Slippage protection

Handle pauliax Vulnerability details Impact Consider adding a configurable slippage parameter here to prevent users suffering from sandwitch bots: minAmountsOut0 = 0; minAmountsOut1 = 0; IVault.ExitPoolRequest ... minAmountsOut and used in both sNOTE and TreasuryManager contracts:...

WordPress Blackhole for Bad Bots plugin <= 3.3.1 - Arbitrary IP Address Blocking via IP Spoofing vulnerability

Arbitrary IP Address Blocking via IP Spoofing vulnerability discovered by Daniel Ruf in WordPress Blackhole for Bad Bots plugin versions = 3.3.1. Solution Update the WordPress Blackhole for Bad Bots plugin to the latest available version at least 3.3.2...

Blackhole for Bad Bots < 3.3.2 - Arbitrary IP Address Blocking via IP Spoofing

The plugin uses headers such as CF-CONNECTING-IP, CLIENT-IP etc to determine the IP address of requests hitting the blackhole URL, which allows them to be spoofed. This could result in blocking arbitrary IP addresses, such as legitimate/good search engine crawlers / bots. This could also be abuse...

What is API Abuse ❓ Prevention measures.

APIs are paramount for constructing a steadfast and constant communication bridge that empowers devices to pass-on desired information seamlessly. Hackers adopt many ways to exploit the APIs and corrupt the targeted device. This API exploitation is a potential threat to API security and needs...

What is API Abuse ❓ Prevention measures.

APIs are paramount for constructing a steadfast and constant communication bridge that empowers devices to pass-on desired information seamlessly. Hackers adopt many ways to exploit the APIs and corrupt the targeted device. This API exploitation is a potential threat to API security and needs...

Threat Advisory: E-commerce Bots Use Domain Registration Services for Mass Account Fraud

While researching a recent large-scale bot campaign with CQ Prime Threat Research team lead, Dean Lendrum, we found attackers using domain parking and monetization services to register multiple domains, creating a large number of fake eCommerce accounts per domain. TL; DR ------ Analysis of...

2021 in Review, Part 1: 5 Cybersecurity Topics that Made News

Its been another chaotic year in cybersecurity, as protecting web applications and stopping sensitive data breaches remain top-of-mind issues and continue to generate headline news. As 2021 comes to a close, cybersecurity and all the industries it serves is dealing with an unprecedented zero-day...

CVE-2021-24863

CVE-2021-24863 affects the WordPress plugin StopBadBots (StopBadBots WordPress plugin) prior to version 6.67. The vulnerability is a SQL injection caused by failure to sanitize and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to save it. Impact is unauthenticated access leading to dat...

Grinchbots strike again this holiday shopping season as bot traffic spikes 73%

The days are getting chilly, holiday drinks are back on the menu at your favorite café and family gatherings are planned. In an almost pavlovian response, Grinchbots have also returned in record levels to ruin your online holiday shopping experience. In the State of Security Within eCommerce in...

Scalpers, and their bot armies, swing in to net web-based Spiderman tickets

29 November 2021 was “Spider Monday” and tickets for Marvel’s film Spider-Man: No Way Home went on sale with the sort of marketing fervor for which Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU are famous. As tickets to one of the most eagerly anticipated Christmas films featuring one of the most...

UniswapHandler vulnerable to sandwich bots

Handle Koustre Vulnerability details Impact Any user or contract that has the buyer role that uses the functions buyMalt and sellMalt will be vulnerable to sandwich attacks from bots that will causes slippage loses to users. Proof of Concept Provide direct links to all referenced code in GitHub...

Getting Ready for Some Holiday Shopping? So Are the Bots

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By the Numbers: The State of Security in eCommerce

The ongoing global pandemic has accelerated eCommerce growth and pushed more consumers online. More consumers mean a larger threat landscape and ensure that cybersecurity issues remain a significant, ongoing challenge for the retail industry. Based on a 12-month analysis by Imperva Research Labs,...

Holiday Shopping Season is Upon Us: The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2021

The eCommerce industry has gone through years worth of changes in a matter of just a mere couple of months as the global pandemic emerged back in March of 2020. These changes have led to skyrocketing growth for the industry, with sales predicted to hit $4.921 trillion by the end of this year. And...

Telegram Bots Stealing One-Time Passwords

By Waqas So far two Telegram bots called SMSRanger and BloodOTPbot have been found taking part in this malicious campaign. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Telegram Bots Stealing One-Time Passwords...

Threat Actors Weaponize Telegram Bots for ExtortionThreat Actors Weaponize Telegram Bots to Compromise PayPal Accounts

Cybercriminals are using Telegram bots to steal one-time password tokens OTPs and defraud people through banks and online payment systems, including PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, new research has found. Researchers from Intel 471 discovered the campaign, which has been operational since June,...

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in hdinnovations/unit3d-community-edition

Description CSRF allows enable/disable bots CSRF allows flush chatbox Proof of Concept After logging in to unit3d.site, Access this link: https://unit3d.site/dashboard/chat/bots/2/disable, https://unit3d.site/dashboard/chat/bots/2/enable See that the chat bot is disabled/enabled correspondingly...

_addLiquidity will lose user funds due to frontrunning.

Handle tensors Vulnerability details Impact If addLiquidity is ever called with funds at stake anything more than a few thousand dollars it becomes profitable for MEV bots and other frontrunners to frontrun the addLiquidity call by skewing the pool reserves lowering the amount of LP tokens return...

CVE-2021-24727 Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.60 - Authenticated SQL Injections

The StopBadBots WordPress plugin before 6.60 did not validate or escape the order and orderby GET parameter in some of its admin dashboard pages, leading to Authenticated SQL Injections...

Gamers beware: The risks of Real Money Trading (RMT) explained

Any game with an online component can be at risk from a practice known as Real Money Trading RMT, where in-game items, artefacts, characters and the like are sold for real money. It’s a big problem for developers, especially in competitive and / or massively multiplayer online role-playing game...