CVE-2017-12337

A vulnerability in the upgrade mechanism of Cisco collaboration products based on the Cisco Voice Operating System software platform could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized, elevated access to an affected device. The vulnerability occurs when a refresh upgrade RU or...

Bad romance: catphishing explained

You've heard or read about some variant of this story before: Girl meets Boy on a dating website. Girl falls in love. Boy claims he does, too. Girl is excited to meet Boy soon. But at the last minute, Girl finds out that Boy 1 had an accident and broke a hip; 2 has a very sick relative he needs t...

Cisco Voice Operating System-Based Products Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the upgrade mechanism of Cisco collaboration products based on the Cisco Voice Operating System software platform could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized, elevated access to an affected device. The vulnerability occurs when a refresh upgrade or Prim...

Threat Predictions for Financial Services and Fraud in 2018

The landscape in 2017 In 2017 we've seen fraud attacks in financial services become increasingly account-centric. Customer data is a key enabler for large-scale fraud attacks and the frequency of data breaches among other successful attack types has provided cybercriminals with valuable sources o...

CVE-2017-7839

Control characters prepended before "javascript:" URLs pasted in the addressbar can cause the leading characters to be ignored and the pasted JavaScript to be executed instead of being blocked. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting self-XSS attacks where users are...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7839

Control characters prepended before "javascript:" URLs pasted in the addressbar can cause the leading characters to be ignored and the pasted JavaScript to be executed instead of being blocked. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting self-XSS attacks where users are...

CVE-2017-7840

JavaScript can be injected into an exported bookmarks file by placing JavaScript code into user-supplied tags in saved bookmarks. If the resulting exported HTML file is later opened in a browser this JavaScript will be executed. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripti...

How to solve the Malwarebytes CrackMe: a step-by-step tutorial

The topic of this post is a Malwarebytes CrackMe—an exercise in malware analysis that I recently created. First, the challenge was created to serve internal purposes, but then it was released to the community on Twitter and triggered a lot of positive response. Thanks to all of you who sent in yo...

Disdain exploit kit and a side of social engineering deliver Neutrino Bot

Today we picked up new activity from an exploit kit that was first discovered back in August of this year. The Disdain exploit kit, simply identified by a string of the same name found in its source code, is being distributed again after a short interruption via malvertising chains. Disdain EK...

Tor Browser Users Urged to Patch Critical ‘TorMoil’ Vulnerability

The Tor Project released a patch for a vulnerability that leaks the real IP addresses of macOS and Linux users of its Tor Browser. The patch was issued late Friday and fixes a vulnerability found in Tor Browser version 7.0.8. The patch is in an upgrade to Tor Browser 7.0.9. Windows users running...

IRISSCON security conference comes to Dublin in November

It's that time of the year when IRISSCON—the biggest security conference in Ireland, in my humble opinion—springs into life with a great collection of talks and Capture the Flag events. Held on November 23 in Dublin, there will be a strong focus on working in Infosec this year, alongside some of...

Trihedral Engineering Limited VTScada Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

VTScada is a SCADA system from Trihedral Engineering, Canada, based on a Windows platform with a Web interface option. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in Trihedral Engineering Limited VTScada, which allows a local, non-administrative user to read and write to the file system of the...

Trihedral Engineering Limited VTScada DLL Hijacking Vulnerability

VTScada is a SCADA system from Trihedral Engineering, Canada, based on a Windows platform with a Web interface option. Trihedral Engineering Limited VTScada suffers from a DLL hijacking vulnerability that could allow an attacker to cause the program to execute a specially crafted malicious dll fi...

Halloween Special: Inside a Hacker’s Mind During the Cyber “Kill Chain”

Editor's Note: This blog was originally produced by former Carbon Black Chief Security Strategist and Co-founder, Ben Johnson. In the spirit of Halloween, I’ve decided to demonstrate how a hacker might go after your company, via the full “kill chain.” Muhahaha! Ok, it may not be that scary or as...

Trihedral Engineering Limited VTScada

CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Trihedral Engineering Limited Equipment: VTScada Vulnerabilities: Improper Access Control, Uncontrolled Search Path Element AFFECTED PRODUCTS Trihedral Engineering Limited reports that the vulnerability affects the following versions of t...

web.tricolib.brynmawr.edu XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-378373 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| web.tricolib.brynmawr.edu Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Preventi...

eee.manchester.ac.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-372754 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| eee.manchester.ac.uk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

HTML Injection

github.com/gogits/gogs is vulnerable to HTML injection. The user search API can be used to inject HTML content. An attacker could insert spoofed content to carry out some form of social engineering attack. HTML injection is an attack that is similar to cross-site scripting but does not execute...

Bad Rabbit ransomware

UPDATE 27.10.2017. Decryption opportunity assessment. File recovery possibility. Verdicts What happened? On October 24th we observed notifications of mass attacks with ransomware called Bad Rabbit. It has been targeting organizations and consumers, mostly in Russia but there have also been report...

October 20, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Cats” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 20, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Inside the thriving...