FBI Arrests Two Hackers Who Hacked US Spy Chief, FBI and CIA Director

US authorities have arrested two North Carolina men on charges that they were part of the notorious hacking group "Crackas With Attitude." Crackas with Attitude is the group of hackers who allegedly was behind a series of audacious and embarrassing hacks that targeted personal email accounts of...

Adding CIA to DNA

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributor is Alexandrea Mellen. White and black hat hackers specialize in altering, accessing and sometimes destroying information. Genetic engineers take th...

Kali Linux 2016.2 — Download Latest Release Of Best Operating System For Hackers

As promised at the Black Hat and Def Con security and hacking conferences, Offensive Security – the creators of Swiss army knife for researchers, penetration testers, and hackers – has finally released the much awaited Kali Linux 2016.2. Kali Linux is an open-source Debian-based Linux distributio...

Double-click me not: Malicious proxy settings in OLE Embedded Script

Attackers have been using social engineering to avoid the increasing costs of exploitation due to the significant hardening and exploit mitigations investments in Windows. Tricking a user into running a malicious file or malware can be cheaper for an attacker than building an exploit which works ...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Engineering Quality Supervision Station Comprehensive Information Service Platform of Zhuhai Xinhua Tong Software Co.

Engineering Quality Supervision Station comprehensive information service platform is mainly construction project quality and safety supervision and other related series of software products. The product exists SQL injection vulnerability, the vulnerability URL is:...

GozNym Banking Trojan Targeting German Banks

GozNym’s Euro trip rolls on. Fresh from targeting banks in Poland, the banking Trojan has reportedly begun taking aim at banks in Germany. For many, August marks the long, dog days of summer but developers behind GozNym appear to be working hard. According to numbers published by IBM’s X-Force te...

FTC Releases Alert on Louisiana Flood Disaster Scams

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on scams that cite the recent flood disaster in Louisiana. These charity scams take many forms, including emails containing links or attachments that direct users to phishing or malware-infected websites. Donation requests from fraudulent...

Embedded Hardware Hacking 101 – The Belkin WeMo Link

Why Embedded Hacking? Devices that are connected to the Internet or run a full operating system are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s society. From devices for locomotives to wireless light switches, the Internet of Things IoT trend is on the rise and here to stay. This has the potentia...

Airbnb: ████ discloses valid Airbnb SSO login names via Google Search Results

Hello, There is an Information leakage type weakness present on ███████ which supposedly works as a Single Sign On SSO gateway for Airbnb's corporate services. The weakness is present due to lack of robots exclusions policy file robots.txt present on this domain which allows web crawlers such as...

Operation Ghoul Targeting Middle Eastern Industrial, Engineering Organizations

Researchers today identified a series of ongoing targeted attacks primarily designed to steal sensitive corporate financial data from industrial and engineering organizations in the Middle East. The group behind the campaign, nicknamed Operation Ghoul by researchers at Kaspersky Lab’s Global...

Panopticon - A Libre Cross-Platform Disassembler

Panopticon is a cross platform disassembler for reverse engineering written in Rust. Panopticon has functions for disassembling, analysing decompiling and patching binaries for various platforms and instruction sets. Panopticon comes with GUI for browsing control flow graphs, displaying analysis...

Analyzing the Malware Analysts – Inside FireEye’s FLARE Team

At the Black Hat USA 2016 conference in Las Vegas last week, I was fortunate to sit down with Michael Sikorski, Director, FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE Team. During our conversation we discussed the origin of the FLARE team, what it takes to analyze malware, Michael’s book...

PLC Blaster Worm Targets Industrial Control PLCs

LAS VEGAS – Security researchers at Black Hat USA described a proof-of-concept worm that targets weaknesses within automated industrial control systems used to manage critical infrastructure and manufacturing. The worm, according to OpenSource Security, has the capability to autonomously search f...

Schneider Electric Unity PRO Control Flow Management Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Avihay Kain and Mille Gandelsman of Indegy have identified a vulnerability in Schneider Electric Unity PRO Software product. Schneider Electric has released a security notification with instructions to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED...

Researchers Go Inside a Business Email Compromise Scam

LAS VEGAS – Poor operational security on the part of Nigerian scammers running a Business Email Compromise BEC scheme has given researchers a window into their operations. Dell SecureWorks today published a report at Black Hat USA 2016 on what the criminals involved call wire-wire, or “waya-waya....

Siemens SINEMA Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Update A)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-16-215-02 Siemens SINEMA Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability that was published August 2, 2016, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 2 -------- Security researcher rgod working...

Ubuntu Based Penetration Testing Operating system: LionSec

Ubuntu Based Penetration Testing Operating system LionSec Linux 5.0 is a Ubuntu based penetration testing distribution . It was built in order to perform Computer Forensics , Penetration Tests , Wireless Analysis . With the “Anonymous Mode” , you can browse the internet or send packets anonymousl...

LionSec Linux 5.0 - Penetration Testing Operating system based on Ubuntu

LionSec Linux 5.0 is a Ubuntu based penetration testing distribution . It was built in order to perform Computer Forensics , Penetration Tests , Wireless Analysis . With the "Anonymous Mode" , you can browse the internet or send packets anonymously . There are lots of inbuilt tools like netool...

Nemucod dot dot..WSF

The latest Nemucod campaign shows the malware distributing a spam email attachment with a .wsf extension, specifically ..wsf with a double dot extension. It is a variation of what has been observed since last year 2015 – the TrojanDownloader:JS/Nemucod malware downloader using JScript. It still...

EFF Files Lawsuit Challenging DMCA's Restrictions Security Researchers

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Government over a provision within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that it says impinges on free speech and hobbles security researchers ability to do their job. The lawsuit asks the court to strike down the highly...