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U.S. Manufacturer Most Recent Target of LokiBot Malspam Campaign
The well-known LokiBot malware has popped up in several malicious spam campaigns over the past year, covertly siphoning information from victims’ compromised endpoints. Researchers this week are warning of the most recent sighting of the malware, which was recently spotted in spam messages...
PsiXBot Adds PornModule, Google DNS Service to Its Arsenal
The PsiXBot malware has made a few changes in recent weeks, including implementing Google’s DNS over HTTPS DoH and adding the blackmail-ready “PornModule” to its bag of tricks. PsiXBot is a multi-use Windows malware that has a range of capabilities, including keylogging, stealing passwords and...
This Week in Security News: New Zero-Day Vulnerability Findings and Mobile Phishing Scams
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how music festival goers need to be on guard for phishing attacks when trying to find a lost iPhone. Also, read how Trend Micro...
CB Threat Analysis Unit Technical Breakdown: GermanWiper Ransomware
Editor's Note: The TAU-TIN related to this write up can be located here. GermanWiper Ransomware was found distributed via spam email campaign in Germany. It’s a data-wiping malware and the ransom note was written in German language. The malware pretends to be ransomware but is actually a wiper th...
Leaky Server Exposes 419M Phone Numbers of Facebook Users
Phone numbers linked to the Facebook accounts of hundreds of millions of users has been found online on an insecure server in the latest privacy gaffe for the social media giant. The server, which lacked password protection, contained more than 419 million records over several databases of Facebo...
CVE-2019-12635
A vulnerability in the authorization module of Cisco Content Security Management Appliance SMA Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain out-of-scope access to email. The vulnerability exists because the affected software does not correctly implement role permission controls...
CVE-2019-12635
A vulnerability in the authorization module of Cisco Content Security Management Appliance SMA Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain out-of-scope access to email. The vulnerability exists because the affected software does not correctly implement role permission controls...
Authorization
A vulnerability in the authorization module of Cisco Content Security Management Appliance SMA Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain out-of-scope access to email. The vulnerability exists because the affected software does not correctly implement role permission controls...
Spam In your Calendar? Here’s What to Do.
Many spam trends are cyclical: Spammers tend to switch tactics when one method of hijacking your time and attention stops working. But periodically they circle back to old tricks, and few spam trends are as perennial as calendar spam, in which invitations to click on dodgy links show up unbidden ...
Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming
Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct, an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the charges are...
Spam and phishing in Q2 2019
Quarterly highlights Spam through Google services In the second quarter of 2019, scammers were making active use of cloud-based data storage services such as Google Drive and Google Storage to hide their illegal content. The reasoning behind this is simple: a link from a legitimate domain is seen...
WordPress limit-attempts plugin SQL injection vulnerability
WordPress is a blogging platform developed by the WordPress Foundation using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blogs on PHP and MySQL servers. limit-attempts is a website security plugin that targets spam and brute-force attacks. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the WordPres...
SmokeDetector Code Execution Vulnerability
SmokeDetector is a program that detects spam and posts links to chat rooms. A security vulnerability exists in SmokeDetector. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute code...
CVE-2018-20951
cPanel before 68.0.27 allows self XSS in WHM Spamd Startup Config SEC-387...
CVE-2019-14404
cPanel before 78.0.18 allows certain file-read operations in the context of the root account via the Exim virtualuserspam router SEC-484...
Popular File-Sharing Service WeTransfer Used in Malicious Spam Campaigns
Hackers are abusing the popular file-sharing service called WeTransfer to circumvent defensive email gateways that are designed to block spam messages with malicious URLs. Researchers have observed an uptick in attacks targeting banking, power and media industries using this technique. The hack...
Malware Loader ‘Brushaloader’ Grows More Menacing
The tenacious loader malware called Brushaloader is growing more menacing, showing no signs of abatement despite best efforts by security professionals. First identified in June 2018, the Brushaloader malware is now more pervasive, stealthy and growing in popularity faster than ever before. New...
This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Mobile Malware
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a mobile malware that infects Android devices by exploiting the vulnerabilities found within the operating system. Also, read...
A week in security (July 8 – 14)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at ways to send your sensitive information in a secure fashion, examined some tactics in incident response land, and explored federal data privacy law. We also looked at how security tools can turn against you, and took a deep dive into the rather fiendis...
