Beware fake Facebook emails saying "your page has been disabled"

Facebook users need to be on their guard for bogus emails claiming to be from Facebook, that tell users their account has been disabled. The emails make use of the classic "apply some pressure" tactics so beloved of scammers everywhere. A missive that makes you shrug wont get you clicking bogus...

$800,000 recovered from Business Email Compromise attack

We continue to see the damaging repercussions of business email compromise BEC impacting organisations across the US and elsewhere. The Houston Chronicle reports that law enforcement seized $800,000 from a bank account used for pillaging funds from a construction management company. The attack BE...

Reddit Suffers Security Breach Exposing Internal Documents and Source Code

Popular social news aggregation platform Reddit has disclosed that it was the victim of a security incident that enabled unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. The company blamed it on a "sophisticated and...

Update your LearnPress plugins now!

Its time for a reminder to ensure all of your WordPress plugins are fully up to date or removed, if you don't need them. Bleeping Computer reports that as many as 75,000 WordPress sites may be open to several flaws in a plugin called LearnPress. Worse, the update tally for users of the plugin isn...

LinkedIn: bypass two-factor authentication.

Vulnerability description not provided...

A Secure User Authentication Method – Planning is More Important than Ever

When considering authentication providers, many organizations consider the ease of configuration, ubiquity of usage, and technical stability. Organizations cannot always be judged on those metrics alone. There is an increasing need to evaluate company ownership, policies and the stability, or...

CVE-2023-22958

The Syracom Secure Login plugin before 3.1.1.0 for Jira may allow spoofing of 2FA PIN validation via the plugins/servlet/twofactor/public/pinvalidation target parameter...

CVE-2023-22958

The Syracom Secure Login plugin before 3.1.1.0 for Jira may allow spoofing of 2FA PIN validation via the plugins/servlet/twofactor/public/pinvalidation target parameter...

PT-2023-18799 · Syracom +1 · Syracom Secure Login +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Syracom Secure Login plugin versions prior to 3.1.1.0 for Jira Description: The issue allows spoofing of 2FA PIN validation via the "plugins/servlet/twofactor/public/pinvalidation" target parameter. This may enable unauthorized access by...

GitHub Announces Free Secret Scanning for All Public Repositories

GitHub on Thursday said it is making available its secret scanning service to all public repositories on the code hosting platform for free. "Secret scanning alerts notify you directly about leaked secrets in your code," the company said, adding it's expected to complete the rollout by the end of...

Apple announces 3 new security features

Apple has announced three new security features focused on protecting user data in the cloud: iMessage Contact Key Verification, Security Keys for Apple ID, and Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. iMessage Contact Key Verification and Security Keys for Apple ID will be available globally in 2023...

Apple Boosts Security With New iMessage, Apple ID, and iCloud Protections

Apple on Wednesday announced a raft of security measures, including an Advanced Data Protection setting that enables end-to-end encrypted E2EE data backups in its iCloud service. The headlining feature, when turned on, is expected to secure 23 data categories using E2EE, including device and...

Iranian State Hackers Targeting Key Figures in Activism, Journalism, and Politics

Hackers with ties to the Iranian government have been linked to an ongoing social engineering and credential phishing campaign directed against human rights activists, journalists, researchers, academics, diplomats, and politicians working in the Middle East. At least 20 individuals are believed ...

Telecom and BPO Companies Under Attack by SIM Swapping Hackers

A persistent intrusion campaign has set its eyes on telecommunications and business process outsourcing BPO companies at lease since June 2022. "The end objective of this campaign appears to be to gain access to mobile carrier networks and, as evidenced in two investigations, perform SIM swapping...

Watch out for this triple threat PayPal phish

ZDNet reports an interesting form of PayPal scam sent to one of their own writers. The scam is a so-called "triple threat" phish, in that it gives the scammer three different ways to potentially collect some ill gotten gains from potential victims. The idea is that if one of the three tactics...

WordPress miniOrange Two-Factor Authentication plugin <= 5.6.1 - Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability

Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability discovered by Calvin Alkan in WordPress miniOrange Two-Factor Authentication plugin versions = 5.6.1. Solution Update the WordPress miniOrange's Google Authenticator plugin to the latest available version at least 5.6.2...

Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System

Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system: Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token to secure their Twitter account may not have reason to test the...

Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down

Problems with the important security feature may be some of the first signs that Elon Musk’s social network is fraying at the edges...

Over 15,000 WordPress Sites Compromised in Malicious SEO Campaign

A new malicious campaign has compromised over 15,000 WordPress websites in an attempt to redirect visitors to bogus Q&A portals. "These malicious redirects appear to be designed to increase the authority of the attacker's sites for search engines," Sucuri researcher Ben Martin said in a report...

Evilgophish - Evilginx2 + Gophish

Combination of evilginx2 and GoPhish. Credits Before I begin, I would like to say that I am in no way bashing Kuba Gretzky and his work. I thank him personally for releasing evilginx2 to the public. In fact, without his work this work would not exist. I must also thank Jordan Wright for...