Crypto Mining Service Coinhive to Call it Quits

Roughly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity published a lengthy investigation into the individuals behind Coinhive.com, a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. On Tuesday, Coinhive announced plans to pull the plug on the project...

Hackers Actively Exploiting Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Published Last Week

Cybercriminals have actively started exploiting an already patched security vulnerability in the wild to install cryptocurrency miners on vulnerable Drupal websites that have not yet applied patches and are still vulnerable. Last week, developers of the popular open-source content management syst...

Hackers Actively Exploiting Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Published Last Week

Cybercriminals have actively started exploiting an already patched security vulnerability in the wild to install cryptocurrency miners on vulnerable Drupal websites that have not yet applied patches and are still vulnerable. Last week, developers of the popular open-source content management syst...

Cisco Talos Honeypot Analysis Reveals Rise in Attacks on Elasticsearch Clusters

Christopher Evans of Cisco Talos conducted the research for this post. Executive Summary Cisco Talos warns users that they need to keep a close eye on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters. We have recently observed a spike in attacks from multiple threat actors targeting these clusters. These attacke...

Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Used by Cryptocurrency Miners and Other Attackers

Another remote code execution vulnerability has been revealed in Drupal, the popular open-source Web content management system. One exploit — still working at time of this writing — has been used in dozens of unsuccessful attacks against our customers, with an unknown number of attacks, some like...

WordPress WooCommerce GloBee Payment Gateway 1.1.1 Bypass / Spoofing

?php Exploit Title: WordPress WooCommerce - GloBee cryptocurrency Payment Gateway Plugin Payment Bypass / Unauthorized Order Status Spoofing Discovery Date: 14.12.2018 Public Disclosure Date: 14.02.2019 Exploit Author: GeekHack Contact: https://t.me/GeekHack Vendor Homepage: https://globee.com/...

WordPress Plugin WooCommerce - GloBee (cryptocurrency) Payment Gateway 1.1.1 - Payment Bypass Unauthorized Order Status Spoofing

WordPress Plugin WooCommerce - GloBee cryptocurrency Payment Gateway 1.1.1 - Payment Bypass Unauthorized Order Status Spoofing ?php Exploit Title: WordPress WooCommerce - GloBee cryptocurrency Payment Gateway Plugin Payment Bypass / Unauthorized Order Status Spoofing Discovery Date: 14.12.2018...

WordPress WooCommerce Plugin - Payment Bypass / Unauthorized Order Status Spoofing

Exploit for php platform in category web applications WordPress Plugin WooCommerce - GloBee cryptocurrency Payment Gateway 1.1.1 - Payment Bypass / Unauthorized Order Status Spoofing -------------------------------------------------------------- ?php Exploit Title: WordPress WooCommerce - GloBee...

First 'Clipper' Malware Discovered on Google Play

A malicious app designed to steal cryptocurrency from victims by replacing a wallet address in the phone’s clipboard has been discovered harboring the first “clipper” malware discovered on Google Play, the official Android app store. Usually cryptocurrency-stealers are found on unsanctioned Andro...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification – Fake Movie File Attack Targeting Cryptocurrency

A malicious Windows shortcut file is posing as a movie available on a torrent site - its payload is used to conduct web-injection, ultimately targeting victim’s web searches in browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. The payload has the ability to search for and steal cryptocurrency...

First Android Clipboard Hijacking Crypto Malware Found On Google Play Store

A security researcher has discovered yet another cryptocurrency-stealing malware on the official Google Play Store that was designed to secretly steal bitcoin and cryptocurrency from unwitting users. The malware, described as a "Clipper ," masqueraded as a legitimate cryptocurrency app and worked...

First Android Clipboard Hijacking Crypto Malware Found On Google Play Store

A security researcher has discovered yet another cryptocurrency-stealing malware on the official Google Play Store that was designed to secretly steal bitcoin and cryptocurrency from unwitting users. The malware, described as a "Clipper," masqueraded as a legitimate cryptocurrency app and worked ...

This Week in Security News: Consumer Data and Malware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn what security issues and critical threats will impact consumer data this year. Also, learn about a malicious Adobe app targeting macOS...

Cyber Security Week in Review (Feb. 8)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week Attackers continue to utilize...

Critical Zcash Bug Could Have Allowed 'Infinite Counterfeit' Cryptocurrency

The developers behind the privacy-minded Zcash cryptocurrency have recently discovered and patched a highly dangerous vulnerability in the most secretive way that could have allowed an attacker to coin an infinite number of Zcash ZEC. Yes, infinite… like a never-ending source of money. Launched i...

2018 in Snort Rules

This blog post was authored by Benny Ketelslegers of Cisco Talos The cybersecurity field shifted quite a bit in 2018. With the boom of cryptocurrency, we saw a transition from ransomware to cryptocurrency miners. Talos researchers identified APT campaigns including VPNFilter, predominantly...

More Alleged SIM Swappers Face Justice

Prosecutors in Northern California have charged two men with using unauthorized SIM swaps to steal and extort money from victims. One of the individuals charged allegedly used a hacker nickname belonging to a key figure in the underground who's built a solid reputation hijacking mobile phone...

Major Zcash Vulnerability Fixed

Zcash just fixed a vulnerability that would have allowed "infinite counterfeit" Zcash. Like all the other blockchain vulnerabilities and updates, this demonstrates the ridiculousness of the notion that code can replace people, that trust can be encompassed in the protocols, or that human governan...

New cryptocurrency malware SpeakUp hits Linux & Mac devices

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Check Point have identified a new malware called SpeakUp targeting Linux and macOS - The new findings prove that there has been a surge in malware attacks against Linux and Apple devices. SpeakUp is a new backdoor Trojan that is being distributed by...

Crypto exchange loses access to $145M after CEO dies without giving password

By Waqas The Canada-based cryptocurrency exchange QuardigaCX has suffered a major setback after the untimely death of its founder and CEO Gerald Cotten. Apparently, Cotten had exclusive and crucial information about the exchange’s password. Now that the CEO is no more, the exchange claims to have...