QakBot's Endgame: The Final Move Before the Takedown

QakBot's Endgame: The Final Move Before the Takedown By Daksh Kapur, Nico Paulo Yturriaga and Alfred Alvarado · September 06, 2023 Figure 1 Attribution at the bottom Qakbot, known under aliases like QBot, QuakBot, and Pinkslipbot, represents an intricately advanced malware strain that has...

5 Effective Web Design Strategies to Increase Your ROI

By Owais Sultan Return on investment ROI is one of the most important metrics in the business landscape, as it captures… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 Effective Web Design Strategies to Increase Your ROI...

Fixed locking period of 5 years doesn't allow the delegator to withdraw funds for atleast another 5 years

Lines of code Vulnerability details Details Let's first understand how the process of delegation, withdraw and increaseAmount works 1. Rule 1: To delegate to some user A, A.lock.end needs to be longer than msg.sender.lock.end and A.Lock.end block.timestampLock mustn't be expired...

GaugeController.sol isn't updated when voting power is delegated, enabling users to arbitrarily increase gauge weight

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact A malicious user can arbitrarily increase any gauge's weight, resulting in loss of rewards for lenders of other gauges. Proof of Concept Note that the below code snippet from GaugeController.voteforgaugeweights called by users to cast and change votes...

Voting can fail in early stage of voting in case of voter's voting power increase .

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Voting may fail in early stage of voting in case of voter's voting power increase . Proof of Concept In CoreVoting.sol , in terms of voting again the logic in vote function looks like this : // if a user has already voted, undo their previous vote. //...

Design/Logic Flaw

mx-chain-go is the official implementation of the MultiversX blockchain protocol, written in golang. When executing a relayed transaction, if the inner transaction failed, it would have increased the inner transaction's sender account nonce. This could have contributed to a limited DoS attack on ...

bad actore can increase gas usage in swapfrom function

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact bad actor can increase gas in swapfrom function because everytime calling swapfrom function it store new unit and everytime runs the loop for length of it Proof of Concept the swapfrom function includes function setReservesIERC20 memory tokens, uint256...

CVE-2023-1206

A hash collision flaw was found in the IPv6 connection lookup table in the Linux kernel’s IPv6 functionality when a user makes a new kind of SYN flood attack. A user located in the local network or with a high bandwidth connection can increase the CPU usage of the server that accepts IPV6...

Design/Logic Flaw

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396parser.rb and rfc3986parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of a...

SUSE-SU-2023:2655-1 Security update for nodejs16

This update for nodejs16 fixes the following issues: Update to version 16.20.1: - CVE-2023-30581: Fixed mainModule.proto Bypass Experimental Policy Mechanism bsc1212574. - CVE-2023-30585: Fixed privilege escalation via Malicious Registry Key manipulation during Node.js installer repair process...

M-03 Unmitigated

Lines of code Vulnerability details Description The problem identified by both wardens is the chance of using the initial signed recovery transaction to reinitialize the recovery procedure again after its cancellation, as long as this three transaction are done one after other. However the...

CVE-2022-46812

CVE-2022-46812 is a CSRF vulnerability in the VillaTheme Thank You Page Customizer for WooCommerce – Increase Your Sales plugin. Affected versions are those

CVE-2022-46810: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in VillaTheme Thank You Page Customizer for WooCommerce – Increase Your Sales plugin = 1.0.13 versions...

CVE-2023-28755

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component through 0.12.0 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects. The fixed versions are 0.12.1, 0.11.1, 0.10.2 and 0.10.0.1...

rubygem-time -- ReDoS vulnerability

oooooooq reports: The Time parser mishandles invalid strings that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects...

Smart Mobility has a Blindspot When it Comes to API Security

The emergence of smart mobility services and applications has led to a sharp increase in the use of APIs in the automotive industry. However, this increased reliance on APIs has also made them one of the most common attack vectors. According to Gartner, APIs account for 90% of the web application...

Breaking the Mold: Pen Testing Solutions That Challenge the Status Quo

Malicious actors are constantly adapting their tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs to adapt to political, technological, and regulatory changes quickly. A few emerging threats that organizations of all sizes should be aware of include the following: Increased use of Artificial Intelligence a...

Preparing for the Multicloud Future

Take advantage of multicloud flexibility to reduce risk, match spend to your current needs, and increase the pace of innovation...

DEV-1101 enables high-volume AiTM campaigns with open-source phishing kit

Adversary-in-the-middle AiTM phishing kits are part of an increasing trend that is observed supplanting many other less advanced forms of phishing. AiTM phishing is capable of circumventing multifactor authentication MFA through reverse-proxy functionality. DEV-1101 is an actor tracked by Microso...

Redemption fee increase can be thwarted

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The mechanism to increase the baseRate during redemptions is moot, up to gas fees. Therefore an arbitrageur can redeem more than what is healthy for the supply of LUSD. This weakens the price floor at $1, and may cause needless volatility. It further...