SpeakUp Linux Backdoor Sets Up for Major Attack

LAS VEGAS — A backdoor trojan dubbed “SpeakUp” has been spotted exploiting the Linux servers that run more than 90 percent of the top 1 million domains in the U.S. It uses a complex bag of tricks to infect hosts and to propagate, which analysts say could indicate that it’s poised for a major...

TheMoon Rises Again, With a Botnet-as-a-Service Threat

TheMoon, an IoT botnet targeting home routers and modems, is entering a new phase, as it were: It has added a previously undocumented module that allows it to be sold as-a-service to other malicious actors. This has already had significant real-world consequences, according to CenturyLink Threat...

Linux.org Redirected to NSFW Page Spewing Racial Epithets

The Linux organization said late Friday that its main domain, Linux.org, was hacked and defaced in a DNS hijacking incident. The group said that someone was able to compromise the registrar account for the domain and point its DNS to another server — as well as lock administrators out from changi...

Design/Logic Flaw

Samba from version 4.9.0 and before version 4.9.3 that have AD DC configurations watching for bad passwords to restrict brute forcing of passwords in a window of more than 3 minutes may not watch for bad passwords at all. The primary risk from this issue is with regards to domains that have been...

CVE-2018-16857

Samba from version 4.9.0 and before version 4.9.3 that have AD DC configurations watching for bad passwords to restrict brute forcing of passwords in a window of more than 3 minutes may not watch for bad passwords at all. The primary risk from this issue is with regards to domains that have been...

CVE-2018-16857

Samba from version 4.9.0 and before version 4.9.3 that have AD DC configurations watching for bad passwords to restrict brute forcing of passwords in a window of more than 3 minutes may not watch for bad passwords at all. The primary risk from this issue is with regards to domains that have been...

Subdomain Enumeration Tool: Amass

Amass is the subdomain enumeration tool with the greatest number of disparate data sources that performs analysis of the resolved names in order to deliver the largest number of quality results. Amass performs scraping of data sources, recursive brute forcing, crawling of web archives, permuting...

kernel: Buffer over-read in keyring subsystem allows exposing potentially sensitive information to local attacker

A flaw has been identified in the Linux kernel's implementation of validmasterdesc in which a memory buffer would be compared to a userspace value with an incorrect size of comparison. By bruteforcing the comparison, an attacker could determine what was in memory after the description and possibl...

Prowli Malware Targeting Servers, Routers, and IoT Devices

After the discovery of massive VPNFilter malware botnet, security researchers have now uncovered another giant botnet that has already compromised more than 40,000 servers, modems and internet-connected devices belonging to a wide number of organizations across the world. Dubbed Operation Prowli,...

kernel: Buffer over-read in keyring subsystem allows exposing potentially sensitive information to local attacker

A flaw has been identified in the Linux kernel's implementation of validmasterdesc in which a memory buffer would be compared to a userspace value with an incorrect size of comparison. By bruteforcing the comparison, an attacker could determine what was in memory after the description and possibl...

An Android App for RFID Card Cloning: Project Walrus

Walrus is an Android app that simplifies using several existing contactless card cloning devices during red team engagements and physical security assessments. It offers a common interface and database for storing cloned cards. Currently, Walrus supports the industry standard Proxmark 3, Chameleo...

μTorrent (uTorrent) Classic/Web - JSON-RPC Remote Code Execution / Information Disclosure

By default, utorrent create an HTTP RPC server on port 10000 uTorrent classic or 19575 uTorrent web. There are numerous problems with these RPC servers that can be exploited by any website using XMLHTTPRequest. To be clear, visiting any website is enough to compromise these applications. uTorrent...

μTorrent (uTorrent) ClassicWeb - JSON-RPC Remote Code Execution Information Disclosure

μTorrent uTorrent ClassicWeb - JSON-RPC Remote Code Execution Information Disclosure By default, utorrent create an HTTP RPC server on port 10000 uTorrent classic or 19575 uTorrent web. There are numerous problems with these RPC servers that can be exploited by any website using XMLHTTPRequest. T...

CVE-2017-2551

Vulnerability in Wordpress plugin BackWPup before v3.4.2 allows possible brute forcing of backup file for download...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in Wordpress plugin BackWPup before v3.4.2 allows possible brute forcing of backup file for download...

WordPress BackWPup plugin <=3.4.1 - Unrestricted Backup File Download

Unrestricted Backup File Download vulnerability found by Larry W. Cashdollar in WordPress BackWPup plugin versions =3.4.1. Backup files are stored insecurely and could be discovered by Google dork and exploited further even for brute-forcing. Solution Update the WordPress BackWPup plugin to the...

CVE-2017-2551

Vulnerability in Wordpress plugin BackWPup before v3.4.2 allows possible brute forcing of backup file for download...

Crowbar - Brute Forcing Tool (SSH, OpenVPN, RDP, VNC)

Crowbar formally known as Levye is a brute forcing tool that can be used during penetration tests. It was developed to brute force some protocols in a different manner according to other popular brute forcing tools. As an example, while most brute forcing tools use username and password for SSH...

Session Hijacking Bug Exposed GitLab Users Private Tokens

GitLab, the popular web-based Git repository manager, fixed a vulnerability recently that could have exposed its users to session hijacking attacks. Daniel Svartman, a security researcher with Imperva, discovered the issue in May but couldn’t disclose it until Wednesday, after GitLab was able to...

CVE-2017-7551

A flaw was found in the way 389-ds-base handled authentication attempts against locked accounts. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to continue password brute-forcing attacks against LDAP accounts, thereby bypassing the protection offered by the directory server's password lockout...