macOS Malware Creator Charged With Spying on Thousands of PCs Over 13 Years

The U.S. Justice Department unsealed 16-count indictment charges on Wednesday against a computer programmer from Ohio who is accused of creating and installing spyware on thousands of computers for more than 13 years. According to the indictment, 28-year-old Phillip R. Durachinsky is the alleged...

Cross site scripting

A reflected cross site scripting XSS vulnerability in Junos Space may potentially allow a remote authenticated user to inject web script or HTML and steal sensitive data and credentials from a session, and to perform administrative actions on the Junos Space network management device...

Spectre and Meltdown Attacks Against Microprocessors

The security of pretty much every computer on the planet has just gotten a lot worse, and the only real solution -- which of course is not a solution -- is to throw them all away and buy new ones. On Wednesday, researchers just announced a series of major security vulnerabilities in the...

Three Reasons Why GDPR Encourages Pseudonymization

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is the European Union’s new data regulation designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data that is collected or created by businesses or government entities. It unifies data protection regulation across all member...

Huge Flaws Affect Nearly Every Modern Device; Patch Could Hit CPU Performance

UPDATE: Researchers have finally disclosed complete technical details of two kernel side-channel attacks, Meltdown and Spectre—which affect not only Intel but also systems and devices running AMD, ARM processors—allowing attackers to steal sensitive data from the system memory. The first week of...

marked data: URI parser cross-site scripting vulnerability

marked is an American software developer Christopher Jeffrey developed a Markdown parser and compiler written in JavaScript. data:URI parser is one of the URI Uniform Resource Identifier parser. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the data: URI parser in marked 0.3.6 and earlier. A...

Critical "Same Origin Policy" Bypass Flaw Found in Samsung Android Browser

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the browser app comes pre-installed on hundreds of millions of Samsung Android devices that could allow an attacker to steal data from browser tabs if the user visits an attacker-controlled site. Identified as CVE-2017-17692, the vulnerability is Sa...

ServersCheck Monitoring Software Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

ServersCheck Monitoring Software versions prior to 14.2.3 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. Exploit Title: ServersCheck Monitoring Software before 14.2.3 Cross-site scripting vulnerability CVE: CVE-2017-17832 Date: 21-12-2017 Exploit Author: Aloyce J. Makalanga Contact:...

Ability Mail Server 3.3.2 - Cross-Site Scripting Exploit

Exploit for multiple platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Ability Mail Server 3.3.2 Persistent Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE: CVE-2017-17752 Date: 19-12-2017 Software Link: http://download.codecrafters.com/ams3.exe Exploit Author: Aloyce J. Makalanga Contact:...

Ability Mail Server 3.3.2 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Ability Mail Server 3.3.2 Persistent Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE: CVE-2017-17752 Date: 19-12-2017 Software Link: http://download.codecrafters.com/ams3.exe Exploit Author: Aloyce J. Makalanga Contact: https://twitter.com/aloycemjr Vendor Homepage: http://www.codecrafters.com...

Ability Mail Server 3.3.2 - Cross-Site Scripting

Ability Mail Server 3.3.2 - Cross-Site Scripting Exploit Title: Ability Mail Server 3.3.2 Persistent Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE: CVE-2017-17752 Date: 19-12-2017 Software Link: http://download.codecrafters.com/ams3.exe Exploit Author: Aloyce J. Makalanga Contact: https://twitter.com/aloycemjr...

Multiple vulnerabilities in UKcms

UKcms is a web content management system based on PHP7 and mysql technology. UKcms has file inclusion, host header manipulation, reflective cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities. Allow attackers to exploit the vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information;...

VK.com: clickjacking в /lead_forms_app.php

Кликджекинг в «Форме сбора заявок». Можно было угнать номер и почту любого человека который нажмет на кнопкуbuton на нашем сайте, я считаю это довольно серьезно, ибо нажать кнопку можно было под любым предлогом, к примеру создав фейковый опрос на нашем сайте, а подтверждением голосования добавить...

HIDDEN COBRA Trojan 'Volgmer' Detection

This script tries to detect indicators in the Windows registry for malicious tools used by North Korean APT group SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Google Detects and Boots Tizi Spyware Off Google Play

The Google Play Protect team said it identified a new strain of Android spyware called Tizi found inside several apps previously available via the Google Play marketplace. The recent discovery triggered a wider investigation by Google who said apps infected by the Tizi malware date back to 2015...

Google Detects Android Spyware That Spies On WhatsApp, Skype Calls

In an attempt to protect Android users from malware and shady apps, Google has been continuously working to detect and remove malicious apps from your devices using its newly launched Google Play Protect service. Google Play Protect—a security feature that uses machine learning and app usage...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM WebSphere Commerce Enterprise, Professional, Express, and Developer 7.0 and 8.0 could allow an authenticated attacker to obtain information such as user personal data. IBM X-Force ID: 128622...

U.S. Charges Three Chinese Hackers for Hacking Siemens, Trimble & Moody

The United States Justice Department has charged three Chinese nationals for allegedly hacking Moody's Analytics economist, German electronics manufacturer Siemens, and GPS maker Trimble, and stealing gigabytes of sensitive data and trade secrets. According to an indictment unsealed Monday in...

Android commercial spyware

There's certainly no shortage of commercial spying apps for Android, with most positioned as parental control tools. In reality, however, these apps barely differ from spyware, with the exception perhaps of the installation method. There's no need to even resort to Tor Browser or other darknet...

This Week in Security News

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. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...