Input validation

TitanHQ SpamTitan before 7.01 has Improper input validation. This allows internal attackers to bypass the anti-spam filter to send malicious emails to an entire organization by modifying the URL requests sent to the application...

CVE-2018-15136

TitanHQ SpamTitan before 7.01 has Improper input validation. This allows internal attackers to bypass the anti-spam filter to send malicious emails to an entire organization by modifying the URL requests sent to the application...

GandCrab ransomware and Ursnif virus spreading via MS Word macros

Security researchers have discovered two separate malware campaigns, one of which is distributing the Ursnif data-stealing trojan and the GandCrab ransomware in the wild, whereas the second one is only infecting victims with Ursnif malware. Though both malware campaigns appear to be a work of two...

Cisco AMP tracks new campaign that delivers Ursnif

This blog post was authored by John Arneson of Cisco Talos Executive Summary Cisco Talos once again spotted the Ursnif malware in the wild. We tracked this information stealer after Cisco's Advanced Malware Protection AMP Exploit Prevention engine alerted us to these Ursnif infections. Thanks to...

BEC Will Reach Two Levels Deeper

In our predictions report for 2019, “Mapping the Future: Dealing with Pervasive and Persistent Threats,” we foresaw an increase in the rate of BEC business email compromise attacks: “Business email compromise will go two levels down in the org chart.” From the report: | “Business email compromise...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Jan. 18

Exposed personal data seemed to be the big trend this week, which was overshadowed by Troy Hunt’s discovery of a database of breached emails totaling 773 million unique addresses in a popular cloud service. Millions of sensitive files on a storage server belonging to the Oklahoma Department of...

Two Hackers Charged with Hacking SEC System in Stock-Trading Scheme

The U.S. authorities have charged two Ukrainian hackers for hacking into the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR filing system and stealing sensitive market-moving reports of companies before their public release. EDGAR, or Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval, is an online...

Be careful of data without context: The case of malware scanning of journaled emails

Recently, we shared details on how effectiveness is measured for Office 365 Exchange Online Protection EOP and Advanced Threat Protection ATP. We also followed up with a comprehensive update on Office 365s improved ability to stop phishing emails from impacting users. These reports highlighted:...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Djvuu Ransomware

Summary Djvuu ransomware is believed to be a newer variant of the “Stop” ransomware strain, which was seen circulating in the early part of 2018. There are also similarities to the Goren-B trojan originally reported by Sophos back in 2016. Djvuu is likely to be delivered through phishing e-mail...

Webgalamb Information Disclosure / XSS / CSRF / SQL Injection

Summary ------- Vendor: E.N.S. Zrt www.ens.hu Product: Webgalamb www.webgalamb.hu, www.facebook.com/webgalamb Webgalamb is a commercial email marketing software for managing subscription lists and sending out bulk emails. It is not SaaS but a PHP based web application that is typically hosted nex...

Town of Salem Data Breach Exposes 7.6 Million Gamers' Accounts

A massive data breach at the popular online role-playing game 'Town of Salem' has reportedly impacted more than 7.6 million players, the game owner BlankMediaGames BMG confirmed Wednesday on its online forum. With the user base of more than 8 million players, Town of Salem is a browser-based game...

CVE-2018-18509

A flaw during verification of certain S/MIME signatures causes emails to be shown in Thunderbird as having a valid digital signature, even if the shown message contents aren't covered by the signature. The flaw allows an attacker to reuse a valid S/MIME signature to craft an email message with...

Christmas tech scams roundup

There’s a fair few Christmas tech scams floating around out there as 2018 winds up, and we thought it’d be a good time to warn you about them. It’s the usual mish-mash of phone antics, social media shenanigans, and click bait. Shall we begin? This scam looks divine BOOM reports on a collection of...

New email extortion scam warns “Pay $4,000 or a hitman is coming for you”

By Carolina In a new extortion scam, a cybercriminal is sending threatening emails to unsuspecting users asking them to pay a whopping $4,000 in Bitcoin or wait to be executed by a hitman. The email extortion scam surfaced on the Internet a few days ago and is currently arriving in victim's inbox...

Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Top Botnet Trends

Botnet activity saw a healthy amount of dynamism in 2018. There were new types of devices being targeted, such as carrier-grade MikroTik hardware; and, there was also a host of new types of criminal activity surfacing making the point that botnets aren’t just for DDoS anymore. New types of...

CVE-2018-20154

The WP Maintenance Mode plugin before 2.0.7 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to discover all subscriber e-mail addresses...

CVE-2018-20154

The WP Maintenance Mode plugin before 2.0.7 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to discover all subscriber e-mail addresses...

Hackers bypassed Gmail & Yahoo’s 2FA to target US officials

By Waqas The attack was carried out by Iran-backed charming kitten hackers and victims include dozens of US government officials. Private emails of US sanctions officials and nuclear scientists have been breached by Iranian state-sponsored hackers. As per the data obtained by Certfa, a...

Bitcoin Bomb Scare Associated with Sextortion Scammers

This blog was written by Jaeson Schultz. Organizations across the country are on edge today after a flurry of phony bomb threats hit several public entities Thursday, such as universities, schools and news outlets, among others. The attackers distributed malicious emails claiming to have placed...

6 Security Tips to Consider While You Travel

Following the “8 Ways to Avoid the Cybersecurity Grinch” blog post, it seems like a follow-up is in order given the recent Marriott Breach disclosure. It is important to note that when we travel, similar to when we shop, we are putting our trust in the organizations we are dealing with during our...