Cyberespionage Group Steps Up Campaigns Against Japanese Firms

Researchers are learning more about the cyberespionage group Bronze Butler. While the gang has been targeting Japanese heavy industry since 2012, not much is known about the group’s current modus operandi. In a report released Thursday by the Counter Threat Unit at SecureWorks, a subsidiary of De...

Business Email Compromise Losses Up 2,370 Percent Since 2015

Business Email Compromise BEC schemes, where executives are scammed via social engineering and phishing compromises that ultimately lead to fraudulent wire transfers, grew at a jaw-dropping rate of 2,370 percent in the last two years. The FBI yesterday published its latest statistics on these...

SAP Patches Critical HANA Vulnerability That Allowed Full Access

SAP patched a series of critical vulnerabilities in its cloud-based business platform HANA today that if exploited, could allow for a full system compromise without authentication. When chained together the flaws could lead to the theft of confidential information, financial fraud, and the...

Researchers Uncover New Leads Behind Shamoon2

In a fresh analysis of the Shamoon2 malware, researchers from Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering and Response Team ASERT say they have unearthed new leads on the tools and techniques used in the most recent wave of attacks. Shamoon2 surfaced in November, approximately four years after the...

Automattic: Broken Authentication - Security token gets captured via man in the middle attack

Product / URL http://en.instagram-brand.com/register/reset/?email= Description and Impact The password reset links issues by Instagram Brand gets delivered to users inbox with a http scheme and NOT https scheme. This causes an attacker stealing those links and performing mass account takeovers an...

LLMNR, NBT-NS and MDNS Responder for Windows

LLMNR, NBT-NS and MDNS Responder for Windows This tool is first an LLMNR, NBT-NS and MDNS responder, it will answer to specific NBT-NS NetBIOS Name Service queries based on their name suffix see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163409 . By default, the tool will only answers to File Server Servic...

Web Spidering Framework: Malspider

Web Spidering Framework That Detects Characteristics of Web Compromises Malspider is a web spidering framework that inspects websites for characteristics of compromise. Malspider has three purposes: Website Integrity Monitoring : monitor your organization’s website or your personal website for...

WordPress Compromises Lead to Teslacrypt Ransoware

Website operators running sites on the WordPress platform need to be aware of a massive string of infections that as of Thursday were poorly detected by security products. Researchers at Heimdal Security said the compromised sites redirect victims to other domains hosting the Nuclear Exploit Kit,...

FBI Warns Businesses of Email Scams, Wire Fraud

U.S. businesses are losing millions in fraudulent wire transfers that have their root in email compromises of accounts belonging to top executives. An FBI advisory issued Thursday warns businesses that regularly conduct wire transfer payments to be vigilant about potential email account...

DEF CON SOHOpelessly Broken Router Hacking Contest

It’s becoming cliché to say it’s trivial to pop a small office or home router. Vendors are making it easy, since most are interested in cramming features such as print, file and media servers into these boxes and less so on basic security measures. Therefore, it sometimes helps to illustrate the...

SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3.0,SGI IRIX <= 6.5.4,SGI UNICOS <= 10.0 6 arrayd.auth Default Configuration Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/530/exploit The SGI Array Services provide a mechanism to simplify administering and managing an array of clustered systems. The arrayd1m program is part of the arrayservices5 and is known as the array services daemon. Th...

ProFTPD 1.3.3c - Compromised Source Remote Root Trojan

No description provided by source. == ProFTPD Compromise Report == On Sunday, the 28th of November 2010 around 20:00 UTC the main distribution server of the ProFTPD project was compromised. The attackers most likely used an unpatched security issue in the FTP daemon to gain access to the server a...

Drummond Miles A1Stats 1.0 a1disp3.cgi Traversal Arbitrary File Read

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2705/info A1Stats is a CGI product by Drummon Miles used to report on a website's visitor traffic. Versions of this product fail to properly validate user-supplied input submitted as querystrings to the A1Stats script. An...

Drummond Miles A1Stats 1.0 a1disp2.cgi Traversal Arbitrary File Read

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2705/info A1Stats is a CGI product by Drummon Miles used to report on a website's visitor traffic. Versions of this product fail to properly validate user-supplied input submitted as querystrings to the A1Stats script. An...

Cartweaver 2.16.11 Details.cfm ProdID Parameter SQL Injection

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17941/info Cartweaver ColdFusion is prone to SQL-injection vulnerabilities. These issues are due to the application's failure to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in SQL queries. Successful exploits...

IBM Net.Commerce 3.1/3.2 WebSphere Weak Password Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2482/info Versions of IBM NetCommerce and WebSphere Commerce Suite ecommerce packages employ weak password encryption for their users' and administrators' passwords. This encryption is defeatable using a widely-published...

PHPPrintAnalyzer 1.1 Index.php Remote File Include Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19397/info phpPrintAnalyzer is prone to a remote file-include vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this issue to include arbitrary remote files containing...

FreeBSD <= 3.1,Solaris <= 2.6 Domain Socket Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/456/info Solaris 2.6 and many other unices/clones have a serious problem with their unix domain socket implementation that has it's origins in old BSD code. Any unix socket created by any application is set mode 4777. In...

U.S. Oil, Gas Targeted by Espionage Malware Campaign

American gas and oil companies have been targeted by a hacking group with ties to the Russian Federation for close to 18 months, a new research report indicates. The attackers have leveraged watering hole attacks to infect users inside the critical infrastructure organizations to spread a remote...

Pinterest Closes Hole That Allowed Anyone to View User's Email Address

A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in Pinterest, the rapidly growing social network, that enables an attacker who knows a target’s username or user ID to discover that user’s email address. The bug is quite simple to exploit and could give an ambitious attacker a huge target lis...