Millions of Brute-Force Attacks Hit Remote Desktop Accounts

A rash of brute-forcing attempts aimed at users of Microsoft’s proprietary Remote Desktop Protocol RDP has come to light, striking millions per week. The attacks are a likely offshoot of cybercriminals looking to take advantage of the unprecedented numbers of employees working from home amid the...

mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mediawikwi reports: T285159, CVE-2023-PENDING SECURITY: X-Forwarded-For header allows brute-forcing autoblocked IP addresses. T326946, CVE-2020-36649 SECURITY: Bundled PapaParse copy in VisualEditor has known ReDos. T330086, CVE-2023-PENDING SECURITY: OATHAuth allows replay attacks when MediaWiki...

COVID-19: How Do I Work from Home Securely?

The coronavirus pandemic—the infection officially designated as COVID-19—is causing upheaval across the globe. Aside from the serious economic and public health implications, one very practical impact of shelter-in-place dictums is to force many companies to support remote working where they can...

New Mirai Variant 'Mukashi' Targets Zyxel NAS Devices

Another variant of the shape-shifting Mirai botnet is attacking Zyxel network-attached storage NAS devices using a critical vulnerability that was only recently discovered, according to security researchers. The variant, dubbed Mukashi, takes advantage of a pre-authentication command injection...

TrickBot Trojan Adds RDP Brute-Forcing to Its Arsenal

The TrickBot malware has added a new feature: A module called rdpScanDll, built for brute-forcing remote desktop protocol RDP accounts. According to BitDefender, the module has been used in campaigns against telecom, education and financial services industry targets in the United States and Hong...

TrickBot Trojan Adds RDP Brute-Forcing to Its Arsenal

The TrickBot malware has added a new feature: A module called rdpScanDll, built for brute-forcing remote desktop protocol RDP accounts. According to BitDefender, the module has been used in campaigns against telecom, education and financial services industry targets in the United States and Hong...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on Moxa MGate MB3170 and MB3270 devices before 4.1, MB3280 and MB3480 devices before 3.1, MB3660 devices before 2.3, and MB3180 devices before 2.1. Insufficient password requirements for the MGate web application may allow an attacker to gain access by brute-forcing accoun...

Extended-SSRF-Search - Smart SSRF Scanner Using Different Methods Like Parameter Brute Forcing In Post And Get...

This tool search for SSRF using predefined settings in different parts of a request path, host, headers, post and get parameters. First step Rename example.app-settings.conf to app-settings.conf and adjust settings. The most important setting is the callback url. I recommend to use burp...

Emotet Now Hacks Nearby Wi-Fi Networks to Spread Like a Worm

A newly uncovered Emotet malware sample has the ability to spread to insecure Wi-Fi networks that are located nearby to an infected device. If the malware can spread to these nearby Wi-Fi networks, it then attempts to infect devices connected to them — a tactic that can rapidly escalate Emotet’s...

Protect

Makers of popular WiFi hacking tool hashcat have discovered a way to improve password brute-forcing of the WPA/WPA2 wifi network security standards. By leveraging the PMKID served by access points in WPA/WPA2 enabled WiFi networks, attackers gain knowledge of a pre-shared key hash, which can be...

Palo Alto Software: weak protection against brute-forcing on login api leads to account takeover

Summary: Weak protection against brute-forcing on login API: https://api.outpost.co/api/v1/login leads to account takeover on https://www.teamoutpost.com/ Steps To Reproduce: Sign in on https://www.teamoutpost.com/ F673002 redirect to https://app.outpost.co/sign-in to login F673012 test any login...

Affirm: Absence of Token expiry leads to Unauthorized login Access

Summary While doing the testing for the mobile app, I observed out that it is possible to bypass the authentication and gain unauthorized access to the user's account bu brute-forcing the PIN due to lack of login token expiry. The way affirm mobile login works is that, User inputs the phone numbe...

Design/Logic Flaw

class.userpeer.php in MFScripts YetiShare 3.5.2 through 4.5.3 uses an insecure method of creating password reset hashes based only on microtime, which allows an attacker to guess the hash and set the password within a few hours by bruteforcing...

Gobuster v3.0 - Directory/File, DNS And VHost Busting Tool Written In Go

Gobuster is a tool used to brute-force: URIs directories and files in web sites. DNS subdomains with wildcard support. Virtual Host names on target web servers. Oh dear God.. WHY!? Because I wanted: 1. ... something that didn't have a fat Java GUI console FTW. 2. ... to build something that just...

Security Advisory - Brute Forcing Encrypted Backup Data Vulnerability on Huawei Smartphones

There is a vulnerability that Huawei smartphone user backup information can be obtained by brute forcing the password for encrypting the backup. Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-08102 This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE ID: CVE-2019-5263. Huawei has...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

magento/community-edition is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists due to the lack of brute-forcing defenses in the token exchange protocol...

CVE-2019-7928

A denial-of-service DoS vulnerability exists in Magento 2.1 prior to 2.1.18, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.9, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.2. By abusing insufficient brute-forcing defenses in the token exchange protocol, an unauthenticated attacker could disrupt transactions between the Magento merchant a...

CVE-2019-7928

CVE-2019-7928 is a DoS vulnerability in Magento with affected versions: 2.1 before 2.1.18, 2.2 before 2.2.9, and 2.3 before 2.3.2. The issue arises from abusing insufficient brute-forcing defenses in the token exchange with PayPal, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to disrupt transactions betw...

CVE-2019-12743

HumHub Social Network Kit Enterprise v1.3.13 allows remote attackers to find the user accounts existing on any Social Network Kits including self-hosted ones by brute-forcing the username after the /u/ initial URI substring, aka Response Discrepancy Information Exposure...

Authentication flaw

Amcrest IPM-721S V2.420.AC00.16.R.20160909 devices have a timeout policy to wait for 5 minutes in case 30 incorrect password attempts are detected using the Web and HTTP API interface provided by the device. However, if the same brute force attempt is performed using the ONVIF specification which...