PT-2018-14016 · Phonepe · Phonepe

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PhonePe wallet aka com.PhonePe.app versions 3.0.6 through 3.3.26 Description: The issue might allow attackers to impersonate a user and set up their account without their knowledge. To exploit this, the user has to explicitly install a...

CVE-2018-17401: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

The PhonePe wallet aka com.PhonePe.app application 3.0.6 through 3.3.26 for Android might allow attackers to perform Account Takeover attacks by exploiting its Forgot Password feature. NOTE: the vendor says that, to exploit this, the user has to explicitly install a malicious app and provide...

Guangdong New Express Media Development Co., Ltd.'s Guangdong Headline APP suffers from ultra vires access vulnerability

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Someone Hijacked MEGA Chrome Extension to Steal Users' Passwords

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SQL Injection Vulnerability in Haitong Blockchain Trading Platform

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John McAfee backed Bitfi wallet pwned again

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Hacking the Bitfi Part 5: MITM transactions

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Hacking the Bitfi. Part 2: John McAfee’s video

The unhackable Bitfi story isn't going away any time soon. Following John McAfee's tweet yesterday that he would put out a "definitive video countering all of the nonsense claims instigated and co-coordinated by BirFi's sic established, monolithic competitors in the hardware wallet space" here's ...

Hacking the Bitfi. Part 1

A large number of security researchers have taken exception to the ‘unhackable’ claims made by Bitfi and John McAfee about the security of their hardware cryptocurrency wallet. The $100K bounty offered appears to be something of sham, given it covers a very, very specific scenario. Bitfi states...

KICKICO Hacked: Cybercriminal Steals $7.7 Million from ICO Platform

Again some bad news for cryptocurrency users. KICKICO, a blockchain-based initial coin offering ICO support platform, has fallen victim to a suspected cyber attack and lost more than 70 million KICK tokens or KickCoins worth an estimated $7.7 million. In a statement released on its Medium post on...

In cryptoland, trust can be costly

While the legal status of cryptocurrencies and laws to regulate them continue to be hammered out, scammers are busy exploiting the digital gold rush. Besides hacking cryptocurrency exchanges, exploiting smart-contract vulnerabilities, and deploying malicious miners, cybercriminals are also...

Monero: Attcker can trick monero wallet into reporting it recived twice as much with alternative tx_keypubs

Summary: multiple identical txpubkeys were patched, but you can still use alternative txpubkeys to get the same result. Description: An attacker can craft an XMR transaction which causes the receiving wallet to report that it received twice as much XMR as the attacker actually sent. The balance o...

Monero: A bug in the Monero wallet balance can enable theft from exchanges

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Monero: Misreporting of received amount by show_transfers

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Hackers Stole Over $20 Million in Ethereum from Insecurely Configured Clients

Security researchers have been warning about cybercriminals who have made over 20 million dollars in just past few months by hijacking insecurely configured Ethereum nodes exposed on the Internet. Qihoo 360 Netlab in March tweeted about a group of cybercriminals who were scanning the Internet for...

Siaberry 1.2.2 - Command Injection

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Syndicate Wallet hacked; $10 million dollars stolen

By Uzair Amir Shopin, the first universal shopper profile offering the most personal This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Syndicate Wallet hacked; $10 million dollars stolen...

Monero: Trusted daemon check fails when proxied through torsocks or proxychains

Summary: If torsocks1 or proxychains1 is enforced when using Monero wallet with a remote node without explicit --untrusted-daemon arguments given, the application will assume the daemon is trusted. Description: By default, the wallet checks if the daemon address can be trusted by calling...

Attackers Cashing In On Cryptocurrency With Increased Scams

As the popularity around cryptocurrency has continued to boom in 2018, it has also tempting target for cash-hungry scammers to launch “cryptocurrency giveaway scams.” Researchers at Proofpoint this week said they’ve observed a sharp rise in these scams, which target users of Ethereum and Bitcoin...