IBM Financial Transaction Manager for High Value Payments for Multi-Platform SQL Injection Vulnerability

IBM Financial Transaction Manager for High Value Payments for Multi-Platform FTM HVP is a financial transaction manager for multi-platforms from IBM, USA. The product is primarily used to monitor, track and report on financial payments and transactions. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in IBM...

Security Bulletin: Financial Transaction Manager for High Value Payments is affected by a potential Cross-Site Scripting (Reflected) vulnerability (CVE-2020-4560)

Summary This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-4560 DESCRIPTION: IBM Financial Transaction Manager is...

Security Bulletin: Financial Transaction Manager for High Value Payments is affected by a potential SQL Injection CVE-2020-4328

Summary Financial Transaction Manager for High Value Payments FTM HVP for Multi-Platform has addressed the following vulnerability. SQL Injection on some of the screens. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-4328 DESCRIPTION: IBM Financial Transaction Manager is vulnerable to SQL injection. A...

Business Email Compromise (BEC) Criminal Ring

A criminal group called Cosmic Lynx seems to be based in Russia: Dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the group has carried out more than 200 BEC campaigns since July 2019, according to researchers from the email security firm Agari, particularly targeting senior executives at large organizations and corporations...

Spanish MSSP Targeted by BitPaymer Ransomware

ARCHIVED STORY Spanish MSSP Targeted by BitPaymer Ransomware By ATR Operational Intelligence Team · November 08, 2019 Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez Initial Discovery This week the news hit that several companies in Spain were hit by a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks themselves are not new...

Chrome for Android Enables Site Isolation Security Feature for All Sites with Login

After enabling 'Site Isolation' security feature in Chrome for desktops last year, Google has now finally introduced 'the extra line of defence' for Android smartphone users surfing the Internet over the Chrome web browser. In brief, Site Isolation is a security feature that adds an additional...

CISA Releases Four New Insights Products

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released four new CISA Insights products informed by U.S. intelligence and real-world events. Each of the following products provides a description of the threat, lessons learned, recommendations, and additional relevant resources:...

Warning! Unprivileged Linux Users With UID > INT_MAX Can Execute Any Command

Hold tight, this may blow your mind… A low-privileged user account on most Linux operating systems with UID value anything greater than 2147483647 can execute any systemctl command unauthorizedly—thanks to a newly discovered vulnerability. The reported vulnerability actually resides in PolicyKit...

CISO series: Secure your privileged administrative accounts with a phased roadmap

In my role, I often meet with CISOs and security architects who are updating their security strategy to meet the challenges of continuously evolving attacker techniques and cloud platforms. A frequent topic is prioritizing security for their highest value assets, both the assets that have the mos...

Valve: Malformed Skybox .TGA in Half-Life (GoldSRC) leads to Access Violation

A malformed .TGA when loaded as a Skybox on a map in a GoldSRC engine game Half-Life can lead to arbitrary code execution on a remote client. Reproduction Steps Load the attached map + resources on a local Half-Life listen server. The game will crash with an Access Violation as soon as the map wi...

Academics Devise New Way to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Computers

Stealing data from air-gapped computers is one of the great exercises in computer security: advanced attackers covet what’s stored on these isolated machines, while researchers try to figure out the novel ways adversaries could jump those gaps. The latest effort doesn’t involve USBs, heat,...

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system, which allows a malicious individual to increase their privileges

A local user can increase their privileges by passing a parameter vcpuid with a high value...

EFF Activists, Journalists Hit By Targeted Malware Attack

Phishing and malware attacks are among the more democratic and populist threats on the Internet. You don’t have to stand in the crowd in order to be targeted; the attackers will get to you sooner or later. But while most malware campaigns are aimed at the masses, attackers often save their best...

Out-of-Band IE Patch Released as More Sites Attacked

Internet Explorer users, exposed to a zero-day vulnerability in the browser and a faulty temporary Fix It from Microsoft, finally got some relief today when the company, as promised, released an out-of-band patch. Meanwhile, a handful of new telco, manufacturing and human rights sites have been...

Sophos Products - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Sophos Products - Multiple Vulnerabilities List, I've completed the second paper in my series analyzing Sophos Antivirus internals, titled "Practical Attacks against Sophos Antivirus". As the name suggests, this paper describes realistic attacks against networks using Sophos products. The paper...

New Fraud Ring 'Operation High Roller' Targets the Rich

A recent fraud ring through which attackers raided high-value bank accounts, nicknamed Operation High Roller .PDF, employed attacks that were quick, required no human interaction and have already affected several tiers of credit unions, regional banks and large global banks, over the last several...

NSS Labs offers Bounties for exploits

NSS Labs offers Bounties for exploits ExploitHub, which operates a penetration-testing site and is run by NSS Labs, announced a bug-bounty program for researchers to develop exploits for 12 high-value vulnerabilities in Microsoft and Adobe products. The company, which has set aside $4,400 in rewa...