FTC Releases Alert on Tech-Support Scams

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on technical-support scams. In these schemes, deceptive tech-support operations offer to fix problems that don't exist, placing calls or sending pop-ups to make people think their computers are infected with viruses. Users should not give...

Barclays Bank customers targeted by phishers

Today we have a phish targeting customers of Barclays Bank, located at: bankdotbarclaydotcodotukdotolbdotauthdotloginlinkdotactiondotp1242557947640dotchofcgdotcom/bd/ The phish opens up with an initial lunge for personal details: The first page asks for a surname, then offers the potential victim...

IBM RCLM and RELM Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management RCLM provides requirements management, quality management, change and configuration management, and project planning and tracking.IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager RELM visualizes, analyzes, and organize engineering lifecycle data and data...

Player 1 Limps Back Into the Ring - Hello again, Locky!

This post was authored by Alex Chiu, Warren Mercer, and Jaeson Schultz. Sean Baird and Matthew Molyett contributed to this post.Back in May, the Necurs spam botnet jettisoned Locky ransomware in favor of the new Jaff ransomware variant. However, earlier this month Kaspersky discovered a...

Tales from the MSRC: from pixels to POC

Is this thing still on? It’s been a while since we’ve posted to this blog and we think it’s time to start posting deep technical content about Security Research & Defense SRD again. For readers who are new or may have forgotten, this blog is the home of the MSRC Vulnerabilities & Mitigations...

Tales from the MSRC: from pixels to POC

Is this thing still on? It’s been a while since we’ve posted to this blog and we think it’s time to start posting deep technical content about Security Research & Defense SRD again. For readers who are new or may have forgotten, this blog is the home of the MSRC Vulnerabilities & Mitigations...

FIN10 Extorting Canadian Mining Companies, Casinos

Cybercriminals targeting casinos and mining firms in North America have extorted as much as $620,000 per theft during a four-year run in which they threaten victims with the destruction or public release of stolen data. Between 2013 and 2016, mostly Canadian firms were hit with nearly a dozen...

CVE-2017-6666

A vulnerability in the forwarding component of Cisco IOS XR Software for Cisco Network Convergence System NCS 5500 Series Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause the router to stop forwarding data traffic across Traffic Engineering TE tunnels, resulting in a denial of servic...

Trihedral Engineering Limited VTScada

CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Trihedral Engineering Limited Equipment: VTScada Vulnerability: Resource Consumption, Cross-Site Scripting, Information Exposure AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of VTScada, an HMI SCADA software, are affected...

Microsoft Office Malicious Macros

Microsoft Office files might contain a malicious downloader. A remote attacker could send spam e-mails including those downloaders, and use social engineering in order to convince users to manually enable them. This would allow the malicious code to run and infect the target system...

Flying Under the Radar: How Hackers Use Protection Strategies for Attack

It's a recurring theme in sports movies, war stories and crime stories alike: In order to defeat the enemy, one must think like the enemy. This approach has been taken - oftentimes quite successfully - in an array of settings, including the cybersecurity realm. Security researchers are constantly...

A week in security (Jun 05 – Jun 11)

Last week, we interviewed our very own Pieter Arntz to get to know him a little better. We also touched on the importance of HTTPS and focused on a new social engineering scheme that triggers on mouse movement. We also took a deeper look at LatentBot, a Trojan that is being distributed by the RIG...

Cisco Network Convergence System 5500 Series Routers Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the forwarding component of Cisco IOS XR Software for Cisco Network Convergence System NCS 5500 Series Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause the router to stop forwarding data traffic across Traffic Engineering TE tunnels, resulting in a denial of servic...

Beware! This Microsoft PowerPoint Hack Installs Malware Without Requiring Macros

"Disable macros and always be extra careful when you manually enable it while opening Microsoft Office Word documents." You might have heard of above-mentioned security warning multiple times on the Internet as hackers usually leverage this decade old macros-based hacking technique to hack...

Reverse Engineering Framework: radare2

Reverse Engineering Framework: radare2 r2 is a rewrite from scratch of radare in order to provide a set of libraries and tools to work with binary files Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable command-line hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzin...

FBI Releases Article on Protecting Business Email Systems

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on Building a Digital Defense with an Email Fortress. FBI warns that scammers commonly target business email accounts with phishing and social engineering schemes. Strategies for preventing email compromises include avoiding the use ...

Cuvva: Your two domain login email address are disclosed in

HI LINK: support-dashboard.corp.cuvva.co while accessing this link it takes to google authentication. then seen source page of that login page then i saw your email that used to login. POC attached. emails are: ███ ██████████ another way is to simply click on to "continue to cuvva.co" you will se...

Schneider Electric SoMachine HVAC

CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: SoMachine HVAC Vulnerabilities: Buffer Overflow, DLL Hijack AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following version of SoMachine HVAC, a PLC programming software, is affected: SoMachine HVAC Versions 2.1.0 and prior. IMPACT...

Schneider Electric VAMPSET

CVSS v3 5.6 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: VAMPSET Vulnerability: Memory Corruption AFFECTED PRODUCTS Schneider Electric reports that the vulnerability affects the following VAMPSET setting and configuration software products: VAMPSET, versions prior ...

FTC Releases Alert on Fraudulent Emails

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert about scammers sending out fake emails that look authentic to trick you into sending money to them. Users should be suspicious of unsolicited phone calls or email messages from individuals asking about your information. If an unknown individu...