MyEasyDocs Exposed 30GB of Israeli and Indian Students PII Data

By Waqas MyEasyDocs is a Chennai, India based online documents verification platform whose Microsoft Azure server exposed data of over… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MyEasyDocs Exposed 30GB of Israeli and Indian Students PII Data...

Apple’s passkeys attempt to solve the password problem

The recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC revealed another teasing of what has been referred to as "the end of passwords forever". Passkeys are a "new biometric sign-in standard". Biometrics in security circles are used for things like identity cards, building access, and so on. This...

Privilege escalation

Improper privilege management vulnerability in Samsung Account prior to 13.2.00.6 allows attackers to get the data of contact and gallery without permission...

Hacking Scenarios: How Hackers Choose Their Victims

Enforcing the "double-extortion" technique aka pay-now-or-get-breached emerged as a head-turner last year. May 6th, 2022 is a recent example. The State Department said the Conti strain of ransomware was the most costly in terms of payments made by victims as of January. Conti, a...

CVE-2022-30190 (Follina) vulnerability in MSDT: description and counteraction

At the end of May, researchers from the naosec team reported a new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT that can be exploited using Microsoft Office documents. It allowed attackers to remotely execute code on Windows systems, while the victim could not even open the...

Old Hacks Die Hard: Ransomware, Social Engineering Top Verizon DBIR Threats – Again

Ransomware and social engineering continue to dominate challenges facing cybersecurity professionals, according to Verizon’s 15th annual Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. In general, the results of DBIR merely confirm well-established trends, such as the growing threats of ransomware – up 1...

Cybercriminals Expand Attack Radius and Ransomware Pain Points

AUTHOR: Melissa Bischoping is director, endpoint security research specialist at Tanium When ransomware strikes, security teams and business leaders are immediately faced with a flurry of questions, including: “Is the vulnerability patched?” “Does my vendor/supplier/customer’s compromise affect m...

Twitter Fined $150 Million for Misusing Users' Data for Advertising Without Consent

Twitter, which is in the process of being acquired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has agreed to pay $150 million to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC to settle allegations that it abused non-public information collected for security purposes to serve targeted ads. In addition to the monetary penalty...

GHSA-4G82-3JCR-Q52W Malware in ctx

The ctx hosted project on PyPI was taken over via user account compromise and replaced with a malicious project which contained runtime code that collected the content of os.environ.items when instantiating Ctx objects. The captured environment variables were sent as a base64 encoded query...

Personal Data of Tens of Millions of Russians and Ukrainians Exposed Online

By Waqas The trove of data was leaked due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch server and in total it stored 870… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Personal Data of Tens of Millions of Russians and Ukrainians Exposed Online...

General Motors suffers credential stuffing attack

American car manufacturer General Motors GM says it experienced a credential stuffing attack last month. During the attack customer information and reward points were stolen. The subject of the attack was an online platform, run by GM, to help owners of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac vehicle...

Chicago students lose data to ransomware attackers

Chicago Public Schools CPS disclosed on Friday that students may have had their data taken in a ransomware incident involving one of its vendors. The ransomware attack happened last December at Battelle for Kids BfK, based in Columbus Ohio, which develops services to provide innovation in schools...

CVE-2022-30618

An authenticated user with access to the Strapi admin panel can view private and sensitive data, such as email and password reset tokens, for API users if content types accessible to the authenticated user contain relationships to API users from:users-permissions. There are many scenarios in whic...

OpenStack Nova host data leak to vm instance in rescue mode

The instance rescue mode in OpenStack Compute Nova 2013.2 before 2013.2.3 and Icehouse before 2014.1, when using libvirt to spawn images and usecowimages is set to false, allows remote authenticated users to read certain compute host files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image...

CVE-2022-27247

onlinetolls in cdSoft Onlinetools-Smart Winhotel.MX 2021 allows an attacker to download sensitive information about any customer e.g., data of birth, full address, mail information, and phone number via GastKont Insecure Direct Object Reference...

CVE-2022-27247

onlinetolls in cdSoft Onlinetools-Smart Winhotel.MX 2021 allows an attacker to download sensitive information about any customer e.g., data of birth, full address, mail information, and phone number via GastKont Insecure Direct Object Reference...

Keycloak Authentication Error

It was found that SAML authentication in Keycloak 3.4.3.Final incorrectly authenticated expired certificates. A malicious user could use this to access unauthorized data or possibly conduct further attacks...

Improper access control

Sysaid – Pro Plus Edition, SysAid Help Desk Broken Access Control v20.4.74 b10, v22.1.20 b62, v22.1.30 b49 - An attacker needs to log in as a guest after that the system redirects him to the service portal or EndUserPortal.JSP, then he needs to change the path in the URL to /ConcurrentLogin%2ejsp...

CVE-2021-26366

An attacker, who gained elevated privileges via some other vulnerability, may be able to read data from Boot ROM resulting in a loss of system integrity...

CVE-2021-26366

CVE-2021-26366 is documented by AMD in AMD-SB-1027 as a vulnerability where an attacker with elevated privileges could read data from Boot ROM, compromising system integrity. The AMD bulletin lists CVE-2021-26366 under desktop/mobile/server SKUs and ties it to AGESA PI firmware fixes. Mitigation:...