Phone Pharming for Ad Fraud

Interesting article on people using banks of smartphones to commit ad fraud for profit. No one knows how prevalent ad fraud is on the Internet. I believe it is surprisingly high -- here's an article that places losses between $6.5 and $19 billion annually -- and something companies like Google an...

WordPress Woody Ad Snippets plugin <= 2.2.4 - Unauthenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Unauthenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability found by Jerome Bruandet Nintechnet by WordPress Woody Ad Snippets plugin versions = 2.2.4. Solution Update the WordPress Woody Ad Snippets plugin to the latest available version at least 2.2.5...

ad-hoc-news.de Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-927133 Security Researcher IAMMUSTAFA Helped patch 521 vulnerabilities Received 9 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 51 recommendations , a holder of 9 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting ad-hoc-news.de website an...

Woody Ad Snippets <= 2.2.4 - Multiple issues leading to RCE

Unauthenticated options import and unauthenticated stored XSS issues which could lead to Remote Code Execution...

Malvertising Campaigns Skirt Ad Blockers, Serve Up Mac Malware

Two fresh malvertising campaigns are making the scene that are abusing the convoluted underpinnings of the internet economy to find malware victims. One is a large-scale exploit kit EK campaign designed to circumvent traditional safeguards, such as ad blockers, and the other uses web redirects to...

CVE-2018-16860

A flaw was found in samba's Heimdal KDC implementation, versions 4.8.x up to, excluding 4.8.12, 4.9.x up to, excluding 4.9.8 and 4.10.x up to, excluding 4.10.3, when used in AD DC mode. A man in the middle attacker could use this flaw to intercept the request to the KDC and replace the user name...

CVE-2018-16860

A flaw was found in samba's Heimdal KDC implementation, versions 4.8.x up to, excluding 4.8.12, 4.9.x up to, excluding 4.9.8 and 4.10.x up to, excluding 4.10.3, when used in AD DC mode. A man in the middle attacker could use this flaw to intercept the request to the KDC and replace the user name...

Design/Logic Flaw

A flaw was found in samba's Heimdal KDC implementation, versions 4.8.x up to, excluding 4.8.12, 4.9.x up to, excluding 4.9.8 and 4.10.x up to, excluding 4.10.3, when used in AD DC mode. A man in the middle attacker could use this flaw to intercept the request to the KDC and replace the user name...

CVE-2018-16860

The CVE-2018-16860 issue affects Samba’s Heimdal KDC implementation in AD DC mode, specifically versions 4.8.x (before 4.8.12), 4.9.x (before 4.9.8), and 4.10.x (before 4.10.3). The vulnerability is a flaw in the KDC handling that enables a man-in-the-middle attacker to intercept a KDC request an...

CVE-2018-16860

A flaw was found in samba's Heimdal KDC implementation, versions 4.8.x up to, excluding 4.8.12, 4.9.x up to, excluding 4.9.8 and 4.10.x up to, excluding 4.10.3, when used in AD DC mode. A man in the middle attacker could use this flaw to intercept the request to the KDC and replace the user name...

CVE-2018-16860

A flaw was found in samba's Heimdal KDC implementation, versions 4.8.x up to, excluding 4.8.12, 4.9.x up to, excluding 4.9.8 and 4.10.x up to, excluding 4.10.3, when used in AD DC mode. A man in the middle attacker could use this flaw to intercept the request to the KDC and replace the user name...

CVE-2018-16860

A flaw was found in samba's Heimdal KDC implementation, versions 4.8.x up to, excluding 4.8.12, 4.9.x up to, excluding 4.9.8 and 4.10.x up to, excluding 4.10.3, when used in AD DC mode. A man in the middle attacker could use this flaw to intercept the request to the KDC and replace the user name...

Malvertising: Online advertising's darker side

By Nick Biasini, Chris Neal and Matt Valites. Executive summary One of the trickiest challenges enterprises face is managing the balance between aggressively blocking malicious advertisements aka malvertising and allowing content to remain online, accessible for the average user. The days of...

What is BAT and why you should install Brave Browser?

BAT is an Ethereum token that powers Brave Software's blockchain-based digital advertising platform. Internet users who browse the web using Brave's free web browser available at can choose to replace the ads they see with ads on Brave's ad network. Users then receive BAT from advertisers as...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in ShyPost Enterprise Management System Ad***.asp Page

ShyPost Enterprise Management System is a set of intelligent ASP-based website building software. ShyPost Enterprise Management System Ad.asp page has a SQL injection vulnerability, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information from the database...

New Facebook ad reporting tool launches in UK

Last year, well-known consumer advice expert Martin Lewis decided to take Facebook to court for defamation. The cause? Multiple bogus adverts placed on the social network featuring his likeness, appearing via the ad network Outbrain. As a trusted face in consumer causes, scammers bolting Lewis'...

WordPress Ad Inserter Plugin < 2.4.22 RCE Vulnerability

The WordPress plugin SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only if description scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.112607";...

Ad Inserter <= 2.4.21 - Authenticated Remote Code Execution

The Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads WordPress plugin was affected by an Authenticated Remote Code Execution security vulnerability. PoC The nonce aicheck in the final request can be obtained by querying the homepage with the AIWPDEBUGGING cookie set to 2. Then, use an account with a role a...

WordPress Ad Inserter plugin <= 2.4.21 - Authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability

Authenticated Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability found by Sean Murphy WordFence in WordPress Ad Inserter plugin versions = 2.4.21. Solution Update the WordPress Ad Inserter plugin to the latest available version at least 2.4.22...

Ad Inserter <= 2.4.21 - Authenticated Remote Code Execution

The Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads WordPress plugin was affected by an Authenticated Remote Code Execution security vulnerability. The nonce aicheck in the final request can be obtained by querying the homepage with the AIWPDEBUGGING cookie set to 2. Then, use an account with a role as lo...