Loda RAT Grows Up

By Chris Neal. Over the past several months, Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes websites hosting a new version of Loda, a remote access trojan RAT written in AutoIT. These websites also host malicious documents that begin a multi-stage infection chain which ultimately serve...

U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People's Liberation Army PLA accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. DOJ officials said the four...

Active PayPal Phishing Scam Targets SSNs, Passport Photos

A recently uncovered phishing campaign, targeting PayPal users, pulls out all the stops and asks victims for the complete spectrum of personal data – even going so far as to ask for social security numbers and uploaded photos of their passports. The campaign starts with a fairly run-of-the-mill...

Critical Android Bluetooth Bug Enables RCE, No User Interaction Needed

A critical vulnerability in the Bluetooth implementation on Android devices could allow attackers to launch remote code execution RCE attacks – without any user interaction. Researchers on Thursday revealed further details behind the critical Android flaw CVE-2020-0022, which was patched earlier...

Facebook's Bug Bounty Caught a Data-Stealing Spree

A few months ago, the company disclosed that apps were siphoning data from up to 9.5 million of its users. It only found out thanks to a bug bounty submission...

Critical Citrix RCE Flaw Still Threatens 1,000s of Corporate LANs

About one in five of the 80,000 companies affected by a critical bug in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Citrix Gateway are still at risk from a trivial attack on their internal operations. If exploited, the flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to gain remote access to a...

Hackers can steal data from air-gapped PC using screen brightness

By Sudais Asif Air-gapped computers represent one of the highest security measures one can take to secure a particular system but... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers can steal data from air-gapped PC using screen brightness...

CVE-2019-4616

IBM Cloud Automation Manager 3.2.1.0 does not set the secure attribute on authorization tokens or session cookies. Attackers may be able to get the cookie values by sending a http:// link to a user or by planting this link in a site the user goes to. The cookie will be sent to the insecure link a...

Kronos WebTA /ApplicationBanner Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Kronos WebTA is an attendance system. A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Kronos WebTA /ApplicationBanner, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to inject malicious script or HTML code, which can be used to obtain sensitive information or hijack a user session when malicio...

The vulnerability of the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) component in Oracle Java SE software allows a perpetrator to gain access to modify, add, or delete data, or to unauthorizedly access protected information.

The vulnerability of the Java Secure Socket Extension JSSE in Oracle Java SE software platforms is related to lack of access control mechanisms. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to modify, add, or delete data, or gain unauthorized access to protected information using the HTT...

Interpol Arrests 3 Indonesian Credit Card Hackers for Magecart Attacks

The Indonesian National Police in a joint press conference with Interpol and cybersecurity firm Group-IB earlier today announced the arrest of three Magecart-style Indonesian hackers who had compromised hundreds of international e-commerce websites and stolen payment card details of their online...

Interpol Arrests 3 Indonesian Credit Card Hackers for Magecart Attacks

The Indonesian National Police in a joint press conference with Interpol and cybersecurity firm Group-IB earlier today announced the arrest of three Magecart-style Indonesian hackers who had compromised hundreds of international e-commerce websites and stolen payment card details of their online...

U.N. Weathers Storm of Emotet-TrickBot Malware

The operators behind the notorious Emotet malware have taken aim at United Nations personnel in a targeted attack ultimately bent on delivering the TrickBot trojan. According to researchers at Confense, a concerted phishing campaign has been using emails purporting to be from the Permanent Missio...

Card Skimmer Hits Australian Bushfire Donation Site

Concerned global citizens making donations to help fight the massive Australia bushfires have been caught up in a Magecart attack, after one of the groups implanted a payment-card skimmer on the check-out page of a legitimate online donation site. Researchers ran across the Magecart script, named...

Open-Xchange AppSuite Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-13687)

Open-Xchange AppSuite is a set of Web-based cloud desktop environments from the US-based Open-Xchange. Open-Xchange AppSuite suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability that can be exploited by remote attackers to inject malicious script or HTML code, which can be used to obtain sensitive...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0233)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - When a master password is set, it is required to be entered again before stored passwords can be accessed in the 'Saved Logins' dialog. It was foun...

Ransomware at IT Services Provider Synoptek

Synoptek, a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customers nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. The company has reportedly paid a ransom demand ...

267M Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed Online

A database exposing the names, phone numbers and Facebook user IDs of millions of platform users was left unsecured on the web for nearly two weeks before it was removed. Security researcher Bob Diachenko, who along with Comparitech discovered the unsecured Elasticsearch database, believe it...

Huawei P30 Access Control Error Vulnerability

Huawei P30 is a smartphone from Chinese company Huawei Huawei. An access control error vulnerability exists in the Share feature in Huawei P30 version 9.1.0.193 C00E190R2P1. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to steal information from a P2P network by emulating a sender...

14 Ways to Evade Botnet Malware Attacks On Your Computers

Cybercriminals are busy innovators, adapting their weapons and attack strategies, and ruthlessly roaming the web in search of their next big score. Every manner of sensitive information, such as confidential employee records, customers' financial data, protected medical documents, and government...