Exploit for Flash Zero Day Appears in Angler Exploit Kit

The dangerous Angler exploit kit has a new piece of ammunition to use in its attacks: a fresh Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability. The kit is exploiting the previously unknown vulnerability in several versions of Internet Explorer running on Windows 7 and Windows 8. French security researcher...

Morgan Stanley Insider Theft Wealth Management Client Data

The financial services giant Morgan Stanley announced yesterday that that an employee had stolen sensitive information pertaining to more than 900 of the firm’s wealth-management clients. According to a company press release, the wealth management employee in question “has been terminated.”...

Two 'Lizard Squad' Hackers Arrested After Christmas DDoS Attacks

A 22-year-old man linked to the notorious hacking group, Lizard Squad, that claimed responsibility for knocking Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live offline on Christmas Day was arrested by the United Kingdom police on Monday. Lizard Squad launched simultaneous Distributed...

Quantum Encryption Makes Credit Cards Fraud-Proof

Credit card frauds are very common these days – today a data breach occurs in retailer’s shop, online shopping site or banking site and at the next moment millions of cards appears in the underground black market – how simple is that for cyber criminals nowadays. But imagine if there is no possib...

Prices Rising at Illegal Underground Hacking Markets

Underground hacker markets are peddling complete kits to create new identities, elevating in-person fraud scams a tier closer to credit card theft and fraud. Researchers at Dell SecureWorks released an update to 2013 research on black hat markets, noticing a number of noteworthy trends beyond the...

Shellshock Worm Exploits Bash in QNAP NAS Devices

A worm exploiting network attached storage devices vulnerable to the Bash flaw is scanning the Internet for more victims. The worm opens a backdoor on QNAP devices, but to date it appears the attackers are using the exploit to run a click-fraud scam, in addition to maintaining persistence on owne...

Sql injection

SQL injection vulnerability in the login page login/login in Subex ROC Fraud Management aka Fraud Management System and FMS 7.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the rangerusername parameter...

CVE-2014-8728

SQL injection vulnerability in the login page login/login in Subex ROC Fraud Management aka Fraud Management System and FMS 7.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the rangerusername parameter...

CVE-2014-8728

SQL injection vulnerability in the login page login/login in Subex ROC Fraud Management aka Fraud Management System and FMS 7.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the rangerusername parameter...

CVE-2014-8728

Subex ROC Fraud Management (aka Fraud Management System/FMS) suffers an SQL injection in the login page (login/login) accessible on Subex ROC FMS 7.4 and earlier. The vulnerability stems from how the POST parameter ranger_user[name] is handled, enabling an attacker to submit arbitrary SQL command...

Home Depot Breach Cost Company $43 Million in Third Quarter

The massive Home Depot data breach disclosed earlier this fall involved the theft of 56 million credit and debit card numbers, and now the company has revealed that the incident so far has cost it $43 million. The costs are the result of both the investigation into the data breach as well as the...

US-CERT Alerts Users to Holiday Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

US-CERT reminds users to remain vigilant when browsing online this holiday season. E-cards from unknown senders may contain malicious links. Fake advertisements or shipping notifications may deliver infected attachments. Spoofed e-mail messages and fraudulent posts on social networking sites may...

Angler Exploit Kit Adds New Flash Exploit

Exploit kit authors are nothing if not opportunistic, and they know a prime opportunity when they see one. Adobe Flash bugs fit that description nicely, and the people behind the Angler exploit kit already are exploiting one of the Flash bugs patched last week in the kit’s arsenal. This is a comm...

Visa, MasterCard Remove Passwords from 3D Secure

Payment giants Visa and MasterCard announced plans to eliminate the need for password authentication in the companies’ respective “Verified by Visa” and “SecureCode” payment platforms which are designed to add an additional layer of security to online transactions. In a press release, MasterCard...

IC3 Releases “Tech Support” Themed Scam Alert

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center NW3C to combat Internet crime, has released a Scam Alert advising the public of an ongoing telephone scam in which callers purport to be an employee of...

Hackers Can Steal $999,999.99 from Visa Contactless Payment Cards

Security researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have found a way to steal larger amounts of money from people's pockets using just a mobile phone, due to a security glitch Visa’s contactless payment cards. Contactless payment cards use a cryptoprocessor and RFID technology to perform...

Staples Investigating Payment Data Card Breach

The office supply chain Staples Inc. is reportedly looking into a payment card breach, potentially making it the latest in a long line of retail establishments to suffer a compromise over the last year. “Staples is in the process of investigating a potential issue involving credit card data and h...

Obama Executive Order Forces Chip & Pin, EMV on Government

President Barack Obama last week signed an Executive Order that will force the federal government to adopt chip and PIN technology for government payment cards and to outfit retail point-of-sale terminals at federal facilities – like national parks and post offices – with the capacity to accept...

Hacking Smart Electricity Meters To Cut Power Bills

Smart devices are growing at an exponential pace with the increase in connecting devices embedded in cars, retail systems, refrigerators, televisions and countless other things people use in their everyday life, but security and privacy are the key issues for such applications, which still face...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID11845: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on October 5, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 35947 First Published: 2014 October 6 14:56 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID11845 may contain the following files: Name |...