New Android Malware Targeting US, Canadian Users with COVID-19 Lures

An "insidious" new SMS smishing malware has been found targeting Android mobile users in the U.S. and Canada as part of an ongoing campaign that uses SMS text message lures related to COVID-19 regulations and vaccine information in an attempt to steal personal and financial data. Proofpoint's...

The vulnerability of the Simple Behance Portfolio WordPress plugin lies in its lack of protection for website structures, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts.

The vulnerability of the file /titan-framework/iframe-font-preview.php in the Simple Behance Portfolio WordPress plugin exists due to the lack of security measures for protecting the website structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to inject arbitrary web scripts through...

Freedom Hosting operator gets 27 years for hosting Dark Web child abuse sites

The wheels of justice have turned, if perhaps a bit slower than you may have expected. A Dublin resident, Eric Eoin Marques, has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. The reason is the frankly terrifying tally of child sexual abuse material CSAM he helped to distribute. Eoin helped to mak...

A week in security (Sept 13 – Sept 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Why backups aren’t a “silver bullet” against ransomware, with Matt Crape: Lock and Code S02E17 The many tentacles of Magecart Group 8 Apple releases emergency update: Patch, but don’t panic Update now! Google Chrome fixes two in-the-wild zero-days Parts of the Dark...

What is the Dark Web? The Dark Web explained

You may have seen the Dark Web referenced in popular TV shows and have gotten the wrong idea, or if you already knew about it, you may have snorted in derision. The Dark Web is also sometimes called the Deep Web, when in fact the Dark Web is only a part of the Deep Web. Terminology Surface Web is...

Airline Credential-Theft Takes Off in Widening Campaign

A two-year-old espionage campaign against the airline industry is ongoing, with AsyncRAT and other commodity remote-access trojans RATs helping those efforts take flight. The campaign can effectively be a bird strike to the business engine, so to speak, resulting in data theft, financial fraud or...

Security update for nextcloud (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for nextcloud Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1275-1 Rating: important References: 1190291 Cross-References: CVE-2021-32766 CVE-2021-32800 CVE-2021-32801 CVE-2021-32802 CVSS scores: CVE-2021-32800 NVD : 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N...

Parts of the Dark Web “awash” with school children’s personal data

NBC News has collected and analyzed a trove of childrens personal information it discovered on the Dark Web. Even though this information may not be as useful to cybercriminals as credit card details or login credentials, the information is still out there, where we don’t want it. So what is it,...

Security update for nextcloud (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for nextcloud Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1255-1 Rating: important References: 1190291 Cross-References: CVE-2021-32766 CVE-2021-32800 CVE-2021-32801 CVE-2021-32802 CVSS scores: CVE-2021-32800 NVD : 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N...

Russian Ransomware Group REvil Back Online After 2-Month Hiatus

The operators behind the REvil ransomware-as-a-service RaaS staged a surprise return after a two-month hiatus following the widely publicized attack on technology services provider Kaseya on July 4. Two of the dark web portals, including the gang's Happy Blog data leak site and its...

Tor vs VPN—What is the difference?

Our data is a precious commodity and there are plenty of people who would like to get their hands on it, from spouses and marketing teams to crooks and state-sponsored spies. Because of that, tools like Tor and Virtual Private Networks VPNs are growing in popularity. But while both tools can...

Explanation of the zero-day attack

What is a zero-day vulnerability? A zero-day weakness is an obscure security weakness or programming blemish that a danger entertainer can focus with noxious code. The expression “Zero-Day” is utilized in light of the fact that the product merchant was uninformed of their product weakness, and...

The Underground Economy: Recon, Weaponization & Delivery for Account Takeovers

This is Part I of a two-part blog series taking readers inside the criminal enterprise that is account-takeover fraud. For part II, please click here. With account takeover ATO attacks on the rise, stopping threat actors in the early phases of the kill chain will help today’s defenders gain an...

Cybercriminals Selling Access to Compromised Networks: 3 Surprising Research Findings

Cybercriminals are innovative, always finding ways to adapt to new circumstances and opportunities. The proof of this can be seen in the rise of a certain variety of activity on the dark web: the sale of access to compromised networks. This type of dark web activity has existed for decades, but i...

The T-Mobile Breach Is Much Worse Than It Had to Be

The vast majority of victims weren’t even T-Mobile customers. Now their information is for sale on the dark web...

HolesWarm Malware Exploits Unpatched Windows, Linux Servers

By leveraging more than 20 known vulnerabilities in Linux and Windows servers, the HolesWarm cryptominer malware has been able to break into more than 1,000 cloud hosts just since June. The basic cryptominer botnet has been so successful at juggling so many different known vulnerabilities between...

CVE-2021-34649

The Simple Behance Portfolio WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the dark parameter in the /titan-framework/iframe-font-preview.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 0.2...

WordPress 插件跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress is the Wordpress Foundation's set of blogging platform developed using the PHP language . The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress Plugin is an open source application plugin for WordPress. A security vulnerability in WordPress Simple...

Dark web AlphaBay marketplace resurface after four years

By Waqas AlphaBay marketplace was originally seized in 2017 but now someone claiming to be DeSnake, the original AlphaBay co-founder has announced bringing the marketplace back to business. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark web AlphaBay marketplace resurface after four...

New Anti Anti-Money Laundering Services for Crooks

A new dark web service is marketing to cybercriminals who are curious to see how their various cryptocurrency holdings and transactions may be linked to known criminal activity. Dubbed "Antinalysis," the service purports to offer a glimpse into how ones payment activity might be flagged by law...