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...

Google Android Qualcomm WLAN Over-the-Border Access Vulnerability

Android on Google Pixel and Nexus is a Linux-based open source operating system for the Google Pixel and Nexus smartphones developed by Google Inc. and the Open Handset Alliance OHA, with Qualcomm WLAN being one of the components used. Qualcomm WLAN is a wireless LAN component developed by Qualco...

CVE-2017-7781

An error occurs in the elliptic curve point addition algorithm that uses mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates where it can yield a result "POINTATINFINITY" when it should not. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this to interfere with a connection, resulting in an attacked party computing an...

Code injection

An error occurs in the elliptic curve point addition algorithm that uses mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates where it can yield a result "POINTATINFINITY" when it should not. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this to interfere with a connection, resulting in an attacked party computing an...

Design/Logic Flaw

In SimpliSafe Original, RF Interference e.g., an extremely strong 433.92 MHz signal by a physically proximate attacker does not cause a notification...

CVE-2018-11401

In SimpliSafe Original, RF Interference e.g., an extremely strong 433.92 MHz signal by a physically proximate attacker does not cause a notification...

CVE-2018-11401

In SimpliSafe Original, RF Interference e.g., an extremely strong 433.92 MHz signal by a physically proximate attacker does not cause a notification...

CVE-2018-11401

CVE-2018-11401 concerns SimpliSafe Original. The issue, described in the NVD entry, is that RF interference from a physically proximate attacker (e.g., a strong 433.92 MHz signal) does not trigger a notification. The CVSSv3.0 vector (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) yields a base score of 4.6...

Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-10982)

Microsoft Windows is a set of operating systems developed by Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. Windows uses a graphical mode GUI. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way the Microsoft Windows Kernel API executes privileges. An attacker could use this vulnerability to emulate a...

Perspectives on Russian hacking

Russia is an endlessly fascinating subject both in and around infosec. Recent years have shifted attention away from pure malware capabilities, to psyops, social engineering, and an endless slew of mind games designed to destabilize and keep nations ever-so-slightly off balance. Security firms in...

PCI DSS Compliance : Scan Interference

Interference from either the network or the host did not allow the scan to fulfill the PCI DSS scan validation requirements. This report is insufficient to certify this server. There may be a firewall, IDS or other software blocking Nessus from scanning. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

January 17, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Australian Open” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 17, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Confidence in legacy...