Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites including this one, took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In a...

Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge HTML-based. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge HTML-based. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge HTML-based. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who...

Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

Sextortion Bitcoin scam makes unwelcome return

Heads up: a particularly nasty sextortion Bitcoin scam from at least the middle of 2018 is making the rounds once again. The scam involves making use of old breach dumps, then emailing someone from the list and reminding them of their old password. When something lands in your mailbox with “Hey,...

Movie stream ebooks gun for John Wick 3 on Kindle store

We discovered a novel spam campaign over the weekend, targeting fans of John Wick on the Amazon Kindle store. The scam itself involves paying for what appears to be the upcoming third movie, turns into a bogus ebook, and goes on to hyperlink potential victims to a collection of third-party...

Open Positioner: my new project for tracking IT and security jobs

The idea of my new project is to retrieve the data from job-searching websites and provide better filtering, searching and visualization. I think for the most people who read this, searching for a job in Internet is a pretty common activity. Even if you are not going to change job right now, it...

Phishing Campaign Delivers Nasty Ransomware, Credential-Theft Two-Punch

An array of phishing emails harboring Word attachments with embedded macros have been infecting systems with a deadly malware and ransomware duo. The campaign, spotted by researchers at Carbon Black, has hit infected systems with a lethal attack combination that harvests credentials, gathers syst...

Bitdefender BOX 2 bootstrap update_setup command execution vulnerability

Summary An exploitable command execution vulnerability exists in the recovery partition of Bitdefender BOX 2, version 2.0.1.91. The API method /api/updatesetup does not perform firmware signature checks atomically, leading to an exploitable race condition TOCTTOU that allows arbitrary execution o...

Fallout EK Retools for a Fresh New 2019 Look

A new version of the Fallout exploit kit EK has emerged, featuring new exploits and fresh payloads, including the GandCrab ransomware. The development shows that EKs have a lot of life yet left in them, researchers say. The Fallout EK generally finds its victims by way of malvertising campaigns,...

Hackers infect e-commerce sites by compromising their advertising partner

Magecart strikes again, one of the most notorious hacking groups specializes in stealing credit card details from poorly-secured e-commerce websites. According to security researchers from RiskIQ and Trend Micro, cybercriminals of a new subgroup of Magecart, labeled as "Magecart Group 12," recent...

Magecart Returns with Advertising Library Tactic

The Magecart card-skimming crime conglomerate has changed up its tactics in recent campaigns, injecting malicious code into third-party Java libraries used by e-commerce websites to serve advertisements. Typically, Magecart subsidiaries tend to compromise a few targeted websites in order to...

Government shutdown impacts .gov websites, puts Americans in danger

If you are in the United States, then you likely already know that we are on our 24th day of a government shutdown. While it is considered a "partial" shutdown, there are still plenty of government workers who are furloughed, which impacts the services they run—both online and off. Last week,...

Pylocky Unlocked: Cisco Talos releases PyLocky ransomware decryptor

This tool was developed by Mike Bautista. PyLocky is a family of ransomware written in Python that attempts to masquerade as a Locky variant. This ransomware will encrypt all files on a victim machine before demanding that the user pay a ransom to gain access to their decrypted files. To combat...

Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Chakra scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge HTML-based. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who...

Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

The vulnerability of Modicon microprogrammed control devices, related to insufficient verification of input data, allows attackers to redirect users to malicious websites.

The vulnerability of Modicon controller microprogramming software is related to insufficient verification of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to redirect users to a malicious website remotely...

Wormable Stored XSS on WordPress.org

Introduction Finding a critical vulnerability in one popular WordPress plugin and exploiting it in the wild could allow attackers to easily hijack thousands to millions of websites. An example of this could be observed lately in the case of the popular plugin WP GDPR Compliance. One plugin thus...