Why Bad Bots Are the Digital Demons of the Internet

In the dimly lit corners of the internet, where shadows flicker and eerie silences prevail, there lurks entities of malevolent intent. They are not the stuff of old wives tales or campfire ghost stories. We’re talking about bad bots, the digital bogeymen of the digital age. These nefarious beings...

Front-running the Vault721.sol::build(address _user) can DoS the protocol for new users

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact New users can't register and use the protocol until they discover the deployed address of their proxy, which is detrimental to the protocol's reputation Proof of Concept Attackers/bots are able to DOS the protocol for the new users who wants to create...

Privilege Escalation

mattermost is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Mattermost fails to properly verify the bot permissions, allowing a User Manager role with user edit permissions to manage/update bots...

Put Your Best Foot Forward: The Impact of Sneaker Bots on Holiday Shopping

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PT-2023-31858 · Unknown · Mattermost

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mattermost affected versions not specified Description: The issue arises from Mattermost's failure to properly verify permissions when managing or updating a bot. This allows a User Manager role with user edit permissions to manage or update...

Missing slippage control while depositing rewards in SafEth and VotiumStrategy

Lines of code Vulnerability details Summary Deposits to SafEth and VotiumStrategy coming from rewards lack slippage control, making them susceptible to sandwich attacks by MEV bots, which can result in a loss of funds for the protocol. Impact Rewards coming from the VotiumStrategy contract are...

Are You Willing to Pay the High Cost of Compromised Credentials?

Weak password policies leave organizations vulnerable to attacks. But are the standard password complexity requirements enough to secure them? 83% of compromised passwords would satisfy the password complexity and length requirements of compliance standards. That's because bad actors already have...

Proton CAPTCHA: New Privacy-First CAPTCHA Defense Against Bots

By Waqas Meet new Proton CAPTCHA from Proton AG, a custom-built CAPTCHA system designed to thwart bots and spammers. Proton… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Proton CAPTCHA: New Privacy-First CAPTCHA Defense Against Bots...

Missing slippage protection in _swap()

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Without slippage, If the price of the tokens changes significantly during the swap, it could result in a large slippage, causing users to lose a significant amount of funds. An attacker can watch the mempool and then using flash bots execute a sandwich...

CVE-2023-32496

Auth. admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Bill Minozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin = 7.31 versions...

CVE-2023-32496

Auth. admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Bill Minozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin = 7.31 versions...

CVE-2023-32496

CVE-2023-32496 corresponds to a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection (StopBadBots) for versions

CVE-2023-32496: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Auth. admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Bill Minozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin = 7.31 versions...

PT-2023-23830 · WordPress · Bill Minozzi Block Bad Bots/Stop Bad Bots Crawlers/Spiders/Anti Spam Protection

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bill Minozzi Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin versions prior to 7.32 Description: The issue is related to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability that affects the Bill Minozzi Block...

Use of slot0 to get sqrtPriceLimitX96 can lead to price manipulation

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The contracts functions have used UniswapV3.slot0 to get the value of sqrtPriceX96 which it use to perform the swap, however the sqrtPriceX96 gotten from Uniswap.slot0 is the most recent data point and can be manipulated easily via MEV bots & Flashloans...

Conquering Adversarial Bots and Humans to Prevent Account Takeovers

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Introducing Integrated API Abuse Prevention to Combat Bad Bots

In recent years theres been a rise in "API Abuse" attacks, which includes detrimental automated behaviors such as malicious bots, account takeover ATO, credential stuffing, application layer L7 DDoS, data scraping, and more. For instance, in April-2021 malicious actors scraped the personal data o...

How Ticket Scalping Impacts Asia’s Live Entertainment Industry

Asia’s booming live entertainment industry has recently been plagued by a growing problem of ticket scalping. The term refers to the act of purchasing live event tickets in bulk by individuals, often through the use of automation aka bots, to later resell them at exorbitant prices. The issue isn’...

CVE-2023-33198

tgstation-server is a production scale tool for BYOND server management. The DreamMaker API DMAPI chat channel cache can possibly be poisoned by a tgstation-server TGS restart and reattach. This can result in sending chat messages to one of any of the configured IRC or Discord channels for the...

Command injection

tgstation-server is a production scale tool for BYOND server management. The DreamMaker API DMAPI chat channel cache can possibly be poisoned by a tgstation-server TGS restart and reattach. This can result in sending chat messages to one of any of the configured IRC or Discord channels for the...