Peeling off QR Code Phishing Onion

Peeling off QR Code Phishing Onion: Revealing the Hidden Layers of Deceit By Neel H. Pathak and Pratik Sunil Kadam · October 10, 2023 Introduction: Malicious actors always seek innovative ways to bypass detection. The Trellix Advanced Research Center recently noticed an attack campaign with an...

A week in security (October 2 - October 8)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Multi-factor authentication has proven it works, so what are we waiting for? Amazon Prime email scammer snatches defeat from the jaws of victory 2023 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluation results: Malwarebytes earns high marks for detection, blocks initial malware executions...

GitHub's Secret Scanning Feature Now Covers AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Slack

GitHub has announced an improvement to its secret scanning feature that extends validity checks to popular services such as Amazon Web Services AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Slack. Validity checks, introduced by the Microsoft subsidiary earlier this year, alert users whether exposed tokens found by...

EvilProxy Phishing Attack Targets Indeed Job Platform

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new phishing campaign has emerged, specifically targeting high-profile US executives. This campaign takes advantage of open redirects from the jobs platform Indeed and employs EvilProxy to pilfer sessi...

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Remote Access VPN Unauthorized Access - Brute Force Attack (cisco-sa-asaftd-ravpn-auth-8LyfCkeC)

A vulnerability in the remote access VPN feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a brute force attack in an attempt to identify valid username and password combinations. This vulnerability is due to improper separation o...

FBI Warns of Rising Trend of Dual Ransomware Attacks Targeting U.S. Companies

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is warning of a new trend of dual ransomware attacks targeting the same victims, at least since July 2023. "During these attacks, cyber threat actors deployed two different ransomware variants against victim companies from the following variants:...

Xenomorph hunts cryptocurrency logins on Android

Cryptocurrency owners should take heed of warnings related to Xenomorph malware--Bleeping Computer reports that the most recent version of Xenomorph now targets various cryptocurrency wallets using fake browser update messaging as bait. Xenomorph is roughly a year old, first springing to prominen...

Jumpserver Authorization Issues Vulnerability

Jumpserver is an open source bastion machine from Hangzhou Feizhiyun Information Technology Co. in China. JumpServer suffers from an authorization issue vulnerability that stems from the fact that when a user enables MFA and authenticates with a public key, the Koko SSH server does not validate t...

PT-2023-7221 · Unknown · Jumpserver

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: JumpServer versions prior to 3.5.6 JumpServer versions prior to 3.6.5 Description: The issue is related to the Koko SSH server in JumpServer, an open source bastion host. When users enable MFA and use a public key for authentication, the Koko...

Xenomorph Banking Trojan: A New Variant Targeting 35+ U.S. Financial Institutions

An updated version of an Android banking trojan called Xenomorph has set its sights on more than 35 financial institutions in the U.S. The campaign, according to Dutch security firm ThreatFabric, leverages phishing web pages that are designed to entice victims into installing malicious Android ap...

Involved in a data breach? Here’s what you need to know

If you've received a message from a company saying your data has been caught up in a breach, you might be unsure what to do next. We've put together some tips which should help you when the more or less inevitable happens. 1. Check the companys advice Every breach is different, so check the...

Retool Falls Victim to SMS-Based Phishing Attack Affecting 27 Cloud Clients

Software development company Retool has disclosed that the accounts of 27 of its cloud customers were compromised following a targeted and SMS-based social engineering attack. The San Francisco-based firm blamed a Google Account cloud synchronization feature recently introduced in April 2023 for...

Malware Scanning: An Essential Layer of Website Security

Wordfence recently launched Wordfence CLI, a high performance command line malware scanner, which makes use of our extensive set of malware detection signatures to rapidly scan file systems for infections. In recent years, the WordPress community has seen a shift in emphasis towards prevention,...

SolarWinds Serv-U 15.4 < 15.4 HF2 Authentication Bypass

The version of SolarWinds Serv-U installed on the remote host is prior to 15.4 HF2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the serv-u154hf2 advisory. - A vulnerability has been identified within Serv-U 15.4 that, if exploited, allows an actor to bypass...

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Remote Access VPN Unauthorized Access - Unauthorized Clientless SSL VPN Session Establishment (cisco-sa-asaftd-ravpn-auth-8LyfCkeC)

A vulnerability in the remote access VPN feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to establish a clientless SSL VPN session with an unauthorized user. This vulnerability is due to improper separation of authentication, authorization,...

CVE-2023-40060

A vulnerability has been identified within Serv-U 15.4 and 15.4 Hotfix 1 that, if exploited, allows an actor to bypass multi-factor/two-factor authentication. The actor must have administrator-level access to Serv-U to perform this action. 15.4. SolarWinds found that the issue was not completely...

CVE-2023-40060

A vulnerability has been identified within Serv-U 15.4 and 15.4 Hotfix 1 that, if exploited, allows an actor to bypass multi-factor/two-factor authentication. The actor must have administrator-level access to Serv-U to perform this action. 15.4. SolarWinds found that the issue was not completely...

Authentication flaw

A vulnerability has been identified within Serv-U 15.4 and 15.4 Hotfix 1 that, if exploited, allows an actor to bypass multi-factor/two-factor authentication. The actor must have administrator-level access to Serv-U to perform this action. 15.4. SolarWinds found that the issue was not completely...

CVE-2023-40060

Summary: CVE-2023-40060 affects SolarWinds Serv-U 15.4 and 15.4 Hotfix 1, allowing an administrator-level attacker to bypass MFA/MFA. The issue was not fully resolved by 15.4 Hotfix 1. Affected software & cause: Serv-U FTP Server (15.4 and 15.4 Hotfix 1). The root cause is an authentication bypas...

SolarWinds Serv-U FTP Server Access Control Error Vulnerability

SolarWinds Serv-U FTP Server is a suite of FTP and MFT file transfer software from the US-based SolarWinds Corporation. An access control error vulnerability exists in versions of SolarWinds Serv-U FTP Server prior to 15.4 HF2, which stems from an attacker being able to bypass multi/two-factor...