Cross site request forgery (csrf)

The Contact Form Advanced Database WordPress plugin through 1.0.8 does not have any authorisation as well as CSRF checks in its deletecf7data and exportcf7data AJAX actions, available to any authenticated users, which could allow users with a role as low as subscriber to call them. The...

CVE-2021-24790 Contact Form Advanced Database <= 1.0.8 - Unauthorised AJAX Calls

The Contact Form Advanced Database WordPress plugin through 1.0.8 does not have any authorisation as well as CSRF checks in its deletecf7data and exportcf7data AJAX actions, available to any authenticated users, which could allow users with a role as low as subscriber to call them. The...

Fueled by Pandemic Realities, Grinchbots Aggressively Surge in Activity

The festive season is moving into full swing, and so is holiday shopping – including special product launches and sales. But just as we collectively look forward to leisurely browsing for deals from the couch, perhaps with a mug of hot cocoa, “grinchbots” have emerged to burn it all down. Accordi...

A Year After SolarWinds, Supply Chain Threats Still Loom

The Russia-led campaign was a wake-up call to the industry, but there's no one solution to the threat...

Malicious npm Code Packages Built for Hijacking Discord Servers

A series of malicious packages in the Node.js package manager npm code repository are looking to harvest Discord tokens, which can be used to take over unsuspecting users’ accounts and servers. The npm repository is an open-source home for JavaScript developers to share and reuse code blocks. The...

CVE-2021-43532

The 'Copy Image Link' context menu action would copy the final image URL after redirects. By embedding an image that triggered authentication flows - in conjunction with a Content Security Policy that stopped a redirection chain in the middle - the final image URL could be one that contained an...

New reforms will enhance the security and resilience of Australia’s critical infrastructure

Improving the security of critical infrastructure has become the focus of many governments around the world, including Australia. This is because a failure or disruption in one area of critical infrastructure can have flow on effects that affect a nation’s security, economy and sovereignty. In th...

Latest Firefox 95 Includes RLBox Sandboxing to Protect Browser from Malicious Code

Mozilla is beginning to roll out Firefox 95 with a new sandboxing technology called RLBox that prevents untrusted code and other security vulnerabilities from causing "accidental defects as well as supply-chain attacks." Dubbed "RLBox" and implemented in collaboration with researchers at the...

Crypto-Exchange BitMart to Pay Users for $200M Theft

Cryptocurrency exchange BitMart has pledged to dig into its own pocket to pay back users affected in a cyberattack that drained it of about $150 million worth of cryptocurrencies, according to a tweet put out by BitMart CEO Sheldon Xia on Monday. 2/4 BitMart will use our own funding to cover the...

Hackers Steal $200 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Tokens from BitMart Exchange

Cryptocurrency trading platform BitMart has disclosed a "large-scale security breach" that it blamed on a stolen private key, resulting in the theft of more than $150 million in various cryptocurrencies. The breach is said to have impacted two of its hot wallets on the Ethereum ETH blockchain and...

Pandemic-Influenced Car Shopping: Just Use the Manufacturer API

The pandemic has caused huge disruptions in the supply chain for a wide variety of industries. One of the major areas feeling the global issues is the car industry. Fortunately, I found a way to exploit a manufacturer API to minimize my frustration. First, some background: Many outlets have widel...

Behind the unprecedented effort to protect customers against the NOBELIUM nation-state attack

This is the third in a four-part blog series on the NOBELIUM nation-state cyberattack. In December 2020, Microsoft began sharing details with the world about what became known as the most sophisticated nation-state cyberattack in history. Microsoft’s four-part video series “Decoding NOBELIUM” pul...

APT annual review 2021

In the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky, we track the ongoing activities of more than 900 advanced threat actors and activity clusters; you can find our quarterly overviews here, here and here. For this annual review, we have tried to focus on what we consider to be the most...

The role of runtime protection in eCommerce security

What is e-commerce security? E-commerce security is the set of guidelines that are designed to allow safe transactions on the web. These guidelines include steps and protocols that help protect the sale and purchase of goods and services online. Appropriate e-commerce security measures boost...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

worldpress/worldpress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution RCE. Lack of support for the update URI plugin header allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a supply-chain attack against the WordPress installations, when the slug satisfies the naming constraints of the WordPress.org plugin...

CVE-2021-44223

WordPress before 5.8 lacks support for the Update URI plugin header. This makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a supply-chain attack against WordPress installations that use any plugin for which the slug satisfies the naming constraints of the WordPress.org Plugin...

CVE-2021-44223

WordPress before 5.8 lacks support for the Update URI plugin header. This makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a supply-chain attack against WordPress installations that use any plugin for which the slug satisfies the naming constraints of the WordPress.org Plugin...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-44223

WordPress before 5.8 lacks support for the Update URI plugin header. This makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a supply-chain attack against WordPress installations that use any plugin for which the slug satisfies the naming constraints of the WordPress.org Plugin...

Directory traversal

WordPress before 5.8 lacks support for the Update URI plugin header. This makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a supply-chain attack against WordPress installations that use any plugin for which the slug satisfies the naming constraints of the WordPress.org Plugin...

CVE-2021-44223

WordPress before 5.8 lacks support for the Update URI plugin header. This makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a supply-chain attack against WordPress installations that use any plugin for which the slug satisfies the naming constraints of the WordPress.org Plugin...