4 Dangerous Brazilian Banking Trojans Now Trying to Rob Users Worldwide

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday detailed as many as four different families of Brazilian banking trojans that have targeted financial institutions in Brazil, Latin America, and Europe. Collectively called the "Tetrade" by Kaspersky researchers, the malware families — comprising Guildma,...

Email Sender Identity is Key to Solving the Phishing Crisis

Email is in crisis. Despite massive advancements in perimeter and endpoint defenses, email remains a cybersecurity weak link for many companies. Why? Email is at the heart of everything we do online. It’s an essential line of communication for one-on-one and group conversations, both...

CVE-2020-14168

The email client in Jira Server and Data Center before version 7.13.16, from 8.5.0 before 8.5.7, from 8.8.0 before 8.8.2, and from 8.9.0 before 8.9.1 allows remote attackers to access outgoing emails between a Jira instance and the SMTP server via man-in-the-middle MITM vulnerability...

Security feature bypass

The email client in Jira Server and Data Center before version 7.13.16, from 8.5.0 before 8.5.7, from 8.8.0 before 8.8.2, and from 8.9.0 before 8.9.1 allows remote attackers to access outgoing emails between a Jira instance and the SMTP server via man-in-the-middle MITM vulnerability...

CVE-2020-14168

The MITM vulnerability CVE-2020-14168 affects Jira Server and Data Center’s email client. Affected: Jira versions prior to 7.13.16; 8.5.x before 8.5.7; 8.8.x before 8.8.2; 8.9.x before 8.9.1. Impact: remote attackers could access outgoing emails between a Jira instance and the SMTP server. Remedi...

Popular Techniques Used by Cybercriminals Amid COVID-19

Editor's Note: Gary Stevens, a technology writer, is posting as a guest author to carbonblack.com. Cybercriminals constantly leverage fear and confusion by launching cyberattacks during major world events. Such attacks are mostly carried out with social engineering campaigns using malicious email...

Popular Techniques Used by Cybercriminals Amid COVID-19

Editor's Note: Gary Stevens, a technology writer, is posting as a guest author to carbonblack.com. Cybercriminals constantly leverage fear and confusion by launching cyberattacks during major world events. Such attacks are mostly carried out with social engineering campaigns using malicious email...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Mattermost Server (CNVD-2020-48224)

Mattermost Server is the United States Mattermost company's set of open source messaging platform. A security vulnerability exists in Mattermost Server. The vulnerability can be exploited to bypass domain-based registration policies with the help of multiple email addresses. The following product...

PT-2020-13417 · Gitlab · Gitlab Ce/Ee +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GitLab CE/EE versions prior to 13.0.1 Description: The issue allows a user to set an email as a notification email without verifying the new email. Recommendations: For versions prior to 13.0.1, update to version 13.0.1 or later to resolve th...

Microsoft Outlook Users Targeted By Gamaredon's New VBA Macro

The Gamaredon threat group has given its post-compromise toolset a facelift with the addition of a new Visual Basic for Applications VBA macro. The VBA macro leverages compromised victims’ Microsoft Outlook email accounts to send spear-phishing emails to their contacts – rapidly widening the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: php-phpmailer6-6.1.6-1.fc31

PHPMailer - A full-featured email creation and transfer class for PHP Class Features Probably the world's most popular code for sending email from PHP! Used by many open-source projects: WordPress, Drupal, 1CRM, SugarCRM, Yii, Joomla! and many more Integrated SMTP support - send without a local...

This Week in Security News: Google Faces Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in Incognito Mode and TrickBot Adds Enterprise-grade Module to Malware Arsenal

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a new module for the infamous trojan known as TrickBot that has been deployed. Also, read about Google’s $5 billion class-action...

Trump, Biden Campaign Staffers Targeted By APT Phishing Emails

With the U.S. presidential election months away, advanced persistent threat APT groups are targeting the campaign staffers of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden in recent phishing attacks. On Thursday, Shane Huntley with Google’s Threat Analysis Group said on Twitter that two separate phishing...

ZLoader-Laced Emails Masquerade As CVs From Job-Seekers

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the massive uptick in unemployment across the U.S. in a recent spear-phishing campaign, which purports to be CVs sent from job-seekers – but actually spreads banking credential-stealing malware. Researchers recently uncovered emails that distributed maliciou...

Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) Portal Suffers Data Breach

Joomla, one of the most popular Open-source content management systems CMS, last week announced a new data breach impacting 2,700 users who have an account with its resources directory JRD website, i.e., resources.joomla.org. The breach exposed affected users' personal information, such as full...

Information Disclosure

com.liferay.login.web is vulnerable to information disclosure. During the user account creation and logging-in, since the default setting login.create.account.allow.custom.password is set to true, it emails the passwords to the users by default, allowing a man-in-the-middle to get access to it...

CVE-2020-4015

The /json/fe/activeUserFinder.do resource in Altassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.8.1 allows remote attackers to view user user email addresses via a information disclosure vulnerability...

Hurricane-Related Scams

June 1 marks the official start of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warns users to remain on alert for malicious cyber activity targeting potential disaster victims and charitable donors following a hurricane. Fraudulent emails—often...

‘Hack-For-Hire’ Firms Spoof WHO To Target Google Credentials

“Hack-for-hire” organizations are the latest group of cybercriminals to take advantage of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, using COVID-19 as a lure in phishing emails bent on stealing victims’ Google credentials. Researchers with Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG warned that they’ve spotted a...

Crooks Tap Google Firebase in Fresh Phishing Tactic

A series of phishing campaigns using Google Firebase storage URLs have surfaced, showing that cybercriminals continue to leverage the reputation of Google’s cloud infrastructure to dupe victims and skate by secure email gateways. Google Firebase is a mobile and web application development platfor...