FTC Releases Alert on Fraudulent Emails

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert about scammers sending out fake emails that look authentic to trick you into sending money to them. Users should be suspicious of unsolicited phone calls or email messages from individuals asking about your information. If an unknown individu...

Pawn Storm – A Look Into this Cyberespionage Actor Group

In April 2017 my monthly threat webinar focused on a cyberespionage group our Forward-Looking Threat Researcher, Feike Hacquebord, has been following for many years and recently published a report into the most recent two years of activities. In this post I want to focus on their tools and tactic...

FTC Promotes Privacy Awareness Week

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an announcement on Privacy Awareness Week, celebrated this week in the U.S. The theme of this year’s initiative is “Share with Care,” and the FTC is offering privacy tips, including how to safeguard your information online, improve your computer...

Carbanak Attackers Devise Clever New Persistence Trick

Hackers behind the Carbanak criminal gang have devised a clever way to gain persistence on targeted systems to more effectively pull off financially motivated crimes. The technique involves creating a bogus instance of a Microsoft Windows app compatibility feature. On Wednesday, Mandiant, FireEye...

Dridex and Locky Return Via PDF Attachments in Latest Campaigns

Dridex and Locky, two prolific malware families that made waves in 2016 after being distributed in several high-volume spam campaigns, have returned after a brief hiatus. FireEye observed a decline in the volume of Dridex and Locky in the latter half of 2016, but we recently observed two new larg...

Google Docs Phishing Campaign

US-CERT is aware of a phishing campaign that affected Google Docs users. The campaign used spoofed email addresses to target users with emails purporting to share a document for collaboration. Once the targeted users accepted invitations, they were encouraged to allow the phishing program access ...

Unauthorized Modification Of Data

github.com/go-gitea/gitea is vulnerable to unauthorized deletion of user emails. A malicious user can modify the HTTP post requests to delete another user's email...

Russian Hacker Selling Cheap Ransomware-as-a-Service On Dark Web

Ransomware has been around for a few years, but it has become an albatross around everyone's neck, targeting businesses, hospitals, financial institutions and individuals worldwide and extorting millions of dollars. Forget about developing sophisticated banking trojans and malware to steal money...

CVE-2016-4868

Email header injection vulnerability in Cybozu Office 9.0.0 to 10.4.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary email headers to send unintended emails via specially crafted requests...

Design/Logic Flaw

Email header injection vulnerability in Cybozu Office 9.0.0 to 10.4.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary email headers to send unintended emails via specially crafted requests...

CVE-2016-2565

Samsung SecEmailSync on SM-G920F build G920FXXU2COH2 Galaxy S6 devices allows attackers to read sent e-mail messages, aka SVE-2015-5081...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28737: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 12, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53431 First Published: 2017 April 12 17:10 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID28737 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

The Word exposed 0day vulnerabilities: no need to enable the macros, open the document it automatically install a malicious program-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! In fact, the use of Word macros as the distribution of malicious programs is the way today's conventional via, so many people choose to disable macros, but if you say disable the macros are useless, such a malicious Word document danger is quite different. Recently, McAfee and FireEye security...

HackerOne: Lack of input sanitization in Marketo form leads to execution of HTML in lead emails

Hi, There is SSRF vulnerability due to img tag injection in "Contact HackerOne Sales" form. Since vulnerability triggers after 18-20 minutes so I am not sure which site it affects. It might affect hackerone or marketo. So I thought it would be better to report it first on hackerone. POC 1. Naviga...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28653: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 7, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53367 First Published: 2017 April 7 12:52 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID28653 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Github Repository Owners Targeted by Data-Stealing Malware

Phishing emails zeroing in on developers who own Github repositories were infecting victims with malware capable of stealing data through keyloggers and modules that would snag screenshots. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks this week said that in mid-January, an unknown number of developers were...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28451: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on March 23, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53138 First Published: 2017 March 23 16:51 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID28451 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28370: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on March 20, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53079 First Published: 2017 March 20 18:44 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID28370 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Tax-themed phishing and malware attacks proliferate during the tax filing season

Tax-themed scams and social engineering attacks are as certain as death or tax itself. Every year we see these attacks, and 2017 is no different. These attacks circulate year-round as cybercriminals take advantage of the different country and region tax schedules, but they peak in the months...

CVE-2017-0110

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Outlook Web Access OWA allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted email or chat client, aka "Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."...