FIN11 Hackers Spotted Using New Techniques In Ransomware Attacks

A financially-motivated threat actor known for its malware distribution campaigns has evolved its tactics to focus on ransomware and extortion. According to FireEye's Mandiant threat intelligence team, the collective — known as FIN11 — has engaged in a pattern of cybercrime campaigns at least sin...

FIN11: Widespread Email Campaigns as Precursor for Ransomware and Data Theft

Mandiant Threat Intelligence recently promoted a threat cluster to a named FIN or financially motivated threat group for the first time since 2017. We have detailed FIN11's various tactics, techniques and procedures in a report that is available now by signing up for Mandiant Advantage Free. In...

How to Be Resilient to Data Theft

Page Integrity Manager is now PCI compliant -- a strong starting point to harden your web applications. Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS is fundamental for any business that accepts payment cards or processes payment card data. Many financial services...

Authentication Bug Opens Android Smart-TV Box to Data Theft

A critical bug in the Hindotech HK1 TV Box would allow root-privilege escalation thanks to improper access control. A successful exploit would allow attackers to steal social-networking account tokens, Wi-Fi passwords, cookies, saved passwords, user-location data, message history, emails, contact...

How to Be Resilient to Data Theft

Page Integrity Manager is now PCI compliant -- a strong starting point to harden your web applications...

55 Apple vulnerabilities risked iCloud account takeover, data theft

By Sudais Asif These critical vulnerabilities were reported to Apple by a team of young cyber security researchers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 55 Apple vulnerabilities risked iCloud account takeover, data theft...

55 New Security Flaws Reported in Apple Software and Services

A team of five security researchers analyzed several Apple online services for three months and found as many as 55 vulnerabilities, 11 of which are critical in severity. The flaws — including 29 high severity, 13 medium severity, and 2 low severity vulnerabilities — could have allowed an attacke...

VideoBytes: Ransomware gets wasted!

Hello dear readers, and welcome to the latest edition of VideoBytes! On todays episode, were talking about how ransomware is on the rise again, focused on attacking corporations with malware that not only encrypts files, but also steals it. The tactics used to deploy these forms of ransomware hav...

Stripo Inc: Stored XSS at "Conditions " through "My Custom Rule" Field at [https://my.stripo.email/cabinet/#/template-editor/] in Template Editor.

Summary: Hi Team, There is "Stored XSS" in "Conditions" . When creating "My Custom Rule", you have to provide a name, whereas "My Custom Rule " field does not properly sanitize the input provided by the User leading to Stored XSS. Other fields are properly sanitizing the input. See the video Pock...

Russian Who Hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

A Russian hacker who was found guilty of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring over eight years ago has finally been sentenced to 88 months in United States prison, that's more than seven years by a federal court in San Francisco this week. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin , 32, of Moscow hack...

OAuth Consent Phishing Ramps Up with Microsoft Office 365 Attacks

An APT known as TA2552 has been spotted using OAuth2 or other token-based authorization methods to access Office 365 accounts, in order to steal users’ contacts and mail. OAuth is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for people to sign into services without entering a...

CVE-2020-15849

Re:Desk 2.3 has a blind authenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the SettingsController class, in the actionEmailTemplates method. A malicious actor with access to an administrative account could abuse this vulnerability to recover sensitive data from the application's database, allowing for...

Caught in the payment fraud net: when, not if?

Sometimes, I think there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and some form of payment fraud. Security reporter Danny Palmer experienced this a little while ago, and has spent a significant amount of time tracking the journey of his card details from the UK to Suriname. His deep-dive...

Brave Software: HTML injection in title of reader view

HTML injection was possible in the title of the reader view in Brave iOS version 1.20 and current Nightly. This allowed any page to inject malicious HTML code in the reader-mode page through html code you want to inject. This vulnerability could be exploited to steal user's sensitive information...

Feds Hit with Successful Cyberattack, Data Stolen

A federal agency has suffered a successful espionage-related cyberattack that led to a backdoor and multistage malware being dropped on its network. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued an alert on Thursday, not naming the agency but providing technical details of...

Gamer Credentials Now a Booming, Juicy Target for Hackers

Credential theft targeting hardcore gamers has hit an all-time high as scams, illicit markets and account takeovers have become a booming business. The driving force behind the uptick in gaming-related crime is a sudden spike in usage of online games, spurred by the coronavirus pandemic and...

The Dark Overlord Member Receives 5 Years Prison Term in the U.S.

By Waqas The Dark Overlord member is a U.K. national who pleaded guilty for stealing data and blackmailing victims. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Dark Overlord Member Receives 5 Years Prison Term in the U.S...

Google Chrome Bugs Open Browsers to Attack

Google has stomped out several serious code-execution flaws in its Chrome browser. To exploit the flaw, an attacker would merely need to convince a target to visit a specially crafted webpage via phishing or other social-engineering lures. Overall, Google’s release of Chrome 85.0.4183.121 for...

Basecamp: stored XSS in hey.com message content

Hi I found a stored xss using messagecontent parameter when forwarding an email or saving it as draft , and when the victim click on the email to view it, it gets executed . I used this payload as the message content : From: "f" To: [email protected] Message-ID: Subject:...

Google Chrome Extension Policy Enforcement Deficiency Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-53302)

Chrome is a simple and efficiently designed web browsing tool developed by Google that is characterized by its simplicity and speed. An extension policy enforcement deficiency vulnerability exists in versions of Google Chrome prior to 85.0.4183.121. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to...