WHO COVID-19 Mobile App: Improper Input Validation on User's Location on PUT /WhoService/putLocation Could Affect Availability/Falsify Users

Summary: Note: I noticed that that the team has fixed issues like an XSS that's caused only from a header value typically OOS since it's not directly exploitable https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/app/pull/855, so in the spirit of this I'm also reporting another "good-to-fix" issue. On th...

Spearphishing Campaign Exploits COVID-19 To Spread Lokibot Infostealer

Researchers have discovered threat actors once again capitalizing on the COVID-19 pandemic and current attention on the World Health Organization WHO with a new spearphishing email designed to spread the LokiBot trojan sent using the WHO trademark as a lure. Researchers at FortiGuard Labs on Marc...

WHO COVID-19 Mobile App: Probably unexploitable XSS via Header Injection

Summary: The Who-Platform header is reflected in the output of the page if it's not one of the recognized Who-Platform values IOS, ANDROID, WEB. While this is probably no longer exploitable as of 2015, it may be exploitable on less well implemented browsers not Chrome/Firefox/Edge. In general,...

Top Email Protections Fail in Latest COVID-19 Phishing Campaign

Threat actors continue to capitalize on fears surrounding the spread of the COVID-19 virus through a surge in new phishing campaigns that use spoofing tactics to effectively evade Proofpoint and Microsoft Office 365 advanced threat protections ATPs, researchers have found. The Cofense Phishing...

Hackers are actively targeting WHO amid Coronavirus pandemic

By Deeba Ahmed From phishing, malware and ransomware to identity theft; hackers are actively targeting WHO amid Coronavirus pandemic. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers are actively targeting WHO amid Coronavirus pandemic...

A week in security (March 16 – 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we concluded our series on child identity theft. We also looked into threat actors and campaigns that ride the COVID-19 train, namely the criminal group APT36 and threat actors purporting to be the World Health Organization WHO but instead spreading malware. Lastly...

Fake Coronavirus ‘Vaccine’ Website Busted in DoJ Takedown

The Department of Justice has raised its first federal court action against online fraud relating to the coronavirus pandemic, on Sunday taking steps to shutter a fraudulent website that claimed to give away free coronavirus vaccines. The website, “coronavirusmedicalkit.com,” was purporting to gi...

Fake Coronavirus ‘Vaccine’ Website Busted in DoJ Takedown

The Department of Justice has raised its first federal court action against online fraud relating to the coronavirus pandemic, on Sunday taking steps to shutter a fraudulent website that claimed to give away free coronavirus vaccines. The website, “coronavirusmedicalkit.com,” was purporting to gi...

Revamped HawkEye Keylogger Swoops in on Coronavirus Fears

There’s a new variant of the HawkEye keylogging malware making the rounds, featuring expanded info-stealing capabilities. Its operators are looking to capture the zeitgeist around the novel coronavirus. It’s being distributed using spam that purports to be an “alert” from the Director-General of...

Cybercriminals impersonate World Health Organization to distribute fake coronavirus e-book

The number of scams, threats, and malware campaigns taking advantage of public concern over the coronavirus is increasing each day. As a result, we've been actively monitoring emails within our spam honeypot to flag such threats and make sure our users are protected. Yesterday, we observed a...

Battling online coronavirus scams with facts

Panic and confusion about the recent coronavirus outbreak spurred threat actors to launch several malware campaigns across the world, relying on a tried-and-true method to infect people’s machines: fear. Cybercriminals targeted users in Japan with an Emotet campaign that included malicious Word...

jenkins: Diagnostic web page exposed Cookie HTTP header

Jenkins 2.196 and earlier, LTS 2.176.3 and earlier printed the value of the "Cookie" HTTP request header on the /whoAmI/ URL, allowing attackers exploiting another XSS vulnerability to obtain the HTTP session cookie despite it being marked HttpOnly...

Volunteering with Girls Who Code

Volunteering with Girls Who Code has been one of the most enriching and edifying experiences of my time here at Akamai. I was chosen to serve as a mentor to one of the high school students, gave the NOCC tour...

Information Disclosure

virt-who is vulnerable to information disclosure. Excessive permissions on the /etc/sysconfig/virt-who file allows any local users to read the contents and retrieve confidential information such as the password for hypervisors...

Meet the teen who won Technovation 2017

This summer Akamai hosted Girls Who Code for its fourth year in a row. Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. This is a spotlight article on one of the Girls Who Code participants, Aruzhan Koshkarova. Aruzhan, along wi...

Akamai mentors next generations of girls in tech

This summer Akamai hosted Girls Who Code for its fourth year in a row. Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. Akamai sponsored the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion program this past summer by providing the facilities an...

A week in security (October 8 – 14)

Last week, we warned you away from some dubious Doctor Who streams, explained how Endpoint Detection and Response may not be enough, and explored what happens during a confusing supply chain story. We also showed you how to keep up with security, explained the risks of fake browser updates, and...

Avoid these Doctor Who Series 11 scams

The new season of Doctor Who has finally landed on television screens around the world, and we’ve started to see the first few signs of spam and other assorted nonsense lumbering online. A rash of YouTube accounts claiming to offer up the new series are making the rounds, all of which generally...

IBM Maximo Asset Management Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-18009)

IBM Maximo Asset Management is a comprehensive asset lifecycle and maintenance management solution from IBM USA. The solution is capable of managing all types of assets, such as facilities, transportation, etc., on a single platform with a single point of control for these assets. An information...

Akamai Welcomes Girls Who Code

Akamai employees in Cambridge have started to see some new faces around the office for the summer - 20+ high school juniors to be specific! For the fourth consecutive year, Akamai is partnering with Girls Who Code to host a seven-week long summer immersion program dedicated to closing the gender...