Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Aug. 31

The Threatpost team breaks down the biggest news for the week ending on August 31. Topics covered are a Microsoft Windows zero-day, Yahoo’s recent acknowledgement that it scans emails to target ads to a report that mobile app SDKs capture private data when an Android or iOS app crashes. Download...

Yahoo Persists in Scanning Emails for In-Depth Ad-Targeting

While the rest of the U.S. tech industry is taking steps to assuage consumer concerns over privacy and data-harvesting, Yahoo is selling off the ability to scan more than 200 million Yahoo Mail inboxes for rich user data that might be used for marketing purposes. Verizon’s Oath unit, which owns...

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...

CVE-2018-15608

Zoho ManageEngine ADManager Plus 6.5.7 allows HTML Injection on the "AD Delegation" "Help Desk Technicians" screen...

CVE-2018-15608

Zoho ManageEngine ADManager Plus 6.5.7 allows HTML Injection on the "AD Delegation" "Help Desk Technicians" screen...

Design/Logic Flaw

Zoho ManageEngine ADManager Plus 6.5.7 allows HTML Injection on the "AD Delegation" "Help Desk Technicians" screen...

CVE-2018-15608

Zoho ManageEngine ADManager Plus 6.5.7 allows HTML Injection on the "AD Delegation" "Help Desk Technicians" screen...

A week in security (August 20 – August 26)

Last week on Labs, we took a look at insider threats, doubled back on the privacy of search browser extensions, profiled green card scams, revisited Defcon badgelife, and talked about what happens to a user's accounts when they die. Other cybersecurity news There was an archiving error in Twitch...

ManageEngine ADManager Plus 6.5.7 - HTML Injection

ManageEngine ADManager Plus 6.5.7 - HTML Injection Exploit Title: ManageEngine ADManager Plus 6.5.7 - HTML Injection Date: 2018-08-21 Exploit Author: Ismail Tasdelen Vendor Homepage: https://www.manageengine.com/ Hardware Link : https://www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager/ Software : ZOHO Co...

Insteon Hub Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-16501)

The Insteon Hub is an Insteon central controller product from Insteon USA. This product can remotely control light bulbs, wall switches, air conditioners and more in your home. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the PubNub 'ad' channel message handler in the Insteon Hub using firmware...

Samba 'AD LDAP' Information Disclosure Vulnerability (Aug 2018)

Samba is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; yo...

CVE-2018-8340

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Active Directory Federation Services AD FS improperly handles multi-factor authentication requests, aka "AD FS Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Servers...

CVE-2018-8340

CVE-2018-8340 is a security feature bypass in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) where multi-factor authentication requests are improperly handled. The description across sources identifies the vulnerability affecting Windows Server 2016 , Windows Server 2012 R2 , and Windows 10 Servers...

CVE-2017-14447

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the PubNub message handler for the 'ad' channel of Insteon Hub running firmware version 1012. Specially crafted commands sent through the PubNub service can cause a stack-based buffer overflow overwriting arbitrary data. An attacker should se...

ShopsN open source online store full system AdController file there are SQL injection vulnerabilities

ShopsN free version of the B2C e-commerce is a product of Shanghai Yisu Network Technology Co., Ltd. a full-featured enterprise-class commercial standards in line with the real allow free commercial use of open source online store full network system. ShopsN 2.3.3 official version of the...

Complex Malvertising Scheme Impacts Multiple Levels of Web Economy

UPDATE A sprawling malvertising campaign that leverages the AdsTerra legitimate online advertising company has been uncovered, involving at least 10,000 compromised websites and driving legions of web visitors around the world to exploit kits. AdsTerra, one of the largest ad networks out there,...

Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Android Apps From the Play Store

Following Apple's lead in banning cryptocurrency mining apps, Google has also updated its Play Store policy this week to ban apps that mine cryptocurrencies on users' devices in the background. However, there are countless cryptocurrency mining apps, including MinerGate, AA Miner, NeoNeonMiner, a...

Introducing: Malwarebytes Browser Extension

Are you tired of all the unwanted content the world wide web offers up, whether you like it or not? It is our privilege to introduce you to the Malwarebytes Browser Extension BETA. Or, better said, the Malwarebytes Browser Extensions, because we have one for Firefox and one for Chrome. Introducti...

Authentication Bypass in passport-azure-ad

Affected versions of passport-azure-ad do not recognize the validateIssuer setting, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a crafted token. Recommendation Version 1.x: Update to version 1.4.6 or later. Version 2.x: Update to version 2.0.1 or later...

GHSA-73JP-3C67-HJFV Authentication Bypass in passport-azure-ad

Affected versions of passport-azure-ad do not recognize the validateIssuer setting, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a crafted token. Recommendation Version 1.x: Update to version 1.4.6 or later. Version 2.x: Update to version 2.0.1 or later...