A week in security (January 17 – 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: CISA calls for urgent action against critical threats Red Cross begs attackers to “Do the right thing” after family reunion service compromised Update now! Chrome patches critical RCE vulnerability in Safe Browsing Combatting SMS and phone fraud: UK government issu...

A week in security (January 17 — 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: CISA calls for urgent action against critical threats Red Cross begs attackers to “Do the right thing” after family reunion service compromised Update now! Chrome patches critical RCE vulnerability in Safe Browsing Combatting SMS and phone fraud: UK government issu...

Steer clear of gift card balance scams

Rogue ads are a problem-causing menace which can strike in many ways. Malvertising often uses a combination of exploits to drop malware. Phishing campaigns get the job done with social engineering and bogus websites. This particular incident is an example of the latter, and a good reminder to be...

New Twists on Gift-Card Scams Flourish on Black Friday

Black Friday cyber-pariahs have revamped gift-card scams to better target modern online shoppers hungry for deals post-Thanksgiving. Experts warn new tactics include bogus gift-card generators that install malware designed to sniff out a victim’s cryptocurrency wallet address. Internet-based Blac...

Please don’t buy this! 3 gift card scams to watch out for this holiday season

With the holiday season around the corner, we thought it was a good time to look at the dangers that come with gift cards. Gift cards can be an easy win in cases where you don’t know the receiver well enough to decide on a fitting gift, or when their wishes are out of your price range. But there...

Waimai Super Cms 处理逻辑错误漏洞

Waimai Super Cms is a takeout ordering system. A processing logic error vulnerability exists in Waimai Super Cms that stems from an improper implementation of the processing logic for the product index.php?m=gift&a=addsave link. The vulnerability can be exploited to modify the data captured in a...

Brute-Force Attacks Target Inboxes for Gift Card Data

Threat actors are compromising up to 100,000 inboxes daily in a campaign that targets gift card and customer-loyalty program data in hopes of reselling it or cashing in on freebies, a security researcher has found. The actors behind the scam—outlined in a post by Brian Krebs on Krebs on...

Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

Some of the most successful and lucrative online scams employ a "low-and-slow" approach -- avoiding detection or interference from researchers and law enforcement agencies by stealing small bits of cash from many people over an extended period. Heres the story of a cybercrime group that compromis...

BEC Scammers Seek Native English Speakers on Underground

Looking for work? Speak fluent English? Capable of convincingly portraying a professional – as in, somebody a highly ranked corporate leader would talk to? If you lack scruples and disregard those pesky things called “laws,” it could be your lucky day: Cybercrooks are putting up help-wanted ads,...

CVE-2021-36012 Magento Commerce Gift Card Business Logic Error

Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 and earlier, 2.4.2-p1 and earlier and 2.3.7 and earlier are affected by a business logic error in the placeOrder graphql mutation. An authenticated attacker can leverage this vulnerability to altar the price of an item...

CVE-2021-36130

An XSS issue was discovered in the SocialProfile extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. Within several gift-related special pages, a privileged user with the awardmanage right could inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript within various gift-related data fields. The attack could easily propagate acros...

CVE-2021-36130

An XSS issue was discovered in the SocialProfile extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. Within several gift-related special pages, a privileged user with the awardmanage right could inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript within various gift-related data fields. The attack could easily propagate acros...

Cross site scripting

An XSS issue was discovered in the SocialProfile extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. Within several gift-related special pages, a privileged user with the awardmanage right could inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript within various gift-related data fields. The attack could easily propagate acros...

CVE-2021-36130

An XSS issue was discovered in the SocialProfile extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. Within several gift-related special pages, a privileged user with the awardmanage right could inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript within various gift-related data fields. The attack could easily propagate acros...

A week in security (June 21 – June 27)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Want to stop ransomware attacks? Send the cybercriminals to jail, says Brian Honan: Lock and Code S02E11 Atomic research institute breached via VPN vulnerability Hotel staff bust Hermes SMS scammer with suspiciously large number of cables City of Liège hit by...

Threat Source newsletter (June 24, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. Even though spam emails asking for gift cards may seem like the oldest trick in the book, they're still effective in 2021. The FBI estimates that business email compromise cost victims around $1.8 billion in 2020,... This is only t...

BEC Losses Top $1.8B as Tactics Evolve

Business email compromise BEC attacks ramped up significantly in 2020, with more than $1.8 billion stolen from organizations with these types of attacks last year alone — and things are getting worse. BEC attacks are carried out by cybercriminals either impersonating someone inside an organizatio...

WordPress Ultimate Gift Cards For WooCommerce plugin <= 2.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered by Jerome Bruandet NinTechNet in WordPress Ultimate Gift Cards For WooCommerce plugin versions = 2.1.1. Solution Update the WordPress Ultimate Gift Cards For WooCommerce plugin to the latest available version at least 2.1.2...

PT-2021-21127 · Mediawiki +1 · Mediawiki +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: MediaWiki versions through 1.36 SocialProfile extension in MediaWiki versions through 1.36 Description: An XSS issue was discovered in the SocialProfile extension within MediaWiki. A privileged user with the awardmanage right could inject...

Business email compromise campaign targets wide range of orgs with gift card scam

Cybercriminals continue to target businesses to trick recipients into approving payments, transferring funds, or, in this case, purchasing gift cards. This kind of email attack is called business email compromise BEC—a damaging form of phishing designed to gain access to critical business...