Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months -- including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools, businesses and government buildings late last year -- were made possible thanks to an authentication...

A week in security (January 14 – 20)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at how the government shutdown is influencing cybersecurity jobs, Advanced Persistent Threats group APT10, the comeback of Fallout EK, the hosting of malicious sites on legitimate servers, and the Collection 1 data breach. Other cybersecurit...

Hosting malicious sites on legitimate servers: How do threat actors get away with it?

How do threat actors manage to get their sites and files hosted on legitimate providers’ servers? I have asked myself this question many times, and many times thought, “The threat actors pay for it, and for some companies, money is all that matters.” But is it really that simple? I decided to fin...

5 Popular Web Hosting Services Found Vulnerable to Multiple Flaws

A security researcher has discovered multiple one-click client-side vulnerabilities in the some of the world's most popular and widely-used web hosting companies that could have put millions of their customers as well as billions of their sites' visitors at risk of hacking. Independent researcher...

5 Popular Web Hosting Services Found Vulnerable to Multiple Flaws

A security researcher has discovered multiple one-click client-side vulnerabilities in the some of the world's most popular and widely-used web hosting companies that could have put millions of their customers as well as billions of their sites' visitors at risk of hacking. Independent researcher...

ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability (January 2019)

A denial of service DoS vulnerability exists in ASP.NET Core Hosting Bundle module AspNetCoreModule ANCM due to improper handling of web requests. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, via specially crafted requests, to cause the hosted application to stop responding.. C...

CF Image Hosting Script 1.6.5 Privilege Escalation

!/usr/bin/env python """ Exploit Title: CF Image Hosting Script 1.6.5: Delete database Google Dork: "Powered By CF Image Hosting script" Date: 01/08/2019 Exploit Author: David Tavarez Vendor Homepage: https://davidtavarez.github.io/ Software Link:...

CF Image Hosting Script 1.6.5 - (Delete all Pictures) Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for php platform in category web applications !/usr/bin/env python """ Exploit Title: CF Image Hosting Script 1.6.5: Delete database Google Dork: "Powered By CF Image Hosting script" Date: 01/08/2019 Exploit Author: David Tavarez Vendor Homepage: https://davidtavarez.github.io/ Software...

Cloud Hosting Provider DataResolution.net Battling Christmas Eve Ransomware Attack

Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net is struggling to bring its systems back online after suffering a ransomware infestation on Christmas Eve, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company says its systems were hit by the Ryuk ransomware, the same malware strain that crippled printing and deliver...

Authorities seize 15 popular DDoS-for-hire websites

By Waqas Authorities have seized and shut down 15 popular DDoS-for-hire websites used by cybercriminals for revenge and DDoS distributed denial of service attacks on private individuals as well as businesses including online gaming giants, email service providers and hosting sites. The operation...

Bitcoin Bomb Scare Associated with Sextortion Scammers

This blog was written by Jaeson Schultz. Organizations across the country are on edge today after a flurry of phony bomb threats hit several public entities Thursday, such as universities, schools and news outlets, among others. The attackers distributed malicious emails claiming to have placed...

WebDAV Server Serving DLL

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Serve DLL via webdav server', 'Description' = %q This module simplifies the rundll32.exe Application Whitelisting Bypass technique. The module...

phpMyAdmin Releases Critical Software Update — Patch Your Sites Now!

Developers of phpMyAdmin, one of the most popular and widely used MySQL database management systems, today released an updated version 4.8.4 of its software to patch several important vulnerabilities that could eventually allow remote attackers to take control of the affected web servers. The...

CVE-2018-1671

IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.3 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site. IBM X-force ID: 144951...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: Several security bugs have been fixed in this release: Segfault when using convert.quoted-printable-encode filter. Null pointer dereference i...

[slackware-security] mozilla-nss

New mozilla-nss packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-nss-3.40.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to nss-3.40.1 and nspr-4.20. Mitigate cache side-channel...

6500 sites down after hackers wipe out database of dark web hosting firm

By Waqas Daniel's Hosting, one of the largest hosting service providers on Dark Web has come under a massive cyber attack forcing its website along with over 6,500 websites hosted on its server to go offline but the damage is way more than that. The hosting administrator, a German software...

[slackware-security] libssh

New libssh packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libssh-0.7.6-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed authentication bypass vulnerability. For more information, see:...

11 million personal unprotected MongoDB records leaked online

By Uzair Amir Another day, another trove of sensitive data exposed online. This time, a MongoDB database containing a whopping 43.5GB of the dataset used in marketing campaigns has been left exposed for public access. The data was discovered by Bob Diachenko, an independent security researcher wh...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.157/: Upgraded. This kernel removes the unnecessary vmacacheflushall code which could have led to a use-after-free situation and...