ThreatList: Phishing Attacks Doubled in 2018

Phishing attempts more than doubled in 2018, as bad actors sought to trick victims into handing over their credentials. They used both old tricks – such as scams tied to current events – as well as other stealthy, fresher tactics. Researchers with Kaspersky Lab said in a Tuesday report that durin...

Spam and phishing in 2018

Numbers of the year The share of spam in mail traffic was 52.48%, which is 4.15 p.p. less than in 2017. The biggest source of spam this year was China 11.69%. 74.15% of spam emails were less than 2 KB in size. Malicious spam was detected most commonly with the Win32.CVE-2017-11882 verdict. The...

First steps with Docker: installation in CentOS 7, vulnerability assessment, interactive mode and saving changes

Docker and containerization are literally everywhere. IMHO, this changes the IT landscape much more than virtualization and clouds. Let's say you have a host, you checked it and find out that there are no vulnerable packages. But what's the point if this host runs Docker containers with their own...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-2001

The permissions on /proc/iomem were world-readable. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-117422211...

CVE-2019-2001: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

The permissions on /proc/iomem were world-readable. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-117422211...

Mambo CMS <= 4.6.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Mambo CMS is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation...

A week in security (February 18 – 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explored the world of crack hunting, gave you a 101 on the world of bots and their threats and advantages, and took a look at some clever phishing scams. We also explained how a Mac fends off malware, posted a handy “lazy person's guide to cybersecurity,” and du...

Maltego CE - An Interactive Data Mining Tool That Renders Directed Graphs For Link Analysis

Maltego CE is the community version of Maltego that is available for free after a quick online registration. Maltego CE includes most of the same functionality as the commercial version however it has some limitations. The main limitation with the community version is that the application cannot ...

The Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of Fakes

It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified...

Reconstructing SIGSALY

Lessons learned in reconstructing the World War II-era SIGSALY voice encryption system...

3 Reasons Your Business Needs Security at the Edge

As a security professional, no one knows better than you that the attack surface is shifting and continues to expand across an ever-widening area. Our interconnected digital lives are wreaking havoc with the idea of "the perimeter." As digital attacks continue to grow in size and volume, and are...

SSRF Protocol Smuggling in Plaintext Credential Handlers : LDAP

SSRF protocol smuggling involves an attacker injecting one TCP protocol into a dissimilar TCP protocol. A classic example is using gopher i.e. the first protocol to smuggle SMTP i.e. the second protocol: 1 |...

libcgroups Access Control Unauthorized Access

The vulnerability of the software for automatically processing group configurations and assigning processes to groups related to libcgroup lies in the creation of the "/var/log/cgred" file with access rights of 0666, regardless of the umask setting. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an...

PayPal: Stored XSS on https://paypal.com/signin via cache poisoning

Due to a configuration in frontend, caching servers, it was possible for a researcher to use request smuggling to convert a page request into a cached redirect. If the cached redirect were accessed by a legitimate user, an attacker's content would be rendered instead of the requested page. While...

DuckDuckGo: XXE on https://duckduckgo.com

An XML External Entity XXE injection vulnerability was discovered in the x.js endpoint on https://duckduckgo.com via u parameter. This was due to improper sanitation of external XML entities. The results was a leak of certain world readable files on the system. This issue was patched. Additionall...

CVE-2019-0004 Juniper ATP: API and device keys are logged in a world-readable permissions file

On Juniper ATP, the API key and the device key are logged in a file readable by authenticated local users. These keys are used for performing critical operations on the WebUI interface. This issue affects Juniper ATP 5.0 versions prior to 5.0.3...

Information Disclosure

puppet-swift is vulnerable to information-disclosure. The vulnerability is possible as it has a flaw in the service deployment and leaves the proxy-server.conf file with world-readable permissions...

Sensitive Information Leakage

Red Hat Network RHN Configuration Client rhncfg-client tool is vulnerable to sensitive information leakage. It allows a local attacker to get rhncfg-client actions by reading the file since "/var/log/rhncfg-actions" file is set as world-readable...

World Writable Permissions

augeas is vulnerable to world writable permissions. The vulnerability exists as the transformsave function in transform.c in Augeas 1.0.0 through 1.1.0 does not properly calculate the permission values when the umask contains a "7," which causes world-writable permissions to be used for new files...

Information Disclosure

JBoss SX and PicketBox is vulnerable to information disclosure. The audit.log file which stores logs containing confidential information is world-readable. This allows a local user to read the log file and obtain sensitive information such as usernames and passwords...