Russia to Fine Search Engines for Linking to Banned VPN services

In its years-long efforts to censor the Internet by blocking access to a large number of websites in the country, Russia has now approved a new bill introducing fines for search engines that provide links to banned sites, VPN services, and anonymization tools. VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks, a...

CVE-2018-4246

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.4 is affected. Safari before 11.1.1 is affected. iCloud before 7.5 on Windows is affected. iTunes before 12.7.5 on Windows is affected. tvOS before 11.4 is affected. watchOS before 4.3.1 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit"...

Over 115,000 Drupal Sites Still Vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2 Exploit

Hundreds of thousands of websites running on the Drupal CMS—including those of major educational institutions and government organizations around the world—have been found vulnerable to a highly critical flaw for which security patches were released almost two months ago. Security researcher Troy...

Over 115,000 Drupal Sites Still Vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2 Exploit

Hundreds of thousands of websites running on the Drupal CMS—including those of major educational institutions and government organizations around the world—have been found vulnerable to a highly critical flaw for which security patches were released almost two months ago. Security researcher Troy...

CVE-2018-11713

WebCore/platform/network/soup/SocketStreamHandleImplSoup.cpp in the libsoup network backend of WebKit, as used in WebKitGTK+ prior to version 2.20.0 or without libsoup 2.62.0, unexpectedly failed to use system proxy settings for WebSocket connections. As a result, users could be deanonymized by...

Ticketfly, Major Concert Venues Still Offline After Hack

UPDATE Ticketfly and several major venues’ services are still offline Monday morning as they struggle to recover from a major hack that have brought down their websites and disrupted several public on-sale concert tickets. Ticket distribution service Ticketfly said in a statement that it has...

Malicious PHP Script Infects 2,400 Websites in the Past Week

A botnet dubbed Brain Food is giving webmasters indigestion with related attacks that push bogus diet pills and IQ-boosting pills via web pages hosted on legitimate sites. So far, spammers have been successful, thanks to an effective Hypertext Preprocessor PHP script also called Brain Food that h...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-7160

The Node.js inspector, in 6.x and later is vulnerable to a DNS rebinding attack which could be exploited to perform remote code execution. An attack is possible from malicious websites open in a web browser on the same computer, or another computer with network access to the computer running the...

GandCrab Ransomware Found Hiding on Legitimate Websites

The GandCrab ransomware continues to virulently spread and adapt to shifting cyber-conditions, most recently crawling back into relevance on the back of several large-scale spam campaigns. What’s interesting is that GandCrab payload was found hiding on legitimate but compromised websites. These,...

Gandcrab Ransomware Walks its Way onto Compromised Sites

This blog post authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Nick Lister and Christopher Marczewski. Despite the recent decline in the prevalence of ransomware in the threat landscape, Cisco Talos has been monitoring the now widely distributed ransomware called Gandcrab. Gandcrab uses both...

400 popular Drupal based websites hacked to mine cryptocurrency

By Waqas Vulnerability in Drupal CMS Converted Popular Websites into Monero mining This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 400 popular Drupal based websites hacked to mine cryptocurrency...

Windows VBScript Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the VBScript engine handles objects in memory. 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 successfully exploited the vulnerabili...

Microsoft Edge based on Edge HTML Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge based on Edge HTML improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. To exploit the vulnerability, in a web-based attac...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers. 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 successfully exploit...

Microsoft Browser Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft browsers access objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in a way that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

Graffiti in the digital world: How hacktivists use defacement

Activists have been featured more frequently in the news lately, with marches shining the spotlight on women's rights and bringing about an end to gun violence, to name a few. However, the real world isn't the only place where activism happens. The digital realm has become a critical space for...

Mercury - A Hacking Tool Used To Collect Information And Use The Information To Further Hurt The Target

Mercury is a hacking tool used to collect information and use the information to further hurt the target. Installation Requires Python2 Linux apt-get install python2 git clone https://www.github.com/MetaChar/Mercury pip install -r requirements.txt Features BruteForce Mercury uses Selenium to...

Google Chrome Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-08952)

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by the American company Google Google. A security vulnerability exists in Google Chrome versions prior to 65.0.3325.146. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information by tricking users into visiting a specially crafted...

‘FakeUpdates’ campaign leverages multiple website platforms

A malware campaign which seems to have started at least since December 2017 has been gaining steam by enrolling a growing number of legitimate but compromised websites. Its modus operandi relies on social engineering users with fake but convincing update notifications. Similar techniques were use...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. 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 successfully...