Red Alert 2.0: New Android Banking Trojan for Sale on Hacking Forums

The Recent discoveries of dangerous variants of the Android banking Trojan families, including Faketoken, Svpeng, and BankBot, present a significant threat to online users who may have their login credentials and valuable personal data stolen. Security researchers from SfyLabs have now discovered...

Code injection

The Twitter iOS client versions 6.62 and 6.62.1 fail to validate Twitter's server certificates for the /1.1/help/settings.json configuration endpoint, permitting man-in-the-middle attackers the ability to view an application-only OAuth client token and potentially enable unreleased Twitter iOS ap...

CVE-2016-10511

The Twitter iOS client versions 6.62 and 6.62.1 fail to validate Twitter's server certificates for the /1.1/help/settings.json configuration endpoint, permitting man-in-the-middle attackers the ability to view an application-only OAuth client token and potentially enable unreleased Twitter iOS ap...

CVE-2016-10511

The Twitter iOS client versions 6.62 and 6.62.1 fail to validate Twitter's server certificates for the /1.1/help/settings.json configuration endpoint, permitting man-in-the-middle attackers the ability to view an application-only OAuth client token and potentially enable unreleased Twitter iOS ap...

CVE-2016-10511

The Twitter iOS client versions 6.62 and 6.62.1 fail to validate Twitter's server certificates for the /1.1/help/settings.json configuration endpoint, permitting man-in-the-middle attackers the ability to view an application-only OAuth client token and potentially enable unreleased Twitter iOS ap...

CVE-2016-10511

The CVE-2016-10511 entry affects Twitter iOS client versions 6.62 and 6.62.1, which fail to validate Twitter’s server certificates for the /1.1/help/settings.json endpoint. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to view an application-only OAuth client token and potentially enable unreleased Twi...

X (Formerly Twitter): Sensitive Information Disclosure https://cards-dev.twitter.com

Dear Twitter Team, While researching through one of your domain cards-dev.twitter.com i discovered that the host is disclosing sensitive information when a user browses to a specific directory https://cards-dev.twitter.com:443/keys/. The application downloads a file json.json which discloses the...

Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation

I awoke this morning to find my account on Twitter @briankrebs had attracted almost 12,000 new followers overnight. Then I noticed I'd gained almost as many followers as the number of re-tweets RTs earned for a tweet I published on Tuesday. The tweet stated how every time I tweet something relate...

SQLMap v1.1.8 - Automatic SQL Injection And Database Takeover Tool

SQLMap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lastin...

X (Formerly Twitter): Opportunity to obtain private tweets through search widget preview caches

The search widget functionality at https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/new uses ██████████ to show search results. Issue here is that ████ seems to be caching the results, despite of no-cache request header and I can force ██████ to show me the cached results. So, if their is a user x who decide...

Announcing the Fourth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The fourth annual Flare-On Challenge – the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team’s yearly reverse engineering contest – is scheduled to kick off on Sept. 1, 2017, at 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security...

Announcing the Fourth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The fourth annual Flare-On Challenge – the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team’s yearly reverse engineering contest – is scheduled to kick off on Sept. 1, 2017, at 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security...

Beware of Windows/MacOS/Linux Virus Spreading Through Facebook Messenger

If you came across any Facebook message with a video link sent by anyone, even your friend — just don’t click on it. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted an ongoing cross-platform campaign on Facebook Messenger, where users receive a video link that redirects them to a fake website,...

Visit Trend Micro at VMworld 2017

Trend Micro will be at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas on August 27th – 31st, showing why experience matters when it comes to automated security for your data center and cloud environments. Stop by our booth, 610, to chat with our security experts, and enter our daily draws to win a Phantom 3 Drone! Se...

This Week in Security News

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. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Game of Thrones and HBO — Twitter, Facebook Accounts Hacked

The Game of Thrones hacking saga continues, but this time it's the HBO's and GOT's official Twitter and Facebook accounts got compromised, rather than upcoming episodes. As if the leak of episodes by hackers and the accidental airing of an upcoming episode of Game of Thrones by HBO itself were no...

WannaCry hero back on Twitter after pleading not guilting over Kronos

By Waqas He is not allowed to access the Kill Switch he This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WannaCry hero back on Twitter after pleading not guilting over Kronos...

Blizzard Entertainment Hit With Weekend DDoS Attack

Blizzard Entertainment reported a crippling DDoS attack over the weekend creating chronic latency and connection issues for players of games Overwatch, World of Warcraft and others. The DDoS attack has since subsided, according to Blizzard, but users are still grousing on Twitter over lingering...

Cleaning up my GOPATH with Homebrew

tl;dr: use the script at the bottom to go get into the Homebrew "Cellar" and keep your GOPATH clean. I personally like GOPATH and import paths, but while trying to reduce my laptop to a thin reproducible client, I felt the pain of keeping track of the hundreds of repositories that end up in there...

Cleaning up my GOPATH with Homebrew

tl;dr: use the script at the bottom to go get into the Homebrew "Cellar" and keep your GOPATH clean. I personally like GOPATH and import paths, but while trying to reduce my laptop to a thin reproducible client, I felt the pain of keeping track of the hundreds of repositories that end up in there...