Malicious Chrome Extension Steals Data Posted to Any Website

Malicious browser extensions continue to bear fruit for hackers who have been using them to spread banking malware and adware, and hijacking popular add-ons to spread other nasty code. The latest abuse involves a Google Chrome extension being spread in phishing emails that steals any data posted...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Admin Console in Ignite Realtime Openfire Server before 4.1.7 allows arbitrary client-side JavaScript code execution on victims who click a crafted setup/setup-host-settings.jsp?domain= link, aka XSS. Session ID and data theft may follow as well as the possibility of bypassing CSRF protection...

CVE-2017-15911

The Admin Console in Ignite Realtime Openfire Server before 4.1.7 allows arbitrary client-side JavaScript code execution on victims who click a crafted setup/setup-host-settings.jsp?domain= link, aka XSS. Session ID and data theft may follow as well as the possibility of bypassing CSRF protection...

Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The elaborate standard library includes an HTTP server “WEBRick” and a class for XML parsing “REXML”. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

Ruby http gem man-in-the-middle attack vulnerability

The Ruby http gem is a standard package for managing Ruby libraries and programs. A man-in-the-middle attack vulnerability exists in Ruby http gem versions prior to 0.7.3, which stems from the program failing to validate the hostname during an SSL connection. A remote attacker could use this...

What You Should Know About the ‘KRACK’ WiFi Security Weakness

Researchers this week published information about a newfound, serious weakness in WPA2 -- the security standard that protects all modern Wi-Fi networks. What follows is a short rundown on what exactly is at stake here, who's most at-risk from this vulnerability, and what organizations and...

Design/Logic Flaw

osTicket 1.10.1 allows arbitrary client-side JavaScript code execution on victims who click a crafted support/scp/tickets.php?status= link, aka XSS. Session ID and data theft may follow as well as the possibility of bypassing CSRF protections, injection of iframes to establish communication...

CVE-2017-15362

CVE-2017-15362 corresponds to a stored/reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) issue in osTicket 1.10.1 where an attacker can trigger JavaScript execution by persuading a logged-in user to click a crafted link in tickets.php (status parameter). The core problem is client-side script execution throug...

Cross site scripting

Insufficient cross site scripting protection in J-Web component in Juniper Networks Junos OS may potentially allow a remote unauthenticated user to inject web script or HTML and steal sensitive data and credentials from a J-Web session and to perform administrative actions on the Junos device...

CVE-2016-4923

Insufficient cross site scripting protection in J-Web component in Juniper Networks Junos OS may potentially allow a remote unauthenticated user to inject web script or HTML and steal sensitive data and credentials from a J-Web session and to perform administrative actions on the Junos device...

CVE-2016-4923

CVE-2016-4923 affects Junos OS J-Web. The vulnerability arises from insufficient cross-site scripting protection in the J-Web component, enabling a remote unauthenticated user to inject script/HTML, potentially stealing data and allowing administrative actions on the Junos device. Affected releas...

2013 Yahoo Breach Affected All 3 Billion Accounts

A massive breach of Yahoo’s systems in 2013 impacted every account in existence at the time, the company said last night in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yahoo disclosed the breach last December when it revealed that it believed 1 billion accounts were compromised. Las...

Information disclosure

The client-forwarder in Elastic Cloud Enterprise versions prior to 1.0.2 do not properly encrypt traffic to ZooKeeper. If an attacker is able to man in the middle MITM the traffic between the client-forwarder and ZooKeeper they could potentially obtain sensitive data...

Amazon's Whole Foods Market Suffers Credit Card Breach In Some Stores

Another day, another data breach. This time Amazon-owned grocery chain has fallen victim to a credit card security breach. Whole Foods Market—acquired by Amazon for $13.7 billion in late August—disclosed Thursday that hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to credit card information for it...

Mobile Stock Trading App Providers Unresponsive to Glaring Vulnerabilities

More than 20 of the most popular mobile trading applications used by consumers and day-traders for securities transactions contain glaring vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to sniff personal data or steal money from accounts. Researchers from IOActive today published a report describing...

CVE-2017-7974

A path traversal information disclosure vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric's U.motion Builder software versions 1.2.1 and prior in which an unauthenticated user can execute arbitrary code and exfiltrate files...

A simple example of a complex cyberattack

We're already used to the fact that complex cyberattacks use 0-day vulnerabilities, bypassing digital signature checks, virtual file systems, non-standard encryption algorithms and other tricks. Sometimes, however, all of this may be done in much simpler ways, as was the case in the malicious...

Malware Steals Data From Air-Gapped Network via Security Cameras

Proof-of-concept malware called aIR-Jumper can be used to defeat air-gapped network protections and send data in and out of a targeted network. The technique uses security cameras and infrared LED lights that can blink back and forth to each other transmitting data that has been converted into da...

Hacker Can Steal Data from Air-Gapped Computers Using IR CCTV Cameras

Air-gapped computers that are isolated from the Internet and physically separated from local networks are believed to be the most secure computers which are difficult to infiltrate. However, these networks have been a regular target in recent years for researchers, who have been trying to...

VMware vCenter Server HTML Injection Vulnerability

VMware vCenter Server enables rapid deployment of virtual machines and monitors the performance of physical servers and virtual machines. An HTML injection vulnerability exists in VMware vCenter Server, which allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to inject malicious script or HTML...