EternalPetya and the lost Salsa20 key

We have recently been facing a huge outbreak of a new Petya-like malware armed with an infector similar to WannaCry. The research is still in progress, and the full report will be published soon. In this post, we will focus on some new important aspects of the current malware. The low-level attac...

Gratipay: Possible User Session Hijack using Invalid HTTPS certificate on inside.gratipay.com domain

Good evening team! This is a theoretical risk but I thought it was still worth reporting since every endpoint and any data flowing through inside.gratipay.com is unencrypted. POC https://inside.gratipay.com And every sub directory under inside.gratipay.com. Description Since the certificate is on...

Wannacry depth of analysis: the first stage tasksche-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

WannaCry ransomware is a 2017 of the most popular ransomware, which uses a Microsoft vulnerability in the global range attacks make the world more than 100 countries, hundreds of thousands of users by the impact. Has a global range of network security education for all. As a security industry...

Passwords at the Border

The password-manager 1Password has just implemented a travel mode that tries to protect users while crossing borders. It doesn't make much sense. To enable it, you have to create a list of passwords you feel safe traveling with, and then you can turn on the mode that only gives you access to thos...

Insecure Encryption

aescrypt uses a vulnerable encryption method. The method is vulnerable because it does not randomize the CBC IV when encrypting and decrypting data. This allows attackers to easily defeat the cryptographic mechanism by guessing the CBC IV...

CVE-2016-9346

An issue was discovered in Moxa MiiNePort E1 versions prior to 1.8, E2 versions prior to 1.4, and E3 versions prior to 1.1. Configuration data are stored in a file that is not encrypted...

Los Angeles College Pays Hackers $28,000 Ransom To Get Its Files Back

Ransomware has turned on to a noxious game of Hackers to get paid effortlessly. Once again the heat was felt by the Los Angeles Valley College LAVC when hackers managed to infect its computer network with ransomware and demanded US$28,000 payment in Bitcoins to get back online. The cyber-attack...

CVE-2015-4961

IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience 8.x before 8.7.1.8847 FP10, 8.8.x before 8.8.0.9049 FP9, 9.0.0 and 9.0.1 before 9.0.1.1117 FP5, 9.0.1A before 9.0.1.5108 FP5, 9.0.2 before 9.0.2.1223 FP3, and 9.0.2A before 9.0.2.5224 FP3 does not encrypt connections between internal servers, which allows remote...

Adult FriendFinder Vulnerability Leaves 400 Million Exposed

Account data for more than 400 million users of adult-themed FriendFinder Network has been exposed. The breach includes personal account data from five sites including Adult FriendFinder, Penthouse.com and Stripshow.com. FriendFinder Network did not confirm the breach and is investigating reports...

Half of Chrome Pageloads are HTTPS

First it was Mozilla, and now Google is the latest to confirm that encryption is inching closer toward becoming a standard building block for websites and web applications. Google reported yesterday that more than half of pages loaded on desktop versions of the Chrome browser are being done so ov...

Hundreds Of Operations Canceled After Malware Hacks Hospitals Systems

Computer viruses do not discriminate. They are not just hacking your email and online banking accounts anymore. Computer viruses do not distinguish between a personal computer or a hospital machine delivering therapy to patients — and the results could prove deadly. Cyber attacks on hospitals hav...

This Code Injection Technique can Potentially Attack All Versions of Windows

Guess what? If you own a Windows PC, which is fully-patched, attackers can still hack your computer. Isn't that scary? Well, definitely for most of you. Security researchers have discovered a new technique that could allow attackers to inject malicious code on every version of Microsoft's Windows...

IoT Insecurity: Top Connected Device Security Concerns

It’s a coin toss whether or not that Internet of Things device you depend on is secure. Those unacceptable 50/50 odds come from a survey by IOActive where technology professionals were asked about the security of connected devices from thermostats, security cameras to alarm systems. Those numbers...

Python Steganography Tool: Matroschka

Python Steganography Tool Матрёшка mɐˈtrʲɵʂkə is a command-line steganography tool written in pure Python. You can use it to hide and encrypt images or text in the least significant bits of pixels in an image. Encryption The encryption uses HMAC-SHA256 to authenticate the hidden data. Therefore t...

CVE-2016-2861

IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale 7.1.0 before 7.1.0.3, 7.1.1 before 7.1.1.1, 8.5 before 8.5.0.3, and 8.6 before 8.6.0.8 does not properly encrypt data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network...

Information disclosure

IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale 7.1.0 before 7.1.0.3, 7.1.1 before 7.1.1.1, 8.5 before 8.5.0.3, and 8.6 before 8.6.0.8 does not properly encrypt data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network...

CVE-2016-2861

Summary (CVE-2016-2861) : IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client components (WebSphere eXtreme Scale 7.1.0 before 7.1.0.3, 7.1.1 before 7.1.1.1, 8.5 before 8.5.0.3, 8.6 before 8.6.0.8)** expose sensitive information due to weaker-than-expected encryption, enabling a remote attacker to decrypt network...

CVE-2016-5109 - Authentication bypass vulnerability in Citrix Worx Home for iOS and Citrix MDX Toolkit for iOS

Description of Problem A vulnerability has been identified that affects iOS applications using the XenMobile MDX Toolkit. An attacker with physical access to the device could bypass in-application Apple Touch ID authentication in some cases where re-authentication is required. This vulnerability...

Ransomware Victims Lessons Learned

For online casinos, business begins to peak as gamblers punch out of work and belly-up to virtual blackjack tables. But on this Tuesday in February at 5p.m., the odds were not in the house’s favor. That’s when this virtual casino—with tens of millions of dollars in virtual transaction data,...

CVE-2015-1776

Apache Hadoop 2.6.x encrypts intermediate data generated by a MapReduce job and stores it along with the encryption key in a credentials file on disk when the Intermediate data encryption feature is enabled, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file...