Banking.BR Android Trojan Emerges in Credential-Stealing Attacks

A recently uncovered banking trojan aims to steal Android victims’ online banking credentials and take over their bank accounts, using “elaborate” overlay attack capabilities. The malware, dubbed “Banker.BR” by researchers with IBM X-Force, was spotted in messages targeting users in countries tha...

Wawa Breach: Hackers Put 30 Million Stolen Payment Card Details for Sale

Remember the recent payment card breach at Wawa convenience stores? If you're among those millions of customers who shopped at any of 850 Wawa stores last year but haven't yet hotlisted your cards, it's high time to take immediate action. That's because hackers have finally put up payment card...

Akamai and Exceda - Maximizing Customer and Partner Value in Latin America Together

Today, Akamai announced an agreement to acquire Exceda, our largest channel partner in Latin America. I want to share what this acquisition means for our customers and partners, and why I am so excited about the potential that this represents for us all. Initially becoming a channel partner in...

French Police Remotely Removed RETADUP Malware from 850,000 Infected PCs

The French law enforcement agency, National Gendarmerie, today announced the successful takedown of one of the largest wide-spread RETADUP botnet malware and how it remotely disinfected more than 850,000 computers worldwide with the help of researchers. Earlier this year, security researchers at...

Ke3chang APT Linked to Previously Undocumented Backdoor

The Ke3chang cyberespionage group, a.k.a. APT15, Mirage, Playful Dragon or Vixen Panda, has been tied to a backdoor called Okrum that has been used to target diplomatic missions throughout Europe and Latin America. The attribution widens the scope of known Ke3chang activity, an APT believed to be...

CVE-2019-10044

Telegram Desktop before 1.5.12 on Windows, and the Telegram applications for Android, iOS, and Linux, is vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if for example Latin and Cyrillic characters...

CVE-2019-9970

Open Whisper Signal aka Signal-Desktop through 1.23.1 and the Signal Private Messenger application through 4.35.3 for Android are vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if for example Latin...

RSA Conference 2019: Emotet Takes Aim at Latin America

SAN FRANCISCO – Remote access trojans RATs can be a scourge for corporate systems, giving backdoor access to cybercriminals that are looking to carry out espionage activities, do recon for future phishing efforts, or lift data to sell on the underground. They often serve as a key pivot point to...

[slackware-security] infozip

New infozip 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: patches/packages/infozip-6.0-i586-4slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Added some patches that should fix extracting archives with non-latin characte...

Defending critical infrastructure is imperative

The Cybersecurity Tech Accord’s upcoming webinar and the importance of public-private partnership Today, cyberattacks from increasingly sophisticated actors threaten organizations across every sector, and whether a Fortune 500 company or a local bakery, organizations of all sizes need to take ste...

The world’s southernmost security conference

When asked about his best race, Ayrton Senna replied that it was when he raced karting cars. For him it was the best because it was only for the sake of sports and free from commercial sponsoring and commercial interests. I have this same feeling about computer security conferences, because they...

This Week in Security News: Deep Dives and NASA Data

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the span of a NASA hack that leaked data for current and former employees. Also, Trend Micro dives deep into the underground...

CVE-2018-4277: a“pie”triggered spoofing-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Researchers looking for the browser front-end security issues found in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and other browsers there is a security vulnerability. This article describes Apple products Alphabet d-shaped problems caused by domain spoofing problem. U+A771 The researchers found that Apple products...

CVE-2017-7833

Some Arabic and Indic vowel marker characters can be combined with Latin characters in a domain name to eclipse the non-Latin character with some font sets on the addressbar. The non-Latin character will not be visible to most viewers. This allows for domain spoofing attacks because these combine...

Latin American ‘Biñeros’ Bond Over Fraudulent Purchase Scheme

A type of card-not-present fraud is spreading throughout the Latin American underground, uniting groups of malefactors in a communal effort to perpetrate it as widely and as often as possible. Cybercriminals in the region are making use of problems in the validation process for bank identificatio...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast for May 18

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss the week’s information security news, including some interesting new malware, a Linux patch that made waves, social engineering gambits and a major banking theft from the second-largest economy in Latin America...

the-latin-lounge.southport.towntalk.co.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-577176 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| the-latin-lounge.southport.towntalk.co.uk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3...

Bingo, Amigo! Jackpotting: ATM malware from Latin America to the World

Introduction Of all the forms of attack against financial institutions around the world, the one that brings traditional crime and cybercrime together the most is the malicious ecosystem that exists around ATM malware. Criminals from different backgrounds work together with a single goal in mind:...

arabic-latin-glossary.philosophie.uni-wuerzburg.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-557671 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| arabic-latin-glossary.philosophie.uni-wuerzburg.de Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79...

business.toshiba.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-457644 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| business.toshiba.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...