Of hoodies and headphones: a spotlight on risks surrounding audio output devices

More than a decade ago, cardiologists from the Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston presented their findings at the American Heart Association AHA Scientific Sessions 2008 about MP3 headphones causing disruptions with heart devices—such as the pacemaker and the implantable cardioverter...

Design/Logic Flaw

OpenKM 6.3.2 through 6.3.7 allows an attacker to upload a malicious JSP file into the /okm:root directories and move that file to the home directory of the site, via frontend/FileUpload and admin/repositoryexport.jsp. This is achieved by interfering with the Filesystem path control in the admin's...

CVE-2019-10905

Parsedown before 1.7.2, when safe mode is used and HTML markup is disabled, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code if a script already running on the affected page executes the contents of any element with a specific class. This occurs because spaces are permitted in code bloc...

CVE-2018-18495

WebExtension content scripts can be loaded into about: pages in some circumstances, in violation of the permissions granted to extensions. This could allow an extension to interfere with the loading and usage of these pages and use capabilities that were intended to be restricted from extensions...

Spoofing

WebExtension content scripts can be loaded into about: pages in some circumstances, in violation of the permissions granted to extensions. This could allow an extension to interfere with the loading and usage of these pages and use capabilities that were intended to be restricted from extensions...

CVE-2018-18495

WebExtension content scripts can be loaded into about: pages in some circumstances, in violation of the permissions granted to extensions. This could allow an extension to interfere with the loading and usage of these pages and use capabilities that were intended to be restricted from extensions...

CVE-2018-18495

WebExtension content scripts can be loaded into about: pages in some circumstances, in violation of the permissions granted to extensions. This could allow an extension to interfere with the loading and usage of these pages and use capabilities that were intended to be restricted from extensions...

Microsoft: Russia's Fancy Bear Working to Influence EU Elections

As the May elections for European Parliament loom, Russia-linked APT groups are amping up their efforts to target journalists, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations and other members of civil society, according to Microsoft. The tech giant said on Tuesday that it has observed a recent serie...

Scan Interference

Scan interference is best defined as when traffic from our scanners gets blocked, filtered, dropped, or modified in response to some sort of active protection system not recognizing our traffic. Once our scanners are flagged as an intruder, the clients environment is no longer accessible, which...

Ukrainian Police Arrest 6 Hackers Linked to DDoS and Financial Attacks

Ukrainian Police have this week busted out two separate groups of hackers involved in carrying out DDoS attacks against news agencies and stealing money from Ukrainian citizens, respectively. According to the authorities, the four suspected hackers they arrested last week, all aged from 26 to 30...

A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations

The investigation into Russian interference and Donald Trump has sprung so many offshoots, it's hard to keep track. Here's a comprehensive list. It's long...

Nation-State Phishing: A Country-Sized Catch

Thanks to the traditional role of phishing in widespread email scams, there is a general tendency to equate it with clearly fraudulent and obnoxiously implausible emails. While this misperception has not evolved, phishing campaigns have. Andrea Little Limbago Once a threat that went hand-in-hand...

A week in security (October 15 – 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we went over how to build your own motion-activated security camera, wondered whether FIDO is the future instrument to replace passwords and usernames, informed you about information operations on Twitter, and released our Q3 Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics an...

Don't Buy the Trump Administration's China Misdirection

The White House keeps accusing China of election interference—but it's nothing like Russia in 2016...

Input validation

A vulnerability in the user management functionality of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform a denial of service DoS attack against an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-provided input...

CVE-2018-0462 Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the user management functionality of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform a denial of service DoS attack against an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-provided input...

Trump's New Executive Order Slaps a Bandaid on Election Interference Problems

Trump’s order creates a framework to sanction foreign meddling in elections, but experts say it’s not enough...

How to Watch Twitter and Facebook Testify Before Congress Wednesday

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will field questions about foreign interference, perceived bias, and more...

Apache Kafka Security Bypass Vulnerability

Apache Kafka is an open source distributed streaming platform developed by the Apache Apache Software Foundation in the United States. The platform is capable of acquiring real-time data for building applications that react in real time to changes in the data stream. A security bypass vulnerabili...

12 Russian Intelligence Agents Indicted For Hacking DNC Emails

The US Justice Department has announced criminal indictments against 12 Russian intelligence officers tied to the hack of the Democratic National Committee DNC during the 2016 US presidential election campaign. The charges were drawn up as part of the investigation of Russian interference in the...