What is a Botnet ❓ Definition, Types, Example Attack

Professionals, who make system security arrangements, are well-aware of the term ‘botnet’. Often used for the chain of hijacked computers/systems, the term ‘botnet’ should be well understood if a restorative and robust system is instructed as their wrong usage can lead to tremendous chaos. Botnet...

Apple macOS High Sierra Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

A security vulnerability exists in Apple macOS High Sierra, a specialized operating system developed by Apple for Mac computers. macOS High Sierra is caused by a faulty race condition. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause elevated privileges...

bangalorecomputers.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2305214

Following the 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. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

New PseudoManuscrypt Malware Infected Over 35,000 Computers in 2021

Industrial and government organizations, including enterprises in the military-industrial complex and research laboratories, are the targets of a new malware botnet dubbed PseudoManyscrypt that has infected roughly 35,000 Windows computers this year alone. The name comes from its similarities to...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in yetiforcecompany/yetiforcecrm

Description Cross-Site Scripting XSS attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a differen...

Distributed Data Systems WebHMI File Upload Vulnerability

Distributed Data Systems WebHmi is a Scada system with a built-in web server from Distributed Data Systems, Ukraine. It is used for monitoring and controlling any automation system on the local network as well as over the Internet from computers and mobile devices. A file upload vulnerability...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: Im speaking on "Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers" at @Hack on November 29, 2021. The list is maintained on this page...

DonPAPI - Dumping DPAPI Credz Remotely

Dumping revelant information on compromised targets without AV detection DPAPI dumping Lots of credentials are protected by DPAPI. We aim at locating those "secured" credentials, and retreive them using : User password Domaine DPAPI BackupKey Local machine DPAPI Key protecting TaskScheduled blob...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: mosquitto-2.0.12-1.fc35

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

Apple releases emergency update: Patch, but don’t panic

Spyware developed by the company NSO Group is back in the news today after Apple released an emergency fix for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. The update fixes a vulnerability silently exploited by software called Pegasus, which is often used in high-level surveillance campaigns by...

Threat landscape for industrial automation systems in H1 2021

The H1 2021 ICS threat report at a glance Percentage of ICS computers attacked 1. During the first half of 2021 H1 2021, the percentage of attacked ICS computers was 8%, which was 0.4 percentage points p.p. higher than that for H2 2020. Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were...

engineercms cross-site scripting vulnerability

engineercms is an open source engineer knowledge management system . Specifically for civil engineers to create a suitable web-based knowledge management system . It can be used to manage both individual project information , but also for managing project team information ; it can run on both...

Do cybercriminals play cyber games in quarantine? A look one year later

Last year, we decided to take a look at how the pandemic influenced the gaming industry and what new threats gamers could be facing. What we found was that, with the transition to remote work and remote learning, the number of blocked attempts to visit malicious game-related websites or follow...

Microsoft Windows 10 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2021-46822)

Microsoft Windows 10 is a set of operating systems for use on personal computers. Microsoft Windows 10 has a denial of service vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

SerenityOS stack buffer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2021-44281)

SerenityOS is a graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in test-crypto.cpp in SerenityOS, which can be exploited by an attacker to obtain sensitive information...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: mosquitto-1.6.15-1.fc33

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: mosquitto-2.0.11-1.fc34

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

Mysterious Custom Malware Collects Billions of Stolen Data Points

Researchers have uncovered a 1.2-terabyte database of stolen data, lifted from 3.2 million Windows-based computers over the course of two years by an unknown, custom malware. The heisted info includes 6.6 million files and 26 million credentials, and 2 billion web login cookies – with 400 million...

Exploit for Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control in Dell Dbutil

Description Script to patch your domain computers about the CV...

CVE-2021-31322

Telegram Android 7.1.0 2090, Telegram iOS 7.1, and Telegram macOS 7.1 are affected by a Heap Buffer Overflow in the LOTGradient::populate function of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to access heap memory out-of-bounds on a victim device via a malicious...