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On the Insecurity of ES&S Voting Machines’ Hash Code
Andrew Appel and Susan Greenhalgh have a blog post on the insecurity of ES&Ss software authentication system: It turns out that ES&S has bugs in their hash-code checker: if the "reference hashcode" is completely missing, then itll say "yes, boss, everything is fine" instead of reporting an error...
Military, Nuclear Entities Under Target By Novel Android Malware
Researchers have uncovered two novel Android surveillanceware families being used by an advanced persistent threat APT group to target military, nuclear and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir. The two malware families, which researchers call “Hornbill” and “SunBird,” have sophisticated...
Verify Your Valentine
This Valentine’s Day, before you go looking for love in all the wrong chat rooms, CISA reminds users to be wary of internet romance scams. At first, cyber criminals promise the reward of romance after adopting an alias to appear as a potential partner. Once your heart is hooked on hope, they turn...
How NOT to fail at PDF redaction
The heated spat between Europe and AstraZeneca over a contract has segued into an unexpected blunder that left many of us chuckling and surprised at the same time. Perhaps even feeling a bit awkward. Recently, the European Commission published a PDF version of the contract it had with AstraZeneca...
Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State
The Office of the Washington State Auditor SAO on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerabilit...
Data Privacy – Now’s the Time for the US to Catch Up
The recent Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, may have highlighted to many Americans just what happens to the wealth of personal information they regularly - and willingly - share online. It may be especially concerning, then, to know that companies in the United States aren’t required by...
Likely lead generation scam targets potential Malwarebytes MSP partners
Recently, Malwarebytes discovered a potential lead generation scam targeting companies that are interested in our Malwarebtyes Managed Service Provider MSP Program. In the scam, an individual who used the name “Jenny” aggressively contacted potential MSP partners claiming to represent Malwarebyte...
48 U.S. States and FTC are suing Facebook for illegal monopolization
The US Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 48 state attorneys general on Wednesday filed a pair of sweeping antitrust suits against Facebook, alleging that the company abused its power in the marketplace to neutralize competitors through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp and...
register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1479308
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
Shanghai ShangPai Network Technology Co., Ltd. Ecshop Has Logic Flaw Vulnerability
Commercial ECShop - new retail open source mall system, commercial B2C open source mall system, support for PC + H5 + APP + small program mall, source code free download, suitable for enterprises to quickly build a mall website, support for two open customization. And ECShop new upgrade ECShopX,...
Malicious Package
Overview commission-junctionstats is a malicious package. Affected versions of this package were found to be a Malicious Package, as it utilised typosquatting to run Malicious 3rd party scripts. It replaced genuine packages using an and replaced it with - and vice versa Remediation Avoid using...
Child identity theft, part 1: On familiar fraud
In 2013, 30-year-old Axton Betz-Hamilton received an angry phone call from her father two weeks after her mother, Pam, died. "What the hell were you thinking?" he screamed. He had just unearthed a credit card statement in her name that had run over its limit from a box of her mother’s paperwork...
HackerOne: Rounding errors on rewarding a bounty leads to bypassing the 20% H1 commission fee
Summary: The team discovered a rounding error issue when rewarding hackers with a bounty. Through a series of micro-payments, a malicious program manager is able to pay a full amount to the hacker while evading the 20% H1 commission fee. Description: H1 has a system for awarding and paying hacker...
Stalkerware Attacks Increased 50 Percent Last Year, Report
The number of stalkerware attacks on mobile devices increased 50 percent over the last year, showing an upward and continued trend in the emerging threat, researchers said. Over the past year, the instances of stalkerware—which tracks users without their knowledge and can result in harassment,...
Be Cautious of Romance Scams
This Valentine’s Day, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA reminds users to be wary of internet romance scams. Cyber criminals partaking in this type of fraud target victims, gain their confidence, and convince them to transfer funds. When online dating, use caution and never...
A week in security (February 3 – 9)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at Washington state’s latest efforts in providing better data privacy rights for their residents, and we dove into some of the many questions regarding fintech: What is it? How secure is it? And what are some of the problems in the space? We also detailed...
Company Detected Years-Long Breach Only After Hacker Maxed Out Servers' Storage
What could be even worse than getting hacked? It's the "failure to detect intrusions" that always results in huge losses to the organizations. Utah-based technology companyInfoTrax Systems is the latest example of such a security blunder, as the company was breached more than 20 times from May 20...
CVE-2019-18632
European Commission eIDAS-Node Integration Package before 2.3.1 allows Certificate Faking because an attacker can sign a manipulated SAML response with a forged certificate...
CVE-2019-18633
European Commission eIDAS-Node Integration Package before 2.3.1 has Missing Certificate Validation because a certain ExplicitKeyTrustEvaluator return value is not checked. NOTE: only 2.1 is confirmed to be affected...