Spam - What you should know...

Security Bulletin: SMTP for IBM i is affected by CVE-2021-20501

Summary SMTP is used by IBM i. IBM i has addressed the applicable CVE. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-20501 DESCRIPTION: IBM i SMTP allows a network attacker to send emails to non-existent local-domain recipients to the SMTP server, caused by using a non-default configuration. An attacker...