Stop Spammers < 2021.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

The plugin did not escape user input when blocking requests such as matching a spam word, outputting it in an attribute after sanitising it to remove HTML tags, which is not sufficient and lead to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue. PoC From an IP not in the Allow List...

Spammers Smuggle LokiBot Via URL Obfuscation Tactic

Spammers have started using a tricky URL obfuscation technique that sidesteps detection – and ultimately infects victims with the LokiBot trojan. The tactic was uncovered in recent spear-phishing emails with PowerPoint attachments, which contain a malicious macro. When the PowerPoint file is...

Nextcloud: Email Spoofing

An SPF/DMARC record is a type of Domain Name Service DNS record that identifies which mail servers are permitted to send email on behalf of your domain. The purpose of an SPF/DMARC record is to prevent spammers from sending messages on the behalf of your organization. Remediation: Create a SPF...

Sextortion profits decline despite higher volume, new techniques

Post authored by Nick Biasini and Jaeson Schultz. Sextortion spammers continue blasting away at high volume. The success they experienced with several high-profile campaigns last year has led these attackers to continue transmitting massive amounts of sextortion email. These sextortion spammers...

Brave Software: DMARC RECORD MISSING

VULNERABILITY TYPE- DMARC RECORD MISSING. HOW TO REPRODUCEPOC-ATTACHED IMAGE:- 1.GO TO- https://mxtoolbox.com 2.ENTER THE WEBSITEbrave.org.CLICK GO. 3.YOU WILL SEE THE FAULTNo DMARC Record found 4.In the new page that loads change MXLookup to DMARCLookup I HAVE ALREADY INFORMEDD THEM.THEY TOLD TO...

Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months -- including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools, businesses and government buildings late last year -- were made possible thanks to an authentication...

Fake Bomb Threat Emails Demanding Bitcoins Sparked Chaos Across US, Canada

"Pay $20,000 worth of bitcoin, or a bomb will detonate in your building" A massive number of businesses, schools, government offices and individuals across the US, New Zealand and Canada on Thursday received bomb threats via emails that caused nationwide chaos, forcing widespread evacuations and...

Official Cardi B website plagued by spammers

We come bearing tidings of proper website maintenance and general housekeeping for singer Cardi B or rather, for her web development team. At first glance, it appeared as though her website had been hacked a few days ago. But a look under the hood told a different story. We were surprised to see...

Who’s Behind the Screencam Extortion Scam?

The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. Rather, it's likely that additional spammers and scammers piled on with...

Notorious ‘Hijack Factory’ Shunned from Web

Score one for the good guys: Bitcanal, a Portuguese Web hosting firm long accused of helping spammers hijack large swaths of dormant Internet address space over the years, was summarily kicked off the Internet this week after a half-dozen of the company's bandwidth providers chose to sever ties...

Beware! Fortnite Cheat Hijacks Gamers' PCs to Intercept HTTPS Traffic

If you are looking for Fortnite v-bucks generator, aimbot or any other game cheats—then beware—you might end up installing malware on your PC! Web-based game-streaming platform Rainway is reporting that tens of thousands of Fortnite players have inadvertently infected their systems with a piece o...

Instagram story spam claims free Apple Watch

I have to admit, I'm not 100 percent sure who Elton Castee is. "Who's that?" you ask? Digging around revealed that he's big on YouTube, has done some films, and raises money for dogs, which is very cool. He's also popular on Instagram, with 400k+ followers. With that in mind, we've seen a few...

Malicious PHP Script Infects 2,400 Websites in the Past Week

A botnet dubbed Brain Food is giving webmasters indigestion with related attacks that push bogus diet pills and IQ-boosting pills via web pages hosted on legitimate sites. So far, spammers have been successful, thanks to an effective Hypertext Preprocessor PHP script also called Brain Food that h...

Wave of Java-Based RATs Target Tax Filers

Spammers are spreading Java-based remote access Trojans, known as jRATs, targeting tax filers with attachments named “IRS Updates.jar” and “ImportantPDF.jar” that, if executed, give attackers access to compromised endpoints. Zscaler, which is tracking the jRATs, believes some of the campaigns cou...

Spammer's Arrest Puts End to Kelihos Botnet

The alleged Russian botmaster behind the Kelihos botnet was arrested while on vacation in Spain, putting an end to a seven-year cybercrime operation that foisted hundreds of millions of spam messages on consumers, as well as a dangerous array of banking malware and ransomware. Pyotr Levashov, als...

Stolen Yahoo Data Sold to Spammers, One Government Client

A database of one billion stolen Yahoo accounts has been sold to at least three different buyers for $300,000 each, and the group selling the data and behind the 2013 intrusion—the largest data breach on record—is a criminal operation, not a state-sponsored attack group as Yahoo claims. Andrew...

Nextcloud: No captcha on newsletter.nextcloudcom leaves vulnerable to email spammers

The lack of a captcah or verificationcodeX it's empty in your phplist configuration allows attackers to use this mail for to send as much spam as they like to victims. I did not reach an email sending limit when I had tested this. PoC images below: Burp suite automated requests:...

Bitcoin Cloud Mining Service Hacked; Database On Sale for Just 1 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Cloud Mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked and its whole users database is on sale for 1 Bitcoin. The unknown hackers have successfully taken full control of the website's server and defaced the homepage of the website. Users visiting the website are greeted with a defaced homepage...

QMTP Open Relay Test

The QMTP/QMQP server accepts relaying. Copyright C 2015 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute i...

Spammers Take A Liking to WhatsApp Mobile App

Spammers have settled in on the WhatsApp messaging platform with greater regularity, aided in one locale, by of all things, government regulations. Researchers at AdaptiveMobile yesterday published a report that exposed a number of spam campaigns peddling phony handbags and sunglasses, investment...