Iranian Hackers Pose as Journalists to Trick Victims Into Installing Malware

An Iranian cyberespionage group known for targeting government, defense technology, military, and diplomacy sectors is now impersonating journalists to approach targets via LinkedIn and WhatsApp and infect their devices with malware. Detailing the new tactics of the "Charming Kitten" APT group,...

Malicious Attachments Remain a Cybercriminal Threat Vector Favorite

While attachment threat vectors are one of the oldest malware-spreading tricks in the books, email users are still clicking on malicious attachments that hit their inbox, whether it’s a purported “job offer” or a pretend “critical invoice.” The reason why threat actors are still relying on this...

krimm.choikedelivery.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1273008

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

Sitadel

This is a web application security scanner called Sitadel, which is an update for WAScan making it compatible with Python 3.4 and above. It allows for more flexibility in writing new modules and implementing new features, such as frontend framework detection, content delivery network detection, a...

Azbuka Vkusa: IDOR - Other user's delivery address disclosed

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Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2020-4329)

Summary IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-4329 DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0 and Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 20.0.0.4 could allow a remote, authenticated attacker to...

Security Bulletin: Autocomplete not disabled for password field in IBM Content Navigator.

Summary IBM Content Navigator has addressed the following vulnerability. Vulnerability Details Third Party Entry: PSIRT-ADV0024961 DESCRIPTION: Created from Advisory: ADV0024961 CVSS Base score: 6.2 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Affected Products and Versions Affected...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to a Kubernetes vulnerability (CVE-2019-11254)

Summary IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to a Kubernetes vulnerability Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-11254 DESCRIPTION: Kubernetes is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in kube-apiserver. By sending a specially-crafted request using YAML payloads, a remote authenticated...

Researchers Warn of Active Malware Campaign Using HTML Smuggling

An active campaign has been spotted that utilizes HTML smuggling to deliver malware, effectively bypassing various network security solutions, including sandboxes, legacy proxies and firewalls. Krishnan Subramanian, security researcher with Menlo Security, told Threatpost that the campaign...

mail/dovecot -- multiple vulnerabilities

Aki Tuomi reports: When imap hibernation is active, an attacker can cause Dovecot to discover file system directory structure and access other users' emails using specially crafted command. The attacker must have valid credentials to access the mail server. Mail delivery / parsing crashed when th...

Addressing the Video Quality and Performance Measurement Gap with Quality of Performance (QoP) Metrics

Ubiquity of Digital Video Means Meeting Viewers' Quality Expectations Digital video viewership is on an aggressive growth course. Globally, consumers will spend 84 minutes a day watching online video in 2020, up 25% from 2018i, and digital video viewership will increase from 35% in 2019 to more...

Dovecot 2.0 < 2.3.11.3 DoS Vulnerability

Dovecot is prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot";...

Vxscan

This is a Python-based comprehensive scanning tool called Vxscan, which is used for sensitive file detection, WAF/CDN identification, port scanning, fingerprint/service identification, operating system identification, weak password detection, POC scanning, SQL injection, and other functions. The...

Spam and phishing in Q2 2020

Quarterly highlights Targeted attacks The second quarter often saw phishers resort to targeted attacks, especially against fairly small companies. To attract attention, scammers imitated email messages and websites of companies whose products or services their potential victims could be using. Th...

How to organize your security team: The evolution of cybersecurity roles and responsibilities

Digital transformation, cloud computing, and a sophisticated threat landscape are forcing everyone to rethink the functions of each role on their security teams, from Chief Information Security Officers CISOs to practitioners. With billions of people around the globe working from home, changes to...

Black Hat Presentation - Web Cache Entanglement

Overview Akamai is aware of the 'Web Cache Entanglement: Novel Pathways to Poisoning' presentation at BlackHat on August 5, 2020. Two security vulnerabilities related to our content delivery networks' caching functionality were presented as part of this research. Akamai would like to thank James...

MMS Exploit Part 4: MMS Primer, Completing the ASLR Oracle

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Project Zero This post is the fourth of a multi-part series capturing my journey from discovering a vulnerable little-known Samsung image codec, to completing a remote zero-click MMS attack that worked on the latest Samsung flagship devices. New posts will be published ...

Malspam campaign caught using GuLoader after service relaunch

They say any publicity is good publicity. But perhaps this isnt true for CloudEye, an Italian firm that claims to provide "the next generation of Windows executables protection". First described by Proofpoint security researchers in March 2020, GuLoader is a downloader used by threat actors to...

Is Your Security Vendor Forcing You To Move to the Cloud? You Don't Have To!

Many endpoint security vendors are beginning to offer their applications only in the cloud, sunsetting their on-premise offerings. This approach may be beneficial to the vendor, but many clients continue to need on-premise solutions. Vendors that sunset on-premise solutions force clients that...

Vxscan

This is a Python script for a comprehensive scanning tool called Vxscan. The tool is designed to perform various types of scans, including sensitive file detection, WAF/CDN identification, port scanning, fingerprint/service identification, operating system identification, weak password detection,...