Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions affected by multiple vulnerabilities in IBM JRE (Multiple CVEs)

Summary IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions is shipped with two IBM JREs that are based on Oracle Java. It is also dependent on ITM 6.2.1 Framework, which also has it own JRE. Oracle has released a January 2014 Critical Patch Update CPU that contains security vulnerability...

Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions is affected by vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (CVE-2013-4353, CVE-2013-6450 and CVE-2013-6449)

Summary Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Vulnerability Details CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4353 DESCRIPTION: A carefully crafted invalid TLS handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception. A malicious server could use this flaw to crash a connecting client. This issue...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows affects IBM PureData System for Transactions (CVE-2014-6209, CVE-2014-6210, CVE-2014-8901)

Summary Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in IBM DB2® shipped with IBM PureData™ System for Transactions. Vulnerability Details CVE ID: CVE-2014-6209 DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 contains a denial of service vulnerability. A remote, authenticated DB2 user could exploit this vulnerability by...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Diffie-Hellman ciphers affects IBM Datapower Gateways (CVE-2015-4000)

Summary The Logjam Attack on TLS connections using the Diffie-Hellman DH key exchange protocol affects IBM Datapower Gateways. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-4000 DESCRIPTION: The TLS protocol could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to properly...

Apple Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From Its App Stores

Due to the surge in cryptocurrency prices, not only hackers but also legitimate websites and mobile apps are increasingly using cryptocurrency miners to monetize by levying the CPU power of your PC and phones to mine cryptocurrencies. However, Apple wants to protect your Mac and iPhone battery fr...

Code injection

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0, 12.0.0-12.1.2, 11.6.1-11.6.3.1, 11.5.1-11.5.5, or 11.2.1, when processing DIAMETER transactions with carefully crafted attribute-value pairs, TMM may crash...

CVE-2018-5522

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0, 12.0.0-12.1.2, 11.6.1-11.6.3.1, 11.5.1-11.5.5, or 11.2.1, when processing DIAMETER transactions with carefully crafted attribute-value pairs, TMM may crash...

Latin American ‘Biñeros’ Bond Over Fraudulent Purchase Scheme

A type of card-not-present fraud is spreading throughout the Latin American underground, uniting groups of malefactors in a communal effort to perpetrate it as widely and as often as possible. Cybercriminals in the region are making use of problems in the validation process for bank identificatio...

Mexico’s Banking System Sees $18M Siphoned Off in Phantom Transactions

Somewhere between $18 million to $20 million has gone missing during unauthorized interbank money transfers in Mexico’s central banking system. Authorities are investigating the shadow transactions, but answers are thus far scarce. The affected banks and government officials are determining wheth...

First-Ever Ransomware Found Using 'Process Doppelgänging' Attack to Evade Detection

Security researchers have spotted the first-ever ransomware exploiting Process Doppelgänging, a new fileless code injection technique that could help malware evade detection. The Process Doppelgänging attack takes advantage of a built-in Windows function, i.e., NTFS Transactions, and an outdated...

First-Ever Ransomware Found Using 'Process Doppelgänging' Attack to Evade Detection

Security researchers have spotted the first-ever ransomware exploiting Process Doppelgänging , a new fileless code injection technique that could help malware evade detection. The Process Doppelgänging attack takes advantage of a built-in Windows function, i.e., NTFS Transactions, and an outdated...

SynAck targeted ransomware uses the Doppelgänging technique

The Process Doppelgänging technique was first presented in December 2017 at the BlackHat conference. Since the presentation several threat actors have started using this sophisticated technique in an attempt to bypass modern security solutions. In April 2018, we spotted the first ransomware...

Securing financial data of the future: behavioral biometrics explained

Some of us would be pretty excited about a brave, new passwordless world. Gone would be the days of having to write down 27 passwords and post them beside monitor screens. Or having to yell them out loud to a colleague on the other side of the room. For banks and other financial institutions, a...

HPSBGN03565 rev.1 - Unsecure (http) Transactions in Isaac Mizrahi Smartwatch Mobile App

Potential Security Impact Potential theft of credentials and UI hijack Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported by: Jerry Decime VULNERABILITY SUMMARY A potential security vulnerability caused by the use of unsecure http transactions during login has been identified with early...

Coin Mining Malware and What Akamai Can do About It

It has been a busy few months for crypto-mining! The advent of cryptocurrency1 has resulted in a rollercoaster ride of interest in the last 18 months, with millions of people making and losing millions in physical currency. Through all of this, cryptocurrency has been a heavy target for...

Streamline Compliance with SWIFT Customer Security Program Requirements

Transferring money from our bank accounts has never been easier than it is today. With a single click on our smartphones, we can transfer money from a bank account in New York to an account at a different bank in the Netherlands. This advancement is largely a result of the fluent communication...

Breaking the Anonymity in the Cryptocurrency Monero

Researchers have exploited a flaw in the cryptocurrency Monero to break the anonymity of transactions. Research paper. BoingBoing post...

Who and What Is Coinhive?

Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users, thanks to the tendency for Coinhive's computer code to be used on hacked Web sites to steal the processing power of its visitors' devices. This post looks at how Coinhive...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

bitcoinj-core is vulnerable to denial-of-service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists as it does not check for the amount of transactions being parsed, allowing attackers to send trillions of transactions as inputs to cause a DoS attack...

TrickBot Variant Steals Bitcoin by Hijacking Cryptocurrency Transactions

By Waqas Another day, another malware - This time TrickBot's variant is This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: TrickBot Variant Steals Bitcoin by Hijacking Cryptocurrency Transactions...