Adware Spreading Via Social Engineering, Facebook Messenger

Attackers have taken to Facebook Messenger with a combination of social engineering and malicious JavaScript to spread adware, something that’s likely earning them a small chunk of change in the process. David Jacoby, a senior security researcher with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis...

Over 500 Android Apps On Google Play Store Found Spying On 100 Million Users

Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be infected with a malicious ad library that secretly distributes spyware to users and can perform dangerous operations. Since 90 per cent of Android apps is free to...

Hiking Club Malvertisements Drop Monero Miners Via Neptune Exploit Kit

Exploit kit EK activity has been on the decline ever since Angler Exploit Kit was shut down in 2016. Fewer people using Internet Explorer and a drop in browser support for Adobe Flash – two primary targets of many exploit kits – have also contributed to this decline. Additionally, some popular...

Android Spyware Linked to Chinese SDK Forces Google to Boot 500 Apps

More than 500 Android mobile apps have been removed from Google Play after it was discovered that an embedded advertising SDK could be leveraged to quietly install spyware on devices. The SDK, called Igexin, was developed by a Chinese company and may have been used to install malware that could,...

Hiking Club Malvertisements Drop Monero Miners Via Neptune Exploit Kit

Exploit kit EK activity has been on the decline ever since Angler Exploit Kit was shut down in 2016. Fewer people using Internet Explorer and a drop in browser support for Adobe Flash – two primary targets of many exploit kits – have also contributed to this decline. Additionally, some popular...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : freeradius-server (SUSE-SU-2017:2202-1)

This update for freeradius-server fixes the following issues : - update to 3.0.15 bsc1049086 - Bind the lifetime of program name and python path to the module - CVE-2017-10978: FR-GV-201: Check input / output length in makesecret bsc1049086 - CVE-2017-10983: FR-GV-206: Fix read overflow when...

Seven More Chrome Extensions Compromised

The number of compromised Chrome browser extensions is growing beyond the initial Aug. 1 hijacking of the OCR add-on called Copyfish. Added to list are seven additional legitimate Chrome Extensions that attackers took over and used to manipulate internet traffic and web-based ads, according to...

CVE-2017-3562

Vulnerability in the Oracle Applications DBA component of Oracle E-Business Suite subcomponent: AD Utilities. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.3, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.5 and 12.2.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the Oracle Applications DBA component of Oracle E-Business Suite subcomponent: AD Utilities. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.3, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.5 and 12.2.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2017-20202

Web Developer for Chrome v0.4.9 contained malicious code that generated a domain via a DGA and fetched a remote script. The fetched script conditionally loaded follow-on modules that performed extensive ad substitution and malvertising, displayed fake “repair” alerts that redirected users to...

Someone Hijacks A Popular Chrome Extension to Push Malware

Phishers have recently hacked an extension for Google Chrome after compromising the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software and abused to distribute spam messages to unsuspecting users. Dubbed Copyfish, the extension allows users to extract text from images, PDF documents...

Update to Microsoft Entra Connect causes SQL VSS issues

Article Applicability This article is specific to environments where the Azure AD Connect or Microsoft Entra Connect package is installed on the machine where Microsoft SQL Server is installed. Challenge You receive the following error during the guest processing: Unable to release guest. Error:...

OLX: I found a way to instantly take over ads by other users and change them (IDOR)

A local LetGo webpage was vulnerable to Insecure Data Object Reference issue which could have lead to ad hijack or settings change price, description, location. @kciredor discovered this vulnerability and notified us about this. We would like to thank you for this report. Please do not hesitate t...

WordPress Plugin Ads Pro 3.4 - Cross-Site Scripting SQL Injection

WordPress Plugin Ads Pro 3.4 - Cross-Site Scripting SQL Injection Exploit Title: Ads Pro Plugin - Multi-Purpose WordPress Advertising Manager = 5.0.12 AND time-based blind Payload: bsaprostats=1&[email protected]&bsaproid=xx AND S...

A week in security (July 17 – July 23)

Over the last week, we have covered Play Protect, android’s new security system and how the Dutch police ran Hansa Market after the take down of Alpha Bay, both major players on the Dark Web. We also provided some tips on how to stay cyber safe this summer. We also saw how the Terror exploit kit...

Unikrn: Flash CSRF: Update Ad Frequency %: [cp-ng.pinion.gg]

Description: ----------- Attacker can update the user's Ad Frequency % using flash + 307 redirect trick by making post request to particular endpoint. Step To Reproduce: ----------- + Get logged at: https://cp-ng.pinion.gg + Visit: http://geekboy.ninja/poc/freq.swf + Ad Frequency should be update...

Lenovo Connect2 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Lenovo Connect2 is a free management tool for transferring content between computers and cell phones from the Chinese company Lenovo. A security vulnerability exists in Lenovo Connect2 that stems from the program storing ad-hoc connection passwords in a user-readable location. An attacker could u...

Code injection

In Lenovo Connect2 versions earlier than 4.2.5.4885 for Windows and 4.2.5.3071 for Android, when an ad-hoc connection is made between two systems for the purpose of sharing files, the password for this ad-hoc connection will be stored in a user-readable location. An attacker with read access to t...

CVE-2017-3742

In Lenovo Connect2 versions earlier than 4.2.5.4885 for Windows and 4.2.5.3071 for Android, when an ad-hoc connection is made between two systems for the purpose of sharing files, the password for this ad-hoc connection will be stored in a user-readable location. An attacker with read access to t...

CVE-2017-3742

In Lenovo Connect2 versions earlier than 4.2.5.4885 for Windows and 4.2.5.3071 for Android, when an ad-hoc connection is made between two systems for the purpose of sharing files, the password for this ad-hoc connection will be stored in a user-readable location. An attacker with read access to t...