A ‘Bulletproof’ Criminal VPN Was Taken Down in a Global Sting

Plus: Dozens of reporters get hit by an iMessage exploit, continued fallout from the SolarWinds hack, and more of the week’s top security news...

Cybercriminals' Favorite Bulletproof VPN Service Shuts Down In Global Action

Law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, along with Europol's European Cybercrime Centre EC3, announced today the coordinated takedown of Safe-Inet, a popular virtual private network VPN service that was used to facilitate criminal activity. The three domai...

Cybercriminals' Favorite Bulletproof VPN Service Shuts Down In Global Action

Law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, along with Europol's European Cybercrime Centre EC3, announced today the coordinated takedown of Safe-Inet, a popular virtual private network VPN service that was used to facilitate criminal activity. The three domai...

The forgotten domain: Exploring a link between Magecart Group 5 and the Carbanak APT

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura, William Tsing, and Adam Thomas. In a previous post, we described the possible overlap between certain domains registered by Magecart Group 4 and the Cobalt gang. While attribution is always a difficult endeavor, sharing TTPs can help others to connect...

Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as "Yalishanda," "Downlow" and "Stasvl" has run one of the most popular "bulletproof" Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers. What follows are a series of clues...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - Storage-Path Denial of Service (PoC)

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - Storage-Path Denial of Service PoC Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - 'Storage-Path' Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor Mondragón Discovery Date: 2019-05-18 Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link:...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - DNS Address Denial of Service (PoC)

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - DNS Address Denial of Service PoC Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - 'DNS Address' Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor Mondragón Discovery Date: 2019-05-18 Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link:...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - (Storage-Path) Denial of Service Exploit

Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - 'Storage-Path' Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor Mondragón Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link: http://bpftpserver.com/products/bpftpserver/windows/download Tested Version: 2019.0.0.50 Tested on: Windows 10 Single...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - (DNS Address) Denial of Service Exploit

Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - 'DNS Address' Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor Mondragón Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link: http://bpftpserver.com/products/bpftpserver/windows/download Tested Version: 2019.0.0.50 Tested on: Windows 10 Single...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - 'DNS Address' Denial of Service (PoC)

Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - 'DNS Address' Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor Mondragón Discovery Date: 2019-05-18 Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link: http://bpftpserver.com/products/bpftpserver/windows/download Tested Version: 2019.0.0.50 Tested...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 DNS Address / Storage-Path Denial Of Service

Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - 'DNS Address' Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor Mondragón Discovery Date: 2019-05-18 Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link: http://bpftpserver.com/products/bpftpserver/windows/download Tested Version: 2019.0.0.50 Tested...

Feds Target $100M ‘GozNym’ Cybercrime Network

Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today unsealed charges against 11 alleged members of the GozNym malware network, an international cybercriminal syndicate suspected of stealing $100 million from more than 41,000 victims with the help of a stealthy banking trojan by the sam...

Cybercrime Gang Behind GozNym Banking Malware Dismantled

The cybercrime network behind the GozNym malware, used to siphon $100 million out of its victims, has been dismantled in a massive international investigation, according to authorities. Europol said on Thursday that they are charging 10 members of the GozNym criminal network with spreading the...

'GozNym' Banking Malware Gang Dismantled by International Law Enforcement

In a joint effort by several law enforcement agencies from 6 different countries, officials have dismantled a major global organized cybercrime network behind GozNym banking malware. GozNym banking malware is responsible for stealing nearly $100 million from over 41,000 victims across the globe,...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - SMTP Server Denial of Service Exploit

Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor Mondragón Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link: http://bpftpserver.com/products/bpftpserver/windows/download Tested Version: 2019.0.0.50 Tested on: Windows 7 x64 Service Pack 1 Steps t...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - 'SMTP Server' Denial of Service (PoC)

Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor Mondragón Discovery Date: 2018-02-19 Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link: http://bpftpserver.com/products/bpftpserver/windows/download Tested Version: 2019.0.0.50 Tested on: Windows 7...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 Denial Of Service

Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor MondragA3n Discovery Date: 2018-02-19 Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link: http://bpftpserver.com/products/bpftpserver/windows/download Tested Version: 2019.0.0.50 Tested on: Windows ...

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - SMTP Server Denial of Service (PoC)

BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - SMTP Server Denial of Service PoC Exploit Title: BulletProof FTP Server 2019.0.0.50 - Denial of Service PoC Discovery by: Victor Mondragón Discovery Date: 2018-02-19 Vendor Homepage: http://bpftpserver.com/ Software Link:...

WordPress BulletProof Security Plugin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed in PHP by the WordPress Software Foundation, which supports setting up personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.BulletProof Security is one of the security plug-ins against brute-force cracking. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the...

CVE-2015-9230

In the admin/db-backup-security/db-backup-security.php page in the BulletProof Security plugin before .52.5 for WordPress, XSS is possible for remote authenticated administrators via the DBTablePrefix parameter...