Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Financial Document Sharing Email Messages on July 23, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30209 First Published: 2013 July 24 19:04 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain financial documents for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open t...

CVE-2012-6581

Best Practical Solutions RT 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8, when GnuPG is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on reading keys in the product's keyring, and trigger outbound e-mail messages signed by an arbitrary stored secret key, by leveraging a UI e-mail...

Daily Dot News portal hacked by Syrian Electronic Army with phishing attack

Pro-Assad hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army claims to have breached the online news portal "Daily Dot" and deleted an article with a caricature of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. SEA hackers gave an advance warning to Daily Dot editorial team via twitter, said "Dear @dailydot, please remo...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Update Notification Email Messages on July 14, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30080 First Published: 2013 July 16 15:00 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a payment update notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient...

BlackBerry allows Indian government to Intercept emails and Chats

In 2010 the Indian authorities threatened to shut down BlackBerry's infrastructure unless it agreed to comply with lawful access requirements providing the government a way to intercept messages in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The long time dispute between the Indian government and...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Malicious Video Attachment Email Messages on July 8, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29977 First Published: 2013 July 9 15:02 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a video attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Friendship Email Messages on July 8, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29970 First Published: 2013 July 8 15:16 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a friendship message for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open t...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Craft Item Sales Solicitation Email Messages on July 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29947 First Published: 2013 July 5 13:20 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Spanish-language spam email messages that claim to contain a craft items presentation for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to persuade...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Account Download Attachment Email Messages on July 2, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29932 First Published: 2013 July 3 12:26 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain an account download attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convin...

Passwords, Email, Usernames Accessed in Ubisoft Hack

The video game publishing company Ubisoft is urging its users to create new passwords after announcing late last week on a support forum that attackers exploited a vulnerability in one of the company’s websites to gain unauthorized access to some of their online systems. The attackers compromised...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Personal Photo Sharing Email Messages on July 1, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29870 First Published: 2013 July 1 17:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain photos for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the attachment...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payment Form Attachment Email Messages on July 2, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29803 First Published: 2013 June 26 17:25 GMT Last Updated: 2013 July 2 16:05 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to German-language spam email messages that claim to contain a payment form notification for the recipient. The text in th...

Apple Phishing Scams on the Rise

Apple has one of the more gilded consumer brands and the company spends a lot of time and money to keep it that way. Consumers love Apple. Scammers and attackers do too, though, and security researchers in recent months have seen a major spike in the volume of phishing emails abusing Apple’s bran...

NetTraveler Attackers Using PRISM Program as Bait

Never let it be said that attackers don’t keep up with the news. The crew behind the NetTraveler cyberespionage attacks is now using the news about the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program as bait in a new spear-phishing campaign. Security researcher Brandon Dixon of 9bplus came across a malicious...

get_emails

This plugin greps every page for emails, these can be used in other places, like bruteforce plugins, and are of great value when doing a complete information security assessment. Plugin type Grep Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- onlytargetdomain | boole...

Turkish PM Erdogan’s staff emails hacked and leaked by Syrian Electronic Army Hackers as #OpTurkey

Syrian Electronic army appears to be taking part in ongoing operation against Turkey government website. Hackers collectively called Anonymous and SEA breached into Turkish Ministry of Interior website and the private information of staffers in PM Tayyip Erdogan's office. Hackers claimed that the...

IBM Notes Accepts JavaScript Tags Inside HTML Emails

The IBM Notes application installed on the remote Windows host accepts Java applet tags and JavaScript tags inside HTML emails, making it possible to load Java applets and scripts from a remote location. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid66637;...

Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks The Guardian's Twitter Accounts

The Guardian's Twitter accounts have been taken over by pro-Syrian government hackers 'Syrian Electronic Army' , who previously targeted the Associated Press BBC, al-Jazeera, the Qatari government and National Public Radio in the United States, as well as France 24 TV. "We are aware that a number...

50 million customers compromised in LivingSocial hack

LivingSocial, a daily deals website part-owned by Amazon Inc., hit by a cyber attack that may have affected more than 50 million customers and will need to reset their passwords. LivingSocial says it has 70 million members worldwide. Leaked data includes names, e-mail addresses, dates of birth an...

Osama Bin Laden-Themed Phishing

Summary The intent of this advisory is to provide general guidance to public and private sector organizations and individuals on potential targeted phishing attacks often referred to as “spear phishing” with respect to the Osama Bin Laden related media reporting, and to offer some suggested metho...