Holiday Season Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

As the winter holidays are quickly approaching, US-CERT is republishing this entry to increase awareness. In the past, US-CERT has received reports of an increased number of phishing scams and malware campaigns that take advantage of the winter holiday and holiday shopping season. US-CERT reminds...

Social Engineering Ninja v0.3 - News release download

Now, the author has made an updated version available for us – Social Engineering Ninja version 0.3. "S-E Ninja is a Social Engineering tool, with 20-25 popular sites fake pages and anonymous mailer via mail function in PHP. It is a Phishing Web Application Written in PHP,XHTML,CSS,JS." This is t...

Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.0 - Latest Version Download

The Social Engineer Toolkit SET has been updated to version 1.0! We wrote about the Social Engineer's Toolkit in our old post here. This release is called the Devolution Release. "The Social Engineering Toolkit SET is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the hum...

Fraud Advisory for Businesses Released: Corporate Account Take Over

As part of a joint effort, the United States Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center FS-ISAC have released Fraud Advisory for Businesses: Corporate Account Take Over PDF. The...

Security Firms Scramble For SCADA Talent After Stuxnet

Three months after the world first learned of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, insiders say that there’s a scramble to find and hire engineers with knowledge of both security and the industrial control systems that were Stuxnet’s intended target. Anti virus companies admit their research teams wer...

Hackid

One of the more interesting trends is the way hacking culture is starting to trickle down from the technology cognoscenti to a far broader and equally receptive audience. Hackid is a great example of that. In its first year ever, Hackid is a conference specifically targeted at kids aged 5 to 17...

Zeus Variant Targets Mobile Online Banking Apps

Researchers have discovered a variant of the Zeus bot malware that specifically targets users who perform online-banking operations from the mobile phones, playing on the increasingly common use of SMS-based one-time passwords in order to dupe users into loading the malware. The attack begins wit...

Researchers: Google Aurora Attackers Back in Business?

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in your e-mail…Researchers say a new round of targeted attacks appear to come from the same group responsible for attacks against Google and other top U.S. firms. Writing on the Symantec Security blog...

Malicious Email Campaign Circulating

US-CERT is aware of public reports of malware spreading via email. These reports indicate that the malicious email messages contain the subject line "Here you have" or "Just For You" and contain a link to a seemingly legitimate PDF file. If users click on this link, they will be redirected to a...

Former Employees a Rich Target in Social Engineering Contest

The results of a hacking contest at the DEFCON conference shows that the largest U.S. corporations have a lot to learn. “If any of these targets had hired us to do a social engineering audit, we would have failed them,” an organizer said. HED:DEFCON tournament suggests ex-employees pose big risk...

Microsoft Publishes New FixIt Tool For DLL Bug

Microsoft has released some updated guidance on the recent DLL-hijacking bug, including a new FixIt tool that enables the workaround for the vulnerability that Microsoft shipped late last month. The new guidance includes a detailed explanation of the bug itself as well as how potential attacks...

Mod-X Cross Site Request Forgery / Cross Site Scripting

Got bored and decided to break the new website of the company I work for. Throughout I'll be dropping two new exploits that were chained to allow the changing of the administrative password of a default mod-x install. This is not a full review of mod-x, my main goal was just to break something, s...

Adobe PDF Escape EXE Social Engineering (No JavaScript)

$Id: adobepdfembeddedexenojs.rb 10126 2010-08-24 18:20:16Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use...

Location-Based Services Raise Privacy, Security Risks

The growing popularity of location-based services in the social networking world is a serious security and privacy risk that must be taken seriously. These services, which allow users to share their whereabouts with other people by disclosing their own location, is a very popular trend on social...

Adobe PDF Escape EXE Social Engineering (No JavaScript)

This module embeds a Metasploit payload into an existing PDF file in a non-standard method. The resulting PDF can be sent to a target as part of a social engineering attack. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Adobe Acrobat < 9.3.4 / 8.2.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB10-17)

The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote host is earlier than 9.3.4 / 8.2.4. Such versions are reportedly affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple vulnerabilities in the bundled Flash Player as noted in APSB10-16. CVE-2010-0209, CVE-2010-2188, CVE-2010-2213, CVE-2010-2214,...

Adobe Reader < 9.3.4 / 8.2.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB10-17)

The version of Adobe Reader installed on the remote host is earlier than 9.3.4 / 8.2.4. Such versions are reportedly affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple vulnerabilities in the bundled Flash Player as noted in APSB10-16. CVE-2010-0209, CVE-2010-2188, CVE-2010-2213, CVE-2010-2214,...

QQPlayer - .asx File Processing Buffer Overflow

QQPlayer - .asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Title: QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Li Qingshan of Information Security Engineering Center,School of Software and Microelectronics,Peking University Vendor: www.qq.com Platform: Windows XPSP3 Chinese Simplified Test:...

QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits ==================================================== QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit ==================================================== Title: QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Li Qingshan of...

QQPlayer Buffer Overflow

Title: QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Li Qingshan of Information Security Engineering Center,School of Software and Microelectronics,Peking University Vendor: www.qq.com Platform: Windows XPSP3 Chinese Simplified Test: QQPlayer 2.3.696.400 Vulnerable: QQPlayer '''...