IC3 Issues Internet Crime Report for 2016

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released its 2016 Internet Crime Report, describing the numbers and types of cyber crimes reported to IC3. Business Email Compromise BEC, ransomware attacks, tech support fraud, and extortion are all common schemes affecting people in the U.S. and aroun...

A week in security (Jun 12 – Jun 18)

Last week was very busy for the Labs, with a look at so-called numeric tech support scams, a visit to the huge Infosec Europe conference, an exploration of Mac Malware as a Service, and a walk through the myths of online bullying. Elsewhere: A huge click-farm is busted Jaff Ransomware is thwarted...

SigPloit - Telecom Signaling Exploitation Framework - SS7, GTP, Diameter & SIP

SiGploit a signaling security testing framework dedicated to Telecom Security professionals and reasearchers to pentest and exploit vulnerabilites in the signaling protocols used in mobile operators regardless of the geneartion being in use. SiGploit aims to cover all used protocols used in the...

Credit Card Breach at Buckle Stores

The Buckle Inc., a clothier that operates more than 450 stores in 44 U.S. states, disclosed Friday that its retail locations were hit by malicious software designed to steal customer credit card data. The disclosure came hours after KrebsOnSecurity contacted the company regarding reports from...

Abuse of Apple Search Ads Feature Leading to Fraud

Apple has removed one of its top 10 grossing productivity apps after an independent developer’s story about fraudsters’ abuse of the App Store’s Search Ads functionality went viral. Search Ads is a new feature available to iOS developers that allows them to invest in the promotion of their apps...

3 Nigerian Scammers Get 235-Years of Total Jail Sentence in U.S.

You may have heard of hilarious Nigerian scams. My all time favourite is this one: A Nigerian astronaut has been trapped in space for the past 25 years and needs $3 million to get back to Earth, Can you help? Moreover, Nigerians are also good at promising true love and happiness. But You know, Lo...

Private Eye Allegedly Used Leaky Goverment Tool in Bid to Find Tax Data on Trump

In March 2017, KrebsOnSecurity warned that thieves who perpetrate tax refund fraud with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service were leveraging a widely-used online student loan tool to find critical data on consumers that allows them to claim huge refunds with the IRS in someone else's name. This week...

WordPress adsense-click-fraud-monitoring phpwhois cross-site scripting vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed by the WordPress Software Foundation using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers. adsense-click-fraud-monitoring is one of the malicious click monitoring plugins. phpwhois is a package containing Whois libraries fo...

Fraudsters Exploited Lax Security at Equifax’s TALX Payroll Division

Identity thieves who specialize in tax refund fraud had big help this past tax year from Equifax, one of the nation's largest consumer data brokers and credit bureaus. The trouble stems from TALX, an Equifax subsidiary that provides online payroll, HR and tax services. Equifax says crooks were ab...

CVE-2015-3998

phpwhois version 4.2.5 used in the WordPress adsense-click-fraud-monitoring plugin version 1.7.5 is documented to have a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker can inject arbitrary script or HTML via the query parameter to whois.php. The linked reports confirm the affected componen...

Three Chinese Hackers Fined $9 Million for Stealing Trade Secrets

Hackers won't be spared. Three Chinese hackers have been ordered to pay $8.8 million £6.8 million after hacking email servers of two major New York-based law firms to steal corporate merger plans in December 2016 and used them to trade stocks. The U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan...

Dutch Police Seize Another Company that Sells PGP-Encrypted Blackberry Phones

The Dutch police arrested four suspects on Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and involvement in selling custom encrypted BlackBerry and Android smartphones to criminals. The Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit NHTCU, dedicated team within the Dutch National Police Agency aims to investigat...

Cisco CallManager Express Unauthorized Access Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20170503-cme1)

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

Cisco IOS Software Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Cisco IOS is the interconnected Internet operating system used on most Cisco Systems routers and network switches. A security vulnerability exists in Cisco IOS 15.53M Software in Cisco CallManager Express CME devices that stems from a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS 15.53M Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. The vulnerability is due to a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component of the affected software. An attacker...

CVE-2017-6624

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS 15.53M Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. The vulnerability is due to a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component of the affected software. An attacker...

CVE-2017-6624

CVE-2017-6624 affects Cisco IOS 15.5(3)M Software for Cisco CallManager Express (CME). The issue stems from a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to place unauthorized long-distance calls via an affected system. Connected...

CVE-2017-6624

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS 15.53M Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. The vulnerability is due to a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component of the affected software. An attacker...

Cisco CallManager Express Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS Software for Cisco CallManager Express CME could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to make unauthorized phone calls. The vulnerability is due to a configuration restriction in the toll-fraud protections component of the affected software. An attacker could...

Blind Trust in Email Could Cost You Your Home

The process of buying or selling a home can be extremely stressful and complex, but imagine the stress that would boil up if -- at settlement -- your money was wired to scammers in another country instead of to the settlement firm or escrow company. Here's the story about a phishing email that co...