Yahoo Hacker linked to Russian Intelligence Gets 5 Years in U.S. Prison

A 23-year-old Canadian man, who pleaded guilty last year for his role in helping Russian government spies hack into email accounts of Yahoo users and other services, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Karim Baratov a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k.a Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, a Kazakhstan-born...

A week in security (April 23 – April 29)

Last week, we dug into behavioral biometrics, explored a new crossrider variant, and embraced the power of "no." We also launched another CrackMe challenge, took a deep dive into smart toys, and finished up with a look at digital privacy in the age of IoT. Other news LinkedIn does battle with...

sports.tw.campaign.yahoo.net XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-600645 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| sports.tw.campaign.yahoo.net Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

sports.tw.campaign.yahoo.net XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-595056 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| sports.tw.campaign.yahoo.net Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

openSUSE Security Update : Mozilla Thunderbird (openSUSE-2018-313)

This update for Mozilla Thunderbird to version 52.7 fixes multiple issues. The following bugs were fixed : - Searching message bodies of messages in local folders, including filter and quick filter operations, did not find content in message attachments - Better error handling for Yahoo accounts...

Sublist3r v1.0 - Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers

Sublist3r is a python tool designed to enumerate subdomains of websites using OSINT. It helps penetration testers and bug hunters collect and gather subdomains for the domain they are targeting. Sublist3r enumerates subdomains using many search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu, and Ask...

Mailsploit vulnerability exists in email address resolution

TL;DR: Mailsploit is a collection of bugs in email clients that allow effective sender spoofing and code injection attacks. The spoofing is not detected by Mail Transfer Agents MTA aka email servers, therefore circumventing spoofing protection mechanisms such as DMARC DKIM/SPF or spam filters. Bu...

Internet Bug Bounty: Mailsploit: a sender spoofing bug in over 30 email clients

Mailsploit is a collection of bugs in email clients that allow effective sender spoofing and code injection attacks. The spoofing is not detected by Mail Transfer Agents MTA aka email servers, therefore circumventing spoofing protection mechanisms such as DMARC DKIM/SPF or spam filters. Bugs were...

MailSploit — Email Spoofing Flaw Affects Over 30 Popular Email Clients

If you receive an email that looks like it's from one of your friends, just beware! It's possible that the email has been sent by someone else in an attempt to compromise your system. A security researcher has discovered a collection of vulnerabilities in more than 30 popular email client...

yahoo.hitsteps.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-446685 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| yahoo.hitsteps.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

22-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to 2014 Yahoo Hack, Admits Helping Russian Intelligence

Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen, has pleaded guilty to hacking charges over his involvement in massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected all three billion yahoo accounts. In March, the US Justice Department announced charges against two Russian intelligence office...

Android Gmail < 7.11.5.176568039 - Directory Traversal in Attachment Download Exploit

There is a directory traversal issue in attachment downloads in Gmail. For non-gmail accounts, there is no path sanitization on the attachment filename in the email, so when attachments are downloaded, a file with any name and any contents can be written to anywhere on the filesystem that the Gma...

Terdot Trojan likes social media

We usually advise people that have fallen victim to banker Trojans to change all their passwords, especially the ones that are related to their financial sites and apps. Besides the dangers of re-used passwords, there are other reasons why this is important. This advice is especially applicable t...

Phishing Biggest Threat to Google Account Security

Last year may have been mostly about ransomware, but it’s difficult to forget the billion or so passwords that were spilled in high-profile breaches and credential leaks. Google and researchers from the University of California Berkeley attempted to ease some of that pain, and teamed up to analyz...

US Identifies 6 Russian Government Officials Involved In DNC Hack

The United States Department of Justice has reportedly gathered enough evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials for allegedly playing a role in hacking DNC systems and leaking information during the 2016 presidential race. Earlier this year, US intelligence agencies concluded...

developer.yahoo.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://developer.yahoo.com/r3nw4--\n Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 16.01.2018 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP website status:| No Coordinated Disclosure Timeline...

Semrush: Email Spoofing

Hey SemRush, It appears that spoofed email can be sent from 1 of your emails. The following email is vulnerable: [email protected] Information: Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Data Breaches and Credential Stuffing: Don't Get TKOd

It has been a very rough month for the information security community. It feels like we've been on the losing end of a championship fight against Floyd Mayweather. The body shots started with Equifax https://investor.equifax.com/news-and-events/news/2017/09-07-2017-213000628 and continued with...

All 3 Billion Yahoo Users Were Hacked in 2013 Data Breach

By Uzair Amir If you had an account on Yahoo back in the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: All 3 Billion Yahoo Users Were Hacked in 2013 Data Breach...