Google Issues Urgent Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google on Friday shipped an out-of-band security update to address a high severity vulnerability in its Chrome browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-1096, the zero-day flaw relates to a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine. An...

Vortex - VPN Overall Reconnaissance, Testing, Enumeration And eXploitation Toolkit

VPN Overall Reconnaissance, Testing, Enumeration and Exploitation Toolkit Overview A very simple Python framework, inspired by SprayingToolkit, that tries to automate most of the process required to detect, enumerate and attack common O365 and VPN endpoints like Cisco, Citrix, Fortinet, Pulse,...

WordPress Add Linkedin insight tags for Linkedin ads plugin <= 1.2.3 - Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered in WordPress Add Linkedin insight tags for Linkedin ads plugin versions = 1.2.3. Solution Update the WordPress Add Linkedin insight tags for Linkedin ads plugin to the latest available version at least 1.2.4...

WordPress Add Linkedin insight tags for Linkedin ads plugin <= 1.2.3 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability

Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability discovered in WordPress Add Linkedin insight tags for Linkedin ads plugin versions = 1.2.3. Solution Update the WordPress Add Linkedin insight tags for Linkedin ads plugin to the latest available version at least 1.2.4...

TrickBot Malware Targeted Customers of 60 High-Profile Companies Since 2020

The notorious TrickBot malware is targeting customers of 60 financial and technology companies, including cryptocurrency firms, primarily located in the U.S., even as its operators have updated the botnet with new anti-analysis features. "TrickBot is a sophisticated and versatile malware with mor...

SocialPwned - An OSINT Tool That Allows To Get The Emails, From A Target, Published In Social Networks Such As Instagram, Linkedin And Twitter To Find Possible Credentials Leaks In PwnDB Or Dehashed And Obtain Google Account Information Via GHunt

SocialPwned is an OSINT tool that allows to get the emails, from a target, published in social networks like Instagram, Linkedin and Twitter to find the possible credential leaks in PwnDB or Dehashed and obtain Google account information via GHunt. The purpose of this tool is to facilitate the...

How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other neer-do-wells are hoping you will, because theyve long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that...

The 5 Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, and the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, it’s time to take stock of what resonated with our 1 million+ monthly visitors this year, with an eye to summing up some hot trends gleaned from looking at the most-read stories on the Threatpost site. While 2020 was all about...

Denial of Service in chatwoot/chatwoot

The extractreply function https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/blob/a0ffefad717b632269883863c27242bb97d3b66d/app/presenters/mailpresenter.rbL105 is highly inefficient on HTML emails. A legitimate LinkedIn email has 20kb of HTML content which takes a minute or two to process through that function,...

goEnumBruteSpray - User Enumeration And Password Bruteforce On Azure, ADFS, OWA, O365 And Gather Emails On Linkedin

The recommended module is o365 for user enumeration and passwords bruteforce / spray . Additional information can be retrieved to avoid account lockout, to know that the password is good but expired, MFA enabled,... Linkedin This module should be used to retrieve a list of email addresses before...

Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme

In August, KrebsOnSecurity warned that scammers were contacting people and asking them to unleash ransomware inside their employers network, in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company. This week, authorities in Nigeria arrested a suspect in connection with the...

Researchers Demonstrate New Way to Detect MitM Phishing Kits in the Wild

No fewer than 1,220 Man-in-the-Middle MitM phishing websites have been discovered as targeting popular online services like Instagram, Google, PayPal, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn with the goal of hijacking users' credentials and carrying out further follow-on attacks. The findings come from a ne...

Cybercrime Group Asking Insiders for Help in Planting Ransomware

A Nigerian threat actor has been observed attempting to recruit employees by offering them to pay $1 million in bitcoins to deploy Black Kingdom ransomware on companies' networks as part of an insider threat scheme. "The sender tells the employee that if they're able to deploy ransomware on a...

Iranian Hackers Target Several Israeli Organizations With Supply-Chain Attacks

IT and communication companies in Israel were at the center of a supply chain attack campaign spearheaded by an Iranian threat actor that involved impersonating the firms and their HR personnel to target victims with fake job offers in an attempt to penetrate their computers and gain access to th...

Experts Uncover Several C&C Servers Linked to WellMess Malware

Cybersecurity researchers on Friday unmasked new command-and-control C2 infrastructure belonging to the Russian threat actor tracked as APT29, aka Cozy Bear, that has been spotted actively serving WellMess malware as part of an ongoing attack campaign. More than 30 C2 servers operated by the...

New LinkedIn phishing campaign found using Google Forms

By Sudais Asif In the latest LinkedIn phishing scam, the sender’s email address as shown appears to be from Paul University which is based in Nigeria. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New LinkedIn phishing campaign found using Google Forms...

The SolarWinds Hackers Used an iOS Flaw to Compromise iPhones

Security researchers say the group exploited a zero-day in Apple’s operating system to target European government officials over LinkedIn...

Safari Zero-Day Used in Malicious LinkedIn Campaign

Threat actors used a Safari zero-day flaw to send malicious links to government officials in Western Europe via LinkedIn before researchers from Google discovered and reported the vulnerability. That’s the word from researchers from Google Threat Analysis Group TAG and Google Project Zero, who...

Google Details iOS, Chrome, IE Zero-Day Flaws Exploited Recently in the Wild

Threat intelligence researchers from Google on Wednesday shed more light on four in-the-wild zero-days in Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer browsers that were exploited by malicious actors in different campaigns since the start of the year. What's more, three of the four zero-days were...

A week in security (June 28 – July 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Is it Game Over for VR Advergaming? Lil’ skimmer, the Magecart impersonator What is the WireGuard VPN protocol? Binance receives the ban hammer from UK’s FCA Fired by algorithm: The future’s here and it’s a robot wearing a white collar Second colossal Linkedin...