That Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards

If you own a domain name that gets decent traffic and you fail to pay its annual renewal fee, chances are this mistake will be costly for you and for others. Lately, neglected domains have been getting scooped up by crooks who use them to set up fake e-commerce sites that steal credit card detail...

A week in security (November 5 – 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at browser lockers that fly under the radar with complete obfuscation, transport and logistics in our series about compromising vital infrastructure, Google logins now requiring JavaScript, how to create a sticky cybersecurity training program, and an...

CVE-2018-16150

Removed by vendor...

Browlock flies under the radar with complete obfuscation

Browlocks are the main driving force behind tech support scams, using a combination of malvertising and clever browser locker tricks to fool users. In fact, the effects can be so convincing that people call the rogue Microsoft support number for help because they believe their computer has been...

Persian Stalker pillages Iranian users of Instagram and Telegram

This blog post is authored by Danny Adamatis, Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres, Vitor Ventura and with the contributions of Eric Kuhla. Introduction State-sponsored actors have a number of different techniques at their disposal to remotely gain access to social media and secure messaging...

Scammers use old browser trick to create fake virus download

Tech support scammers are reusing an old technique in their existing browser locker browlock schemes to force a special kind of file download. Contrary to past attacks, where the purpose was to flood the machine with a large amount of file requests in order to crash the browser, this one is purel...

Detecting Fake Videos

This story nicely illustrates the arms race between technologies to create fake videos and technologies to detect fake videos: These fakes, while convincing if you watch a few seconds on a phone screen, aren't perfect yet. They contain tells, like creepily ever-open eyes, from flaws in their...

Compromising vital infrastructure: how voting machines and elections are vulnerable

In our first post in a series about vital infrastructure, we aim to explore how secure our voting machines—and our votes in general—are ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Here, we ask ourselves: How can our infrastructure be compromised? What are the consequences, and how can we prevent...

Apple Data Downloads, A Dating App for Trump Fans, and More Security News This Week

North Korean bitcoin theft, Fake FCC complaints, and more security news this week...

Fake browser update seeks to compromise more MikroTik routers

This blog post was authored by @hasherezade and Jérôme Segura. MikroTik, a Latvian company that makes routers and ISP wireless systems, has been dealing with several vulnerabilities affecting its products' operating system over the past few months. Ever since a critical flaw in RouterOS was...

Fake Adobe Flash Updates Hide Malicious Crypto Miners

While fake Flash updates that push malware have traditionally been easy to spot and avoid, a new campaign has employed new tricks that stealthily download cryptocurrency miners on Windows systems. To the average user, the newly discovered samples, which have been active as early as August, seem...

Innovative Phishing Tactic Makes Inroads Using Azure Blob

A fresh tactic for phishing Office 365 users employs credential-harvesting forms hosted on Azure Blob storage – signed with legitimate Microsoft SSL certificates to lend an air of legitimacy. Azure Blob Storage is a cloud storage solution for hosting unstructured data such as images, video or tex...

Xiongmai IP Cameras, NVRs and DVRs incl. 3rd party OEM devices lack encryption of sensitive data vulnerability

Hangzhou Xiongmai Information Technology Co., Ltd. specializes in security monitoring, video intelligence research and development. Xiongmai IP Cameras, NVRs and DVRs incl. 3rd party OEM devices suffer from a lack of encryption of sensitive data vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to...

Malicious Git HTTP Server For CVE-2018-17456

This module exploits CVE-2018-17456, which affects Git versions 2.14.5, 2.15.3, 2.16.5, 2.17.2, 2.18.1, and 2.19.1 and lower. When a submodule url which starts with a dash e.g "-u./payload" is passed as an argument to git clone, the file "payload" inside the repository is executed. This module...

Seeker v1.0.7 - Get Accurate Location using a Fake Website

Concept behind Seeker is simple, just like we host phishing pages to get credentials why not host a fake page that requests your loction just like many popular location based websites. Seeker Hosts a fake website on Apache Server and uses Ngrok , website asks for Location Permission and if the us...

100 channels and nothing on, except TV Licensing phishes

We’ve seen a lot of people referencing fake TV Licensing emails they’ve received over the last few days. The majority so far appear to be fake refund notices, asking potential victims to log in to a phony TV License website and provide payment details for refunds. It's definitely keeping customer...

A week in security (September 17 – 23)

Last week, we took a look at a low level spam campaign on Twitter, explored the signs of falling victim to phishing, and examined a massive WordPress compromise. We also explained some SASL vulnerabilities and covered a breaking Emotet spam campaign. Other cybersecurity news: NewEgg attacked by...

RubyGems: DNS SRV lookup of file:// sources enables local hijacking of gems

Summary gem makes a DNS SRV query for each of its configured sources; the response is allowed to override the source URL in certain ways. The SRV query happens not only for http:// and https:// sources, but also for s3:// and file://. In the case of file://, the SRV response may add a prefix to t...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Creme CRM 1.6.12. The value of the cancel button uses the content of the HTTP Referer header, and could be used to trick a user into visiting a fake login page in order to steal credentials...

CVE-2018-14398

An issue was discovered in Creme CRM 1.6.12. The value of the cancel button uses the content of the HTTP Referer header, and could be used to trick a user into visiting a fake login page in order to steal credentials...