Researchers Uncover New Attempts by Qakbot Malware to Evade Detection

The operators behind the Qakbot malware are transforming their delivery vectors in an attempt to sidestep detection. "Most recently, threat actors have transformed their techniques to evade detection by using ZIP file extensions, enticing file names with common formats, and Excel XLM 4.0 to trick...

Fake job offer leads to $600 million theft

Back in March, popular NFT battler Axie Infinity lay at the heart of a huge cryptocurrency theft inflicted on the Ronin network. From the Ronin newsletter: There has been a security breach on the Ronin Network. Earlier today, we discovered that on March 23rd, Sky Mavis’s Ronin validator nodes and...

Amazon Quietly Patches 'High Severity' Vulnerability in Android Photos App

Amazon, in December 2021, patched a high severity vulnerability affecting its Photos app for Android that could have been exploited to steal a user's access tokens. "The Amazon access token is used to authenticate the user across multiple Amazon APIs, some of which contain personal data such as...

LinkedIn: IDOR allows an attacker to delete anyone's featured photo.

An Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability allowed an attacker to delete anyone's featured photo on LinkedIn by manipulating the parameters in the delete request. This vulnerability was exploited by obtaining the necessary parameters from the victim's profile link and replacing them i...

LinkedIn Company Updates <= 1.5.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfilteredhtml capability is disallowed. Put the following payload in the "Client ID" settings: "/...

LinkedIn Company Updates <= 1.5.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfilteredhtml capability is disallowed. PoC Put the following payload in the "Client ID" settings: "/...

Malicious code in dustjs-linkedin-helpers (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 873bc4ced308a324a98fca026bd90202448ab5890c03760bfddfee7251a7211e Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

MAL-2022-2618 Malicious code in dustjs-linkedin-helpers (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 873bc4ced308a324a98fca026bd90202448ab5890c03760bfddfee7251a7211e Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

LinkedIn scams are a “significant threat”, warns FBI

Digital currency fraud is a growing issue on social media, and LinkedIn is no different. In fact, according to according to Sean Ragan, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the San Francisco and Sacramento, California, field offices, cryptocurrency scams are big business on LinkedIn. "It’s a...

WordPress LinkedIn Company Updates plugin <= 1.5.3 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Vinay Varma Mudunuri and Krishna Harsha Kondaveeti in WordPress LinkedIn Company Updates plugin versions = 1.5.3. Solution Deactivate and delete. This plugin has been closed as of June 21, 2022 and is not available for...

LinkedIn: IDOR - Delete technical skill assessment result & Gained Badges result of any user

The web app is vulnerable to IDOR at DELETE /voyager/api/voyagerAssessmentsDashSkillAssessmentAttemptReports/urn%3Ali%3AfsdskillAssessmentAttemptReport%3Aurn%3Ali%3Afsdprofile%███%2Curn%3Ali%3Askill%3A280%2C1 HTTP request. Allows an attacker to delete the skill assessment result of any user's...

Microweber CMS 1.2.15 - Account Takeover Vulnerability

Exploit Title: Microweber CMS 1.2.15 - Account Takeover Exploit Author: Manojkumar J Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/microweber/microweber Software Link: https://github.com/microweber/microweber/releases/tag/v1.2.15 Version: =1.2.15 Tested on: Windows10 CVE : CVE-2022-1631 Description:...

LinkedIn: Campaign Account Balance and History Disclosed in API Response

During the security assessment of the application, it has been observed that server-side authorization checks are not implemented on the 'GET /campaign-manager-api/campaignManagerAccounts/:campaignId/accountCredits?q=account' HTTP request. As a result, an attacker can fetch the campaign wallet...

LinkedIn: Improper access control on Linkedin Page

An improper access control vulnerability was discovered on the LinkedIn page, allowing a user with the role of analyst to publish posts even after their role was changed from super admin...

LinkedIn: Can access the job name, creator name and can report any draft/under review/rejected job

The application has a functionality using which a user can report a job if he found the job is misleading/spam or fraud. Using this feature, an attacker can do report any unlisted draft/under review/rejected job. After reporting the job the victim will receive an email from 'LinkedIn Trust & Safe...

LinkedIn: Rate limit Bypass on contact-us through IP Rotator (burp extension)(https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/solve/contact)

hello Team i have found issue on https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/solve/contact , which spam the mail box of victim through alternative email and support team. Steps 1. Go to https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/solve/contact 2. Fill the Form 3. Fill the victim mail id in alternative emai...

It’s legal to scrape public data—US appeals court

Web scraping—the automated extraction of data from websites—has been around for a long time. Simultaneously cursed and praised, with nobody being able to quite land the decisive blow about whether it should be allowed, one way or another. This may have changed, thanks to a recent US appeals court...

Critical VMware Workspace ONE Access Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild

A week after VMware released patches to remediate eight security vulnerabilities in VMware Workspace ONE Access, threat actors have begun to actively exploit one of the critical flaws in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-22954, the security shortcoming relates to a remote code execution vulnerability...

A week in security (March 28 – April 3)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: New UAC-0056 activity: There’s a Go Elephant in the room Globant suffers network breach due to LAPSUS$ compromise Update now! Apple patches two zero-day vulnerabilities that may have been actively exploited Hive ransomware impacts California non-profit health...

Watch out for LinkedIn fakes who want to get connected

Despite continued warnings of deepfake chaos during major events, things haven’t worked out the way some thought. Those video deepfakes are bad, and they remain bad. Quite simply, nobody is fooled - or at least, nobody able to make a mistaken snap judgement in a way that matters. As much as we ov...