hBlock - Improve Your Security And Privacy By Blocking Ads, Tracking And Malware Domains

Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains. What is this for? This POSIX-compliant shell script, designed for Unix-like systems, gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple reputable sources and creates a hosts file that...

Podcast: How Millions of Apps Leak Private Data

SAN FRANCISCO – Threatpost’s Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about new research on leaky apps made public this week. Unuchek released his research at the RSA conference this week, revealing that millions of apps leak personal identifiable information –...

Over 20 Million Users Installed Malicious Ad Blockers From Chrome Store

If you have installed any of the below-mentioned Ad blocker extension in your Chrome browser, you could have been hacked. A security researcher has spotted five malicious ad blockers extension in the Google Chrome Store that had already been installed by at least 20 million users. Unfortunately,...

Over 20 Million Users Installed Malicious Ad Blockers From Chrome Store

If you have installed any of the below-mentioned Ad blocker extension in your Chrome browser, you could have been hacked. A security researcher has spotted five malicious ad blockers extension in the Google Chrome Store that had already been installed by at least 20 million users. Unfortunately,...

Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs

SAN FRANCISCO – Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted to third-party advertisers. “The scale of what we first thought was...

Over 20 million Chrome users have installed fake malicious Ad Blockers

By Waqas Ad Blockers play a vital role in hurting the earnings This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Over 20 million Chrome users have installed fake malicious Ad Blockers...

donate-books.org XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-600452 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| donate-books.org 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...

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Authorization

Due to incorrect authorization in IBM Business Process Manager 8.6 an attacker can claim and work on ad hoc tasks he is not assigned to. IBM X-Force ID: 136151...

Sensitive data types in Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 log files

Challenge When you open a support ticket, Veeam Customer Support specialists may request log files. These log files may contain information to which the terms of the data protection laws or internal company policies apply. Veeam Backup & Replication Veeam Backup & Replication log files may includ...

Workspace Environment Management (WEM): Active Directory search improvements in WEM 4.6

Introduction The Active Directory AD system built into the WEM Administration Console and WEM Infrastructure Server has been refactored in WEM 4.6 to improve performance and stability. Although AD searches performed by the WEM Console and WEM Infrastructure server in previous WEM versions have...

CVE-2018-1057

A flaw was found in the way Samba AD DC validated user permissions. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to change any other users passwords, including administrative users. Mitigation Revoke the change passwords right for everyone from all user objects including computers in the...

Week in security (February 26 – March 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explained how to protect your computer from malicious cryptomining, we gave an encryption 101 lesson using ShiOne ransomware as a case study, and we offered an explanation about SQL injection. We also released a report on the state of malicious cryptomining from...

Authentication flaw

SafeNet Authentication Service for AD FS Agent uses a weak ACL for unspecified installation directories and executable modules, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying an executable module...

Ad Network Circumvents Ad-Blocking Tools To Run In-Browser Cryptojacker Scripts

Cryptojackers are getting resourceful and have figured out how to bypass ad-blocking software and deliver the Coinhive JavaScript miner via browser-based ads. Researchers at Qihoo’s Netlab 360 said it recently spotted an advertising network that was using what is called a domain generation...

Mitm6 - Pwning IPv4 Via IPv6

Mitm6 is a pentesting tool that exploits the default configuration of Windows to take over the default DNS server. It does this by replying to DHCPv6 messages, providing victims with a link-local IPv6 address and setting the attackers host as default DNS server. As DNS server, mitm6 will...

Facebook Will Verify the Physical Location of Ad Buyers with Paper Postcards

It's not a great solution, but it's something: The process of using postcards containing a specific code will be required for advertising that mentions a specific candidate running for a federal office, Katie Harbath, Facebook's global director of policy programs, said. The requirement will not...

A week in security (February 12 – February 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at a huge Android cryptomining campaign, malicious apps on Google Play, and some Apple scams doing the rounds. We also explored the world of healthcare security, and dived into the land of scammy Valentine's Day tricks and cheats. Other news Thought the...

Pi-hole Ad-Blocker Detection (HTTP)

HTTP based detection of the Pi-hole Ad-Blocker. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 ifdescription...

Semrush: Ad Builder Display Ads Path Traversal

Summary: The Semrush Ad Builder for Display Ads is vulnerable to path traversal when extracting zip files and referencing images from the embedded data.csv file. Description: The Semrush Ad Builder for Display Ads allows users to import Display Ads from an uploaded zip file. The backend...