Using Gmail "Dot Addresses" to Commit Fraud

In Gmail addresses, the dots don't matter. The account "[email protected]" maps to the exact same address as "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" -- and so on. Note: I own none of those addresses, if they are actually valid. This fact can be used to commit fraud:...

The APT Name Game: How Grim Threat Actors Get Goofy Monikers

What’s in a name? When it comes to advanced persistent threat groups, it is often quite a bit. While their monikers’ may seem whimsical – Fancy Bear, Nomadic Octopus, Ocean Lotus and Darkhotel – the reality is these are not arbitrary names. In fact, many are similar to schoolyard nicknames or a...

Wordpress Users Urged to Delete Zero-Day-Ridden Plugin

Researchers are urging WordPress site owners to delete a compromised plugin after multiple zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered being exploited by a malicious actor. Researchers at Wordfence said on Friday that flaws in the plugin, Total Donations, are being exploited by malicious actors to...

Fighting Fire with Fire: API Automation Risks

Akamai research shows that 83 percent of all traffic on the web today are API calls JSON / XML. In many cases this fast growth can be attributed to the adoption and popularity of mobile devices and the mobile app ecosystem, as well as the abuse by threat actors using bots to automate their manual...

BEC Will Reach Two Levels Deeper

In our predictions report for 2019, “Mapping the Future: Dealing with Pervasive and Persistent Threats,” we foresaw an increase in the rate of BEC business email compromise attacks: “Business email compromise will go two levels down in the org chart.” From the report: | “Business email compromise...

Collection 1 data breach: what you need to know

Yesterday, news broke that the largest data dump in history had been discovered, with more than 770 million people's Personally Identifiable Information PII decrypted, catalogued, and up for grabs on the Internet. The files, which are being dubbed Collection 1, were originally found on cloud...

20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak

German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last month. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed by the police, was arrested after police...

unCAPTCHA AI Cracks Google reCAPTCHAs with 90% Accuracy

unCAPTCHA, an artificial intelligence-based automated system designed at the University of Maryland, has been updated to break Google’s latest audio-based reCAPTCHA challenges with an accuracy rate of 90 percent. Google has been working on refining and strengthening reCAPTCHA for years, a Turing...

Webgalamb Information Disclosure / XSS / CSRF / SQL Injection

Summary ------- Vendor: E.N.S. Zrt www.ens.hu Product: Webgalamb www.webgalamb.hu, www.facebook.com/webgalamb Webgalamb is a commercial email marketing software for managing subscription lists and sending out bulk emails. It is not SaaS but a PHP based web application that is typically hosted nex...

Phishing Tactic Hides Tracks with Custom Fonts

An insidious phishing method evades detection using a never-before-seen technique that leverages custom fonts to cover its tracks. Researchers at Proofpoint recently discovered an active credential harvesting phishing scheme. Once a victim has clicked on the initial phishing email, the resulting...

Wide-Ranging German Doxxing Incident Hits Hundreds of Politicians

Hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have been doxxed in a puzzling incident, with their private information and political documents dumped online. At least one local reporter is claiming the information is explosive. According to a report from German public...

Twitter Draws Data Privacy Concerns with Two New Bugs

Two recently-patched flaws in Twitter’s platform have reignited concerns about user data-privacy issues. On Monday, the social-media giant revealed a hole that accidentally enabled bad actors to pull the country codes of accounts’ phone numbers – and revealed that several IP addresses located in...

Zero-day in Windows Kernel Transaction Manager (CVE-2018-8611)

Executive summary In October 2018, our AEP Automatic Exploit Prevention systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. Further analysis led us to uncover a zero-day vulnerability in ntoskrnl.exe. We reported it to Microsoft on October 29, 2018. T...

Emotet's Thanksgiving Campaign Delivers New Recipes for Compromise

Emotet, the seemingly ubiquitous banking trojan, has turned up again after a small hiatus, this time as the anchor in a Thanksgiving-themed campaign that cranked up in the U.S. this week. It has also upgraded its capabilities with new tactics and modules, which has boosted its efficacy, according...

Web skimmers compete in Umbro Brasil hack

Umbro, the popular sportswear brand has had their Umbro Brasil website hacked and injected with not one but two web skimmers part of the Magecart group. Magecart has become a household name in recent months due to high profile attacks on various merchant websites. Criminals can seamlessly steal...

Stopping the Infiltration of Things

The Internet of Things – connected devices that contain network sensors to allow for remote monitoring and control, are expected to hit 75-billion devices installed by 2025. These devices include everything from home routers, remote cameras to healthcare devices. This wide-ranging...

Gmail Glitch Offers Stealthy Trick for Phishing Attacks

A strange glitch in Gmail can be exploited to place emails into a person’s “Sent” folder — even if that person never sent them. Researchers who discovered the bug worry that it gives phishers and scammers another avenue to trick unsuspecting users into clicking on malicious links or opening rogue...

Carbon Black Report: Destructive Cyberattacks Increase Ahead of 2018 Midterm Elections

A trade war with China. A fragile agreement with North Korea. A growing fear of Russian hackers. Ahead of the 2018 U.S. midterm congressional elections, geopolitical conflict continues to play out in cyberspace. According to the world’s top incident response IR professionals, politically motivate...

Making it real—harnessing data gravity to build the next gen SOC

This post was coauthored by Diana Kelley, Cybersecurity Field CTO, andSin John,EMEA Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group. In our first blog, Diana and I talked about the concept of data gravity and how it could, conceptually, help organizations take a more cloud-ready approach to...

GPlayed Trojan - .Net playing with Google Market

This blog post is authored by Vitor Ventura. Introduction In a world where everything is always connected, and mobile devices are involved in individuals' day-to-day lives more and more often, malicious actors are seeing increased opportunities to attack these devices. Cisco Talos has identified...