A week in security (June 17 – 23)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at the growing pains of smart cities, took a deep dive into AI, jammed along to Radiohead, and looked at the lessons learned from Chernobyl in relation to critical infrastructure. We also explored a new Steam phish attack, and pulled apart a...

Vulnerabilities in financial mobile apps put consumers and businesses at risk

Security hubris. It’s the phrase we use to refer to our feeling of confidence grounded on assumptions we all have but may not be aware of or care to admit about cybersecurity—and, at times, privacy. It rears its ugly head when 1 we share the common notion that programmers know how to code securel...

Improper access control

Incorrect access control in the RTSP stream and web portal on all IP cameras based on Hisilicon Hi3510 firmware until Webware version V1.0.1 allows attackers to view an RTSP stream by connecting to the stream with hidden credentials guest or user that are neither displayed nor configurable in the...

ThreatList: Tax Scammers Launch a Raft of Fake Mobile Apps

Tax Day in the U.S. is looming on Monday, and as people rush to do their last-minute filing, scammers are out in full force, targeting consumers and businesses alike. According to RiskIQ numbers, the internet is awash in crafty schemes and dangerous threat campaigns that exploit the convenience o...

New Settings Let Hackers Easily Pentest Facebook, Instagram Mobile Apps

Facebook has introduced a new feature in its platform that has been designed to make it easier for bug bounty hunters to find security flaws in Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Android applications. Since almost all Facebook-owned apps by default use security mechanisms such as Certificate...

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...

FTP Server 1.32 - Denial of Service

FTP Server 1.32 - Denial of Service !/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Exploit Title: FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Date: 2019-02-26 Exploit Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar Vendor: The Olive Tree...

FTP Server 1.32 Denial Of Service

!/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Author: Marcelo VA!zquez aka s4vitar FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Exploit Title: FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Date: 2019-02-26 Exploit Author: Marcelo VA!zquez aka s4vitar Vendor: The Olive Tree Software Link:...

FTP Server 1.32 - Denial of Service Exploit

!/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Exploit Title: FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Date: 2019-02-26 Exploit Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar Vendor: The Olive Tree Software Link:...

FTP Server 1.32 - Denial of Service

!/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Exploit Title: FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Date: 2019-02-26 Exploit Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar Vendor: The Olive Tree Software Link:...

8 Ways to Avoid the Cybersecurity Grinch This Holiday Season

'Tis the season to be jolly…unless you work in cybersecurity. According to the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, organizations should expect to see a spike in potential cyberattacks starting with Black Friday/Cyber Monday and continuing through the holiday shopping season. TAU’s analysis...

8 Popular Android Apps Caught Up In Million-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme

Cheetah Mobile—a prominent Chinese app company, known for its popular utility apps like Clean Master and Battery Doctor—and one of its subsidiary Kika Tech have allegedly been caught up in an Android ad fraud scheme that stole millions of dollars from advertisers. According to app analytics firm...

Malicious Cryptocurrency Theft

[email protected] is a malicious package. The package displays malicious activities when imported from event-stream, and when used with cryptocurrenty related libraries such as copay-dash where the malicious code in flatmap-stream steals "hot" wallet profiles that were stored from mobile apps,...

AES-Killer v3.0 - Burp Plugin To Decrypt AES Encrypted Traffic Of Mobile Apps On The Fly

BurpsuitePlugin to decrypt AES Encrypted traffic on the fly. Requirements Burpsuite Java Tested on Burpsuite 1.7.36 Windows 10 xubuntu 18.04 Kali Linux 2018 What it does The IProxyListener decrypt requests and encrypt responses, and an IHttpListener than encrypt requests and decrypt responses. Bu...

How to update SAML certificate settings for Sharefile SSO using XenMobile

You can configure XenMobile and ShareFile to use Security Assertion Markup Language SAML to provide single sign-on SSO access to ShareFile mobile apps. For this you need to configure the SAML certificate...

Mobile matters: How to ready your apps for the holiday shopping spike

While more consumers now shop on smartphones, retailers have a lot of work to do to make mobile shopping easy. Developers must account for the wide variety of mobile hardware and software, take into account how consumers use their phones in stores and ensure easy checkout. The cheer and good...

Crashing Mobile Apps Capture Screens, Leak Private Data

Several mobile software developer kits SDKs can capture sensitive user data when a mobile app crashes, exposing private data to an outside third party. Researchers at Appthority singled out SDKs offered by AppSee and TestFairy in a report published Monday. They warned that mobile users whose apps...

ThreatList: Popular Apps Get Enterprise Blacklisted

Mobile apps on BYOD handhelds tend to keep enterprise security pros worried. Between apps that are malicious, others that leak data and ones with pushy permissions – it’s hard to determine what’s safe and what might violate company rules. On Wednesday, Appthority released its annual list of the...

Thousands of Mobile Apps Expose Their Unprotected Firebase Hosted Databases

Mobile security researchers have discovered unprotected Firebase databases of thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications that are exposing over 100 million data records, including plain text passwords, user IDs, location, and in some cases, financial records such as banking and cryptocurren...

Thousands of Mobile Apps Expose Their Unprotected Firebase Hosted Databases

Mobile security researchers have discovered unprotected Firebase databases of thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications that are exposing over 100 million data records, including plain text passwords, user IDs, location, and in some cases, financial records such as banking and cryptocurren...