A week in security (June 21 – June 27)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Want to stop ransomware attacks? Send the cybercriminals to jail, says Brian Honan: Lock and Code S02E11 Atomic research institute breached via VPN vulnerability Hotel staff bust Hermes SMS scammer with suspiciously large number of cables City of Liège hit by...

Threat Source newsletter (June 24, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. Even though spam emails asking for gift cards may seem like the oldest trick in the book, they're still effective in 2021. The FBI estimates that business email compromise cost victims around $1.8 billion in 2020,... This is only t...

WordPress Ultimate Gift Cards For WooCommerce plugin <= 2.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered by Jerome Bruandet NinTechNet in WordPress Ultimate Gift Cards For WooCommerce plugin versions = 2.1.1. Solution Update the WordPress Ultimate Gift Cards For WooCommerce plugin to the latest available version at least 2.1.2...

Internet Bug Bounty: Fragmentation and Aggregation Flaws in Wi-Fi

I discovered three design flaws in the Wi-Fi standard and widespread related implementation flaws see GitHub overview and test tool. Here I'll specifically cover open source software. These findings have not received bug bounties from other sources. Implementation flaws allowing trivial packet...

CVE-2021-33881

On NXP MIFARE Ultralight and NTAG cards, an attacker can interrupt a write operation aka conduct a "tear off" attack over RFID to bypass a Monotonic Counter protection mechanism. The impact depends on how the anti tear-off feature is used in specific applications such as public transportation,...

CVE-2021-33881

On NXP MIFARE Ultralight and NTAG cards, an attacker can interrupt a write operation aka conduct a "tear off" attack over RFID to bypass a Monotonic Counter protection mechanism. The impact depends on how the anti tear-off feature is used in specific applications such as public transportation,...

CVE-2021-33881

On NXP MIFARE Ultralight and NTAG cards, an attacker can interrupt a write operation aka conduct a "tear off" attack over RFID to bypass a Monotonic Counter protection mechanism. The impact depends on how the anti tear-off feature is used in specific applications such as public transportation,...

US Soldiers Exposed Nuclear Secrets on Digital Flash Ccards

Plus: A major hack in Japan, Citizen app run amok, and more of the week’s top security news...

22 people indicted on malware, credit card fraud charges

By Habiba Rashid 22 individuals in the US were indicted of wire fraud and identity theft after having been caught purchasing and using stolen payment cards. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 22 people indicted on malware, credit card fraud charges...

RHEL 8 : opensc (RHSA-2021:1600)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1600 advisory. The OpenSC set of libraries and utilities provides support for working with smart cards. OpenSC focuses on cards that support cryptographic...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: opensc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for opensc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

ALSA-2021:1600 Moderate: opensc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The OpenSC set of libraries and utilities provides support for working with smart cards. OpenSC focuses on cards that support cryptographic operations and enables their use for authentication, mail encryption, or digital signatures. Security Fixes: opensc: heap-based buffer overflow in...

opensc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is available for opensc. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The OpenSC set of libraries and utilities provides support for working with...

Moderate: opensc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The OpenSC set of libraries and utilities provides support for working with smart cards. OpenSC focuses on cards that support cryptographic operations and enables their use for authentication, mail encryption, or digital signatures. Security Fixes: opensc: heap-based buffer overflow in...

Dark Web Getting Loaded With Bogus Covid-19 Vaccines and Forged Cards

Bogus COVID-19 test results, fraudulent vaccination cards, and questionable vaccines are emerging a hot commodity on the dark web in what's the latest in a long list of cybercrimes capitalizing on the coronavirus pandemic. "A new and troubling phenomenon is that consumers are buying COVID-19...

Telegram Fraudsters Ramp Up Forged COVID-19 Vaccine Card Sales

Telegram groups are being abused by fraudsters peddling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to the unvaccinated and anti-vaxxer communities, according to researchers. Brittany Allen, trust and safety architect at Sift, noticed the illicit sales on the encrypted messaging platform as the COVID-19...

Avaddon hackers steal SIM card data from Telstra service provider

By Waqas Hackread.com can confirm that hackers from the Avaddon ransomware gang are claiming to have gained access to “tens of thousands” of SIM cards. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Avaddon hackers steal SIM card data from Telstra service provider...

CVE-2021-0273 Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Trio Chipset: Denial of Service due to packet destined to device's interfaces.

An always-incorrect control flow implementation in the implicit filter terms of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved on ACX5800, EX9200 Series, MX10000 Series, MX240, MX480, MX960 devices with affected Trio line cards allows an attacker to exploit an interdependency in the PFE UCODE...

New JavaScript Exploit Can Now Carry Out DDR4 Rowhammer Attacks

Academics from Vrije University in Amsterdam and ETH Zurich have published a new research paper describing yet another variation of the Rowhammer attack. Dubbed SMASH Synchronized MAny-Sided Hammering, the technique can be used to successfully trigger the attack from JavaScript on modern DDR4 RAM...

623K Payment Cards Stolen from Cybercrime Forum

The Swarmshop cyber-underground “card shop” has been hit by hackers, who lifted the site’s database of stolen payment-card data and leaked it online. That’s according to researchers at Group-IB, who said that the database was posted on a rival underground forum. Card shops, are online cybercrimin...