DNS Filtering: A Top Battle Front Against Malware and Phishing

Peter Lowe With the proliferation of malicious websites, domain name system DNS filtering has been adopted as an effective method for blacklisting content and blocking out suspicious webpages. Peter Lowe, security researcher with DNSFilter, talks to Cody Hackett on this week’s Threatpost Podcast...

German users targeted with Gootkit banker or REvil ransomware

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade and Jérôme Segura On November 23, we received an alert from a partner about a resurgence of Gootkit infections in Germany. Gootkit is a very capable banking Trojan that has been around since 2014 and possesses a number of functionalities such as keystrok...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: drupal7-7.74-1.fc32

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal is a Content Management System written in PHP that can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. Drupal is highly configurable, skinnable, and secure...

New Grelos Skimmer Variants Siphon Credit Card Data

Just as seasonal online shopping kicks into high gear, new variants of the point-of-sale Grelos skimmer malware have been identified. Variants are targeting the payment-card data of online retail shoppers on dozens of compromised websites, researchers warn. The Grelos skimmer malware has been...

Demystifying two common misconceptions with e-commerce security

Online shopping has seen a dramatic increase in the months following the Covid-19 outbreak as more and more people opt-out of visiting physical stores. Such a phenomenon does not go unnoticed or without additional consequences. During the same time period, we have seen an increase in the usual...

Attackers Target Porn Site Goers in ‘Malsmoke’ Zloader Attack

Cybercriminals are tricking adult website visitors – including sites such as bravoporn.com and xhamster.com – in malvertising attacks that redirect victims to malicious websites serving up malware. The campaign, which is part of a larger malvertising effort dubbed “malsmoke”, has been tracked...

Hacked Security Software Used in Novel South Korean Supply-Chain Attack

The Lazarus cybercriminal group is using a novel supply-chain attack against visitors to websites operated by the South Korean government and financial firms, in order to deliver dropper malware that eventually plants a remote access trojan on victim’s PCs. The attacks use stolen digital...

Malsmoke operators abandon exploit kits in favor of social engineering scheme

Exploit kits continue to be used as a malware delivery platform. In 2020, weve observed a number of different malvertising campaigns leading to RIG, Fallout, Spelevo and Purple Fox, among others. And, in September, we put out a blog post detailing a surge in malvertising via adult websites. One o...

Exposed Database Reveals 100K+ Compromised Facebook Accounts

Researchers have uncovered a wide-ranging global scam targeting Facebook users, after finding an unsecured database used by fraudsters to store the usernames and passwords of at least 100,000 victims. Researchers said that the cybercriminals behind the scam were tricking Facebook victims into...

CVE-2020-26219

touchbase.ai before version 2.0 is vulnerable to Open Redirect. Impacts can be many, and vary from theft of information and credentials, to the redirection to malicious websites containing attacker-controlled content, which in some cases even cause XSS attacks. So even though an open redirection...

Open redirect

touchbase.ai before version 2.0 is vulnerable to Open Redirect. Impacts can be many, and vary from theft of information and credentials, to the redirection to malicious websites containing attacker-controlled content, which in some cases even cause XSS attacks. So even though an open redirection...

CVE-2020-26219 Open Redirect in touchbase.ai

touchbase.ai before version 2.0 is vulnerable to Open Redirect. Impacts can be many, and vary from theft of information and credentials, to the redirection to malicious websites containing attacker-controlled content, which in some cases even cause XSS attacks. So even though an open redirection...

Two Charged in SIM Swapping, Vishing Scams

Two young men from the eastern United States have been hit with identity theft and conspiracy charges for allegedly stealing bitcoin and social media accounts by tricking employees at wireless phone companies into giving away credentials needed to remotely access and modify customer account...

Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration Data

Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® version 8 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 8 for all referenced threat actor techniques. This joint cybersecurity advisory was coauthored by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...

Beware a New Google Drive Scam Landing in Inboxes

Scammers are luring people into Google Docs in an attempt to get them to visit potentially malicious websites...

CISA and FBI Release Joint Advisory on Iranian APT Actor Targeting Voter Registration Data

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint cybersecurity advisory on an Iranian advanced persistent threat APT actor targeting U.S. state websites, including elections websites, to obtain voter registration data. Joi...

The Tale of Double JavaScript Obfuscated Scam

The phishing landscape is constantly evolving. Over the years, it has evolved into a more scalable threat, with an overwhelming amount of campaigns being launched daily. Phishing also changed when criminals started adding more capabilities and features to their toolkits, which make the phishing...

PT-2020-20819 · Apple · Macos Catalina +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: iOS versions prior to 13.6 iPadOS versions prior to 13.6 macOS Catalina versions prior to 10.15.6 tvOS versions prior to 13.4.8 watchOS versions prior to 6.2.8 Description: A certificate validation issue existed when processing...

Crlf injection

A vulnerability in the Clientless SSL VPN WebVPN of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers in the responses of the affected system. The vulnerability is due to...

Unable to access internal Websites with Android Secure Web using MAM SDK

On Android Secure Web with MAM SDK, accessing internal websites shows error 'ERREMPTYRESPONSE'. Further checking the logs, we see that Secure Web does not tunnel the connection to AG for internal websites. But for Legacy SDK, it works fine. Split Tunne - ON DNS suffixes - ADDED In the logs, we se...