Google Bans 600 Android Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The company categorizes disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of...

U.S. Department of Interior Grounding All Drones

The Department of Interior is grounding all non-emergency drones due to security concerns: The order comes amid a spate of warnings and bans at multiple government agencies, including the Department of Defense, about possible vulnerabilities in Chinese-made drone systems that could be allowing...

N.Y. Could Ban Cities from Paying Ransomware Attackers

New York State may soon ban municipalities from paying ransomware demands in the event of a cyberattack. State Senators Phil Boyle, George M. Borrello and Sue Serino introduced Senate Bill S7246 earlier this month, in response to the rising tide of cyberattacks targeting government agencies and...

A week in security (December 30 – January 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a dive into edge computing, looked at new web skimmer techniques, and rolled our eyes at silly people doing silly things. Other cybersecurity news: Stills and chills: A Reddit user notices their security camera is grabbing stills from other people’s devices...

The Army Bans TikTok

A million-dollar email scam, a Chinese hacking campaign, and more of the week's top security news...

ban-k.jp Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1030995 Security Researcher geeknik Helped patch 8815 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 20 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting ban-k.jp website and its...

News Wrap: Hotel Robot Hacks, FTC Stalkerware Crackdown

Threatpost editors break down the top news stories for the week ended Oct. 25. The biggest stories include: An unsecured NFC tag opening a door to trivial exploitation of robots that are used inside Japanese hotels. The FTC has banned the sale of three apps – marketed to monitor children and...

Roblox: Insecure redirect rule results in bypassing ban redirect on certain pages

Description Account bans on Roblox work via redirect rules. If an user attempts go to a page that's outside a whitelisted set of rules, they'll be redirected back to the ban page. After researching, I've found that the following rules are whitelisted and bypass this redirect: - Any URLs ending in...

ban-tawai.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher Dipu1A Helped patch 959 vulnerabilities Received 5 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 20 recommendations , a holder of 5 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting ban-tawai.com website and its users. Following coordinated a...

CVE-2017-18462

cPanel before 62.0.17 allows a CPHulk one-day ban bypass when IP based protection is enabled SEC-224...

CVE-2017-18462

cPanel before 62.0.17 allows a CPHulk one-day ban bypass when IP based protection is enabled SEC-224...

Design/Logic Flaw

cPanel before 62.0.17 allows a CPHulk one-day ban bypass when IP based protection is enabled SEC-224...

CVE-2017-18462

cPanel before 62.0.17 allows a CPHulk one-day ban bypass when IP based protection is enabled SEC-224...

CVE-2017-18462

cPanel before 62.0.17 allows a CPHulk one-day ban bypass when IP-based protection is enabled (SEC-224). The issue is documented across multiple sources as a vulnerability in cPanel up to version 62.0.16, with the fix in 62.0.17 identified. Root cause details are not elaborated in the provided doc...

CVE-2017-18462: Undefined Security Weakness

cPanel before 62.0.17 allows a CPHulk one-day ban bypass when IP based protection is enabled SEC-224...

PT-2019-8397

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cPanel versions prior to 62.0.17 Description The issue allows a bypass of the CPHulk one-day ban when IP-based protection is enabled. Recommendations For versions prior to 62.0.17, update to version 62.0.17 or later to resolve the issue...

Applied Cryptography is Banned in Oregon Prisons

My Applied Cryptography is on a list of books banned in Oregon prisons. It's not me -- and it's not cryptography -- it's that the prisons ban books that teach people to code. The subtitle is "Algorithms, Protocols, and Source Code in C" -- and that's the reason. My more recent Cryptography...

A week in security (June 24 – 30)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we peeled back the mystery on an elusive malware campaign that relied on blank JavaScript injections, detailed for readers our latest telemetry on the tricky GreenFlash Sundown exploit, and looked at one of the top campaigns directing traffic toward scareware pages...

BlueGhost - A Network Tool Designed To Assist Blue Teams In Banning Attackers From Linux Servers

This tool utilizes various linux network tools and bash scripting to assist blue teams on defending debian and ubuntu based servers from malicious attackers. Scan/Ban shows connected IPs, scans IP addresses for open ports using nmap and whois search to gather reconnaissance on connected IPs, show...

5,000 Twitter Accounts Linked to Disinformation Campaigns

Twitter has removed six sets of accounts that the site has deemed to be devoted to coordinated, state-backed propaganda activities – totaling about 5,000 accounts in all. “We believe that people and organizations with the advantages of institutional power and which consciously abuse our service a...