Attackers successfully hide Mac malware in ad images

By Waqas Malware campaigns have become quite regular on Apple devices and as per the new report from Confiant, a cyber-security firm, there’s a new group on the block called that is specifically targeting Apple users through malvertising. The group called VeryMal has employed steganography...

Download Ad Manager by WD - Arbitrary File Download

The 10WebAdManager WordPress plugin was affected by an Arbitrary File Download security vulnerability...

Malware in Ad-Based Images Targets Mac Users

A massive adware campaign has so far impacted up to a million Mac users, using a tricky steganography technique to hide malware in image files. Researchers at Confiant and Malwarebytes said the attacks have been running since Jan. 11, using ads on the web and steganography to spread; steganograph...

Google Fined $57M in Largest GDPR Slap Yet

France’s National Data Protection Commission CNIL has fined Google $57 million €50 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR – the largest fine yet issued under the EU’s new data privacy law. In investigating group complaints from privacy advocacy groups None Of Your...

Alleged Russian Hacker Pleads Not Guilty After Extradition to United States

A Russian hacker indicted by a United States court for his involvement in online ad fraud schemes that defrauded multiple American companies out of tens of millions of dollars pleaded not guilty on Friday in a courtroom in Brooklyn, New York. Aleksandr Zhukov , 38, was arrested in November last...

Alleged Russian Hacker Pleads Not Guilty After Extradition to United States

A Russian hacker indicted by a United States court for his involvement in online ad fraud schemes that defrauded multiple American companies out of tens of millions of dollars pleaded not guilty on Friday in a courtroom in Brooklyn, New York. Aleksandr Zhukov, 38, was arrested in November last ye...

How the Feds Failed to Track Thousands of Separated Children

Ad hoc systems and haphazard databases made the Trump administration’s cruel border separation policies somehow even worse...

ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that can lead to code execution

In ansible it was found that inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command which are under attacker's control, allowing to run arbitrary code as a result...

Arbitrary Code Execution

ansible is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. The application loads certain host/group variables from the current working directory when ad-hoc command line commands are run and a playbook or playbook base directory is not specified. This can allow a malicious user to inject and execute...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

samba4 is vulnerable to remote code execution RCE attacks. The vulnerability exists through a heap-based buffer overflow in the dcerpcreadncacnpacketdone function in librpc/rpc/dcerpcutil.c in winbindd in Samba 3.x before 3.6.22, 4.0.x before 4.0.13, and 4.1.x before 4.1.3 allows remote AD domain...

Pre-Installed Android App Impacts Millions with Slew of Malicious Activity

A pre-installed Android application on Alcatel smartphones has been found surreptitiously siphoning off geolocation data, email addresses and phone identification numbers and sending the data to a server in China. Analysts with Upstream’s Secure-D platform said that the app, Weather Forecast—Worl...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in YXcmsApp1.4.7's ad***.php Page

YXcmsApp is a PHP and MySQL based enterprise building content management system CMS. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the ad.php page of YXcmsApp 1.4.7, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information from the database...

SQL injection vulnerability in the ad***.php page of YXcmsApp 1.4.7 (CNVD-2019-05336)

YXcmsApp is a PHP and MySQL based enterprise building content management system CMS. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the ad.php page of YXcmsApp 1.4.7, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information from the database...

Malvertising Campaign Delivers Double Whammy of Ransomware and Info-Stealing

A multi-payload and ongoing malvertising campaign is distributing a newly discovered info-stealer as well as the GandCrab ransomware. The info-stealer is named Vidar, after the Norse god Víðarr, who was the son of Odin in mythology. According to researcher Fumik0, who discovered it in December,...

Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Relied on BGP Hijacking

This is a really interesting story of an ad fraud scheme that relied on hijacking the Border Gateway Protocol: Members of 3ve pronounced "eve" used their large reservoir of trusted IP addresses to conceal a fraud that otherwise would have been easy for advertisers to detect. The scheme employed a...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in ZZCMS ad***.php Page

ZZCMS is a CMS Content Management System used to quickly build Merchants type websites. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the ZZCMS ad.php page, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information from the database...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in ZZCMS ad***.php

ZZCMS is a free and open source website building system, mainly facing the majority of webmasters. ZZCMS ad.php SQL injection vulnerability, attackers can use the vulnerability to obtain sensitive information database...

Yes, Chromebooks can and do get infected

As a Mac malware specialist, I've seen more than my share of folks saying "Macs don't get viruses" over the years. I've seen and experienced first-hand that this isn't true—even on iOS, where despite having tight, built-in security, iPhones are still capable of getting infected by rare malware. I...

Crowd silently ignores changes to active status of users in Azure AD.

When Crowd synchronises users for the very first time from Azure AD it will recognise "active" state of users correctly. Unfortunately, on next synchronisations Crowd ignores changes to these statuses, so once they are set, they will never change...

Crowd silently ignores changes to active status of users in Azure AD.

When Crowd synchronises users for the very first time from Azure AD it will recognise "active" state of users correctly. Unfortunately, on next synchronisations Crowd ignores changes to these statuses, so once they are set, they will never change...