Traffic Exchange Networks Distributing Malware Disguised as Cracked Software

An ongoing campaign has been found to leverage a network of websites acting as a "dropper as a service" to deliver a bundle of malware payloads to victims looking for "cracked" versions of popular business and consumer applications. "These malware included an assortment of click fraud bots, other...

Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.62 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape the page parameter before outputting it back in attributes, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=sbbmy-custom-submenu-page HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8...

Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.62 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape the page parameter before outputting it back in attributes, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues PoC POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=sbbmy-custom-submenu-page HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8...

[The Lost Bots] Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competition

!\The Lost Bots\ Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competitionhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpeg Welcome back for a special bonus edition of The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice...

Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.60 - Authenticated SQL Injections

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

Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.60 - Authenticated SQL Injections

The plugin did not validate or escape the order and orderby GET parameter in some of its admin dashboard pages, leading to Authenticated SQL Injections PoC https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=sbbmy-custom-submenu-page=1+AND+%28SELECT+4242+FROM+%28SELECT%28SLEEP%285%29%29%29aaa%29=asc...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 1: External Threat Intelligence

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 1: External Threat Intelligencehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.png Welcome to The Lost Bots, a new vlog series where Rapid7 resident expert and former CISO Jeffrey Gardner virtually sits down with fell...

A week in security (July 5 – July 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Racing against a real-life ransomware attack. Podcast with Ski Kacoroski. Kaseya CEO: “The impact of this incredibly sophisticated attack is very minimal” Patch now! Emergency fix for PrintNightmare released by Microsoft. Game over: Apex Legends players locked out ...

How Fake Accounts and Sneaker-Bots Took Over the Internet

Recently, one of my friends from my submarine days sent me a friend request on Facebook. The weird thing is, I was already connected with this friend. Looking further at the profile, I noticed a few of the same pictures but only 11 friends. So I knew this was some scammer and, being me, I message...

CVE-2021-35197

An improper authorization vulnerability was found in mediawiki. Mediawiki bots may have unintended API access even when a sitewide block has been applied. An attacker can use this vulnerability to potentially utilize a bot to access the mediawiki API and conduct actions like purge pages...

CVE-2021-35197

In MediaWiki before 1.31.15, 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.3, and 1.36.x before 1.36.1, bots have certain unintended API access. When a bot account has a "sitewide block" applied, it is able to still "purge" pages through the MediaWiki Action API which a "sitewide block" should have prevented...

Code injection

In MediaWiki before 1.31.15, 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.3, and 1.36.x before 1.36.1, bots have certain unintended API access. When a bot account has a "sitewide block" applied, it is able to still "purge" pages through the MediaWiki Action API which a "sitewide block" should have prevented...

Bots can frontrun market maker orders and cancel orders.

Handle tensors Vulnerability details Impact Market makers will not be able to have competitive spreads or cancel their orders to update their strategies. It will be difficult for them to provide liquidity on the platform, which will hurt the platform overall. Proof of Concept In traditional finan...

Infographic: Bad Bot Sophistication Levels

All bad bots interact with applications in the same way a legitimate user would, making them harder to detect and block. They enable high-speed abuse, misuse, and attacks on your websites, mobile apps, and APIs. They allow bot operators, attackers, unsavory competitors, and fraudsters to perform ...

Infographic: How Do You Stop Bad Bots?

According to Imperva’s Bad Bot Report 2021, bad bot traffic has maintained its upwards trend, amounting to 25.6 percent of all traffic in 2020, an all-time high. Combined with good bot traffic, 40.8 percent of internet traffic in 2020 wasn’t human, as human traffic decreased by 5.7 percent to 59....

Microsoft Gets Second Shot at Banning hiQ from Scraping LinkedIn User Data

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted LinkedIn another legal option to try to prevent rival hiQ Labs from scraping public information from its user profiles, something the Microsoft-owned professional networking platform has claimed is a violation of user privacy and a misuse of its data. The court...

Infographic: What Are Bad Bots Doing?

By now, anyone with even a passing interest in how the Web functions has heard of bots. Most people understand that there are good and bad bots. Legitimate bots like Googlebot, an application used by Google to crawl the Internet and index it for search, and others like it represent tremendous...

Infographic: How Are Bad Bots Hurting Your Business?

Bad bots are software applications which run automated tasks with malicious intent over the internet. They scrape data from sites without permission in order to reuse it and gain a competitive edge e.g. pricing, inventory levels, proprietary content, etc.. They are used for scalping, the act of...

Visualize and Analyze Bots With Real User Monitoring

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Visualize and Analyze Bots with Real User Monitoring

You interact with more than just customers on your website. Bots make up a disproportionate amount of traffic, which can skew human behavior analysis data -- and cause you to make the wrong business decisions...