Israeli Think-Tank Site Serves Sweet Orange Exploit

Attackers have compromised the website of a prominent Israel-based, Middle East foreign policy-focused think tank, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs JCPA. On Friday, researchers from Cyphort reported that the site was serving the Sweet Orange exploit kit via drive-by download. At the time o...

Malware Can Bypass Chrome Extension Security Feature Easily

Researchers have uncovered a new social engineering trick that leads users to a malicious extension from Google Chrome impersonating to deliver Adobe’s Flash Player in order to lure victims in a click fraud campaign. Security experts at TrendMicro believe that the malware is triggered by opening...

Neverquest Trojan Adds New Targets, Capabilities

Researchers have found some recent modifications to the Neverquest banking Trojan that indicate the malware is no longer just targeting online banking sites, but also is going after social media, retailers and some game portals. The new changes also give the Trojan the ability to insert extra...

Subex ROC Fraud Management System 7.4 SQL Injection Vulnerability

Subex ROC Fraud Management System version 7.4 suffers from a remote unauthenticated time-based blind SQL injection vulnerability. ======================================================================================= Subex ROC Fraud Management System v7.4 - Unauthenticated Blind-Time Based SQL...

Home Depot Urges Credit Monitoring Vigilance

Home Depot told its customers today to monitor their bank and credit card accounts for fraud as it continues to investigate the “unusual activity” on its networks that could turn out to be one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. history. “We’re looking into some unusual activity that might...

Subex ROC Fraud Management System 7.4 SQL Injection

======================================================================================= Subex ROC Fraud Management System v7.4 - Unauthenticated Blind-Time Based SQL Injection ======================================================================================= Affected Software: Subex ROC FMS...

Malicious Advertisements Found on Java.com, Other High-Profile Sites

A New York-based online ad network company AppNexus, that provides a platform specializing in real-time online advertising, has again been spotted as the origin of a recent "malvertising" campaign that makes use of the Angler Exploit Kit to redirect visitors to malicious websites hosting the Aspr...

Verizon to Bolster Authentication with QR Codes

If you want to know what the future holds for authentication on the web, it all depends whom you ask. Some say it’ll come in the form of biometrics – iris and fingerprint scans, etc. Others say the answer lies in a tangle of constantly changing two-factor verification codes users need to punch in...

Java.com, TMZ Serving Malvertising Redirects to Angler Kit

Online ad network AppNexus has again been identified at the core of another malvertising campaign using the Angler Exploit Kit to redirect visitors to sites hosting the Asprox malware. Busy, popular websites including TMZ, Photobucket and Java.com in recent days have been serving malicious...

South Korean Data Breach Compromises 27 Million

A data breach in South Korea appears to have impacted as many as 27 million citizens, roughly 70 percent of the nation’s population. Authorities with the South Jeolla Provincial Police Agency announced late last week that it had apprehended a 24-year-old, known simply as Kim, in addition to 15...

Innovaphone PBX Admin-GUI - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Title: Innovaphone PBX Admin-GUI CSRF Impact: High CVSS2 Score: 7.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:C/E:F/RL:U/RC:C Announced: August 21, 2014 Reporter: Rainer Giedat NSIDE ATTACK LOGIC GmbH, www.nsideattacklogic.de Products: Innovaphone PBX Administration GUI Affected Versions: all known versions teste...

Cridex Malware Takes Lesson From GameOver Zeus

The GameOver Zeus malware had a nice run for itself, making untold millions of dollars for its creators. But it was a run that ended with a multi-continent operation from law enforcement and security researchers to disassemble the infrastructure. Now researchers have identified a new variant of t...

Square Launches Bug Bounty, Hires Top Security Researcher

The bug bounty phenomenon began mainly with major software vendors and security companies, which were the main targets for security researchers and attackers. But it is now moving to virtually every corner of the Web and software ecosystem, and the latest company to join the party is Square, the...

Expert Warns of Chip-and-PIN Pitfalls

LAS VEGAS – The inevitable changeover from magnetic strip-based payment cards to EMV, or chip-and-PIN, is coming for consumers and merchants in the United States. And coming along with it are a raft of weaknesses and real-world attacks that shoot holes in the presumption that EMV will remedy cred...

Legal Line Between Security Research, Cybercrime Murky

LAS VEGAS — In his keynote address at Black Hat Wednesday, Dan Geer, the CISO of In-Q-Tel and a respected security luminary noted that the industry has never been closer to the forefront of corporate and government policy decision making. Despite this, security research remains a dangerous busine...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID10975: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 6, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 35187 First Published: 2014 August 6 20:28 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 RuleID10975 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Call Center Phone Fraud for Fun at Profit at Black Hat

Reconnaissance in the context of targeted attacks usually involves scouring freely available online resources such as social media and developer forums. Personal information willfully posted to these sites are clues a hacker can use to build a profile on a target, map systems and network...

POWELIKS — A Persistent Windows Malware Without Any Installer File

Malware is nothing but a malicious files which is stored on an infected computer system in order to damage the system or steal sensitive data from it or perform other malicious activities. But security researchers have uncovered a new and sophisticated piece of malware that infects systems and...

PayPal payment defects caused by the lied to pay the amount of vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, white hat Jan Kechel found PayPal there lied to pay the amount of the vulnerability and proof of this may be and is utilized to carry out the fraud. Jan Kechel given in the Demo:the http://lvps91-250-100-5.dedicated.hosteurope.de:43926/ The author on the page gives detailed steps and...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID10802: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on July 25, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 35048 First Published: 2014 July 25 14:20 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 RuleID10802 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...