Indian National Gets 20-Year Jail in United States for Running Scam Call Centers

An Indian national on Monday was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the Southern District of Texas for operating and funding India-based call centers that defrauded US victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016. Hitesh Madhubhai Patel aka Hitesh Hinglaj, who hails from the city of...

Major BEC Phishing Ring Cracked Open with 3 Arrests

Three men suspected of participating in a massive business email compromise BEC ring have been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. A joint INTERPOL, Group-IB and Nigeria Police Force cybercrime investigation resulted in the arrest of the Nigerian nationals, believed to be responsible for distributing...

Code injection

An unauthenticated client can trigger denial of service by issuing specially crafted wire protocol messages, which cause the message decompressor to incorrectly allocate memory. This issue affects MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.1; MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.13; MongoDB...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20925

An unauthenticated client can trigger denial of service by issuing specially crafted wire protocol messages, which cause the message decompressor to incorrectly allocate memory. This issue affects MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.1; MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.13; MongoDB...

CVE-2019-20925

Removed by vendor...

PT-2020-10880 · Mongodb +3 · Mongodb Server +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: MongoDB Server versions prior to 4.2.1 MongoDB Server versions prior to 4.0.13 MongoDB Server versions prior to 3.6.15 MongoDB Server versions prior to 3.4.24 Description: An unauthenticated client can trigger denial of service by issuing...

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...

$100M Botnet Scheme Lands Cybercriminal 8 Years in Jail

Authorities have sentenced a hacker to eight years in prison for trafficking stolen personally identifiable information PII and online banking credentials resulting in losses totaling over $100 million. Aleksandr Brovko, 36, formerly of the Czech Republic, pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy...

Wisc. GOP's $2.3M MAGA Hat Debacle Showcases Fraud Concerns

The Wisconsin Republican party’s war chest is lighter by $2.3 million after scammers posing as MAGA-hat vendors were able to spoof invoices in what appears to be a basic business email compromise BEC attack. It’s just the latest in a litany of attacks related to the upcoming election, and it...

CVE-2020-27853

Wire before 2020-10-16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a format string. This affects Wire AVS Audio, Video, and Signaling 5.3 through 6.x before 6.4, the Wire Secure Messenger application before 3.49.918 for Android, an...

CVE-2020-27853

Wire before 2020-10-16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a format string. This affects Wire AVS Audio, Video, and Signaling 5.3 through 6.x before 6.4, the Wire Secure Messenger application before 3.49.918 for Android, an...

Format string

Wire before 2020-10-16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a format string. This affects Wire AVS Audio, Video, and Signaling 5.3 through 6.x before 6.4, the Wire Secure Messenger application before 3.49.918 for Android, an...

CVE-2020-27853

Wire before 2020-10-16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a format string. This affects Wire AVS Audio, Video, and Signaling 5.3 through 6.x before 6.4, the Wire Secure Messenger application before 3.49.918 for Android, an...

CVE-2020-27853

CVE-2020-27853 is a format-string vulnerability in Wire’s peerflow/sdp.c (sdp_media_set_lattr). It affects Wire AVS 5.3–6.x before 6.4 and Wire Secure Messenger apps on Android/iOS (before the listed versions). Remote attackers could cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code; im...

CVE-2020-27853

Wire before 2020-10-16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a format string. This affects Wire AVS Audio, Video, and Signaling 5.3 through 6.x before 6.4, the Wire Secure Messenger application before 3.49.918 for Android, an...

CVE-2020-15258

In Wire before 3.20.x, shell.openExternal was used without checking the URL. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code on the victims machine by sending messages containing links with arbitrary protocols. The victim has to interact with the link and sees the URL that is opened. The...

CVE-2020-15258

In Wire before 3.20.x, shell.openExternal was used without checking the URL. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code on the victims machine by sending messages containing links with arbitrary protocols. The victim has to interact with the link and sees the URL that is opened. The...

CVE-2020-15258

In Wire before 3.20.x, shell.openExternal was used without checking the URL. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code on the victims machine by sending messages containing links with arbitrary protocols. The victim has to interact with the link and sees the URL that is opened. The...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Wire before 3.20.x, shell.openExternal was used without checking the URL. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code on the victims machine by sending messages containing links with arbitrary protocols. The victim has to interact with the link and sees the URL that is opened. The...

CVE-2020-15258

CVE-2020-15258 affects Wire prior to 3.20.x, where the app used shell.openExternal without validating the URL. This could let an attacker craft messages with links using arbitrary protocols, potentially enabling code execution on a victim’s machine after user interaction. The root cause is openin...