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‘Battle for the Galaxy’ Mobile Game Leaks 6M Gamer Profiles
An Elasticsearch server holding personal data of 6 million players of the popular mobile game Battle for the Galaxy was discovered insecure and containing over 1 terabyte of unencrypted data, meaning anyone with a link could access data stored on the repository. Ethical hackers WizCase found the...
Cybercrime, fraud, and insider threats increased in 2020 in the UK, report says
Since the initial lockdown, we have seen the rise of certain types of cybercrime, including scams and fraud campaigns that either bank on the global COVID-19 pandemic or take advantage of potential victims that adhere to work-from-home measures. In the UK, the National Crime Agency NCA has...
Coronavirus phishing: “Welcome back to the office…”
As offices start to slowly open back up, the theoretically post-pandemic world is changing its threat landscape once again, and that includes the likely inclusion of coronavirus phishing attempts. With the move to remote work, attackers switched up their tactics. Personal devices and home network...
Email spoofing: how attackers impersonate legitimate senders
Introduction In a nutshell, email spoofing is the creation of fake emails that seem legitimate. This article analyzes the spoofing of email addresses through changing the From header, which provides information about the senders name and address. SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, the main email...
What is phishing attacks❓ Types and business impact
According to Wikipedia, phishing is a fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive data by impersonating oneself as a trustworthy entity. Much like any other kind of fraud, the perpetrator is able to cause a significant amount of damage, especially when the threat persists for an extended period...
The vulnerability of the Thunderbird email client arises due to insufficient implementation of security measures, allowing attackers to compromise data integrity.
The vulnerability of the Thunderbird email client exists due to insufficient implementation of security measures. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to manipulate data integrity through a specially crafted email with MIME encoding. Such emails contain an embedded signed or...
Hackers Exploit Post-COVID Return to Offices
With COVID-19 restrictions lifting and workers trickling back to offices, threat actors are sharpening their spear phishing ploys. The latest scam includes pelting recipients with emails purportedly from their CIOs welcoming employees back into offices. The emails outline a company’s post-pandemi...
CVE-2020-27831
A flaw was found in Red Hat Quay, where it does not properly protect the authorization token when authorizing email addresses for repository email notifications. This flaw allows an attacker to add email addresses they do not own to repository notifications...
PT-2021-11422 · Red Hat · Red Hat Quay
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Red Hat Quay affected versions not specified Description: A flaw was found in Red Hat Quay, where it does not properly protect the authorization token when authorizing email addresses for repository email notifications. This flaw allows an...
American Express Fined Over Millions of Spam Messages
American Express Services Europe has been fined £90,000 $127,377 by a U.K. regulator, which found the company illegally blasted out 4 million marketing emails to customers who had opted out of receiving them. Critics said the fine, which is nominal for the multi-national financial brand, isn’t...
What To Do When Your Business Is Hacked
As businesses move to a remote workforce, hackers have increased their activity to capitalize on new security holes. Cybercriminals often use unsophisticated methods that continue to be extremely successful. These include phishing emails to harvest credentials and gain easy access to...
Microsoft Warns of Data Stealing Malware That Pretends to Be Ransomware
Microsoft on Thursday warned of a "massive email campaign" that's pushing a Java-based STRRAT malware to steal confidential data from infected systems while disguising itself as a ransomware infection. "This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension...
Phorpiex morphs: How a longstanding botnet persists and thrives in the current threat environment
Phorpiex, an enduring botnet known for extortion campaigns and for using old-fashioned worms that spread via removable USB drives and instant messaging apps, began diversifying its infrastructure in recent years to become more resilient and to deliver more dangerous payloads. Today, the Phorphiex...
Phorpiex morphs: How a longstanding botnet persists and thrives in the current threat environment
Phorpiex, an enduring botnet known for extortion campaigns and for using old-fashioned worms that spread via removable USB drives and instant messaging apps, began diversifying its infrastructure in recent years to become more resilient and to deliver more dangerous payloads. Today, the Phorphiex...
Microsoft, Google Clouds Hijacked for Gobs of Phish
Threat actors are cashing in on the rapid shift to cloud-based business services during the pandemic, by hiding behind ubiquitous, trusted services from Microsoft and Google to make their email phishing scams look legit. And it’s working. In fact, in the first three months of 2021 alone,...
CVE-2021-28585
Magento versions 2.4.2 and earlier, 2.4.1-p1 and earlier and 2.3.6-p1 and earlier are affected by an Improper input validation vulnerability in the New customer WebAPI.Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to send unsolicited spam e-mails...
PT-2021-3433 · Adobe · Magento
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Magento versions 2.4.2 and earlier Magento versions 2.4.1-p1 and earlier Magento versions 2.3.6-p1 and earlier Description: The issue is related to improper input validation in the New customer WebAPI, which could allow an attacker to send...
Sifchain: Email Spoofing on sifchain.finance
Summary: There is an Email Spoofing vulnerability on your domain sifchain.finance which allows an attacker to send an email with your domain namesuch as [email protected] and so on. Steps To Reproduce: Go to http://emkei.cz Fill "From Email" field to [email protected] or any other...
Apple Execs Chose to Keep a Hack of 128 Million iPhones Quiet
Emails from the Epic Games lawsuit show Apple brass discussing how to handle a 2015 iOS hack. The company never directly notified affected users...
Regular Expression Denial of Service
Overview npm-user-validate before 1.0.1 is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. The regex that validates user emails took exponentially longer to process long input strings beginning with @ characters. Recommendation Upgrade to version 1.0.1 or later References - CVE - GitHub Advis...