Using USB Modems to Phish and Send Malicious SMS Messages

Some USB modems can be leveraged to send malicious SMS messages and even carry out spear-phishing attacks – sometimes in conjunction with each other – thanks to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability present in the device’s web interfaces. According to Swedish security researcher Andreas Lind...

Israeli Defense computer hacked in Spear Phishing Attack

Hackers broke into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software. Reuters reported Israeli Defense is the latest illustrious victim of the Spear Phishing Attack, and hackers penetrated into an Israeli defense ministry computer using a malicious email...

CVE-2013-4200

The isURLInPortal method in the URLTool class in inportal.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 treats URLs starting with a space as a relative URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass the allowexternalloginsites filtering property, redirect users to...

CVE-2013-7255

CVE-2013-7255 is an open redirect vulnerability in Opsview before 4.4.2. The available documents identify the affected product and version, and describe that remote attackers can redirect users to arbitrary websites and conduct phishing via unspecified vectors. The root cause details, specific vu...

CVE-2013-6389

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Facebook Open URL Redirection vulnerability

Security Researcher Dan Melamed discovered an Open URL redirection vulnerability in Facebook that allowed him to have a facebook.com link redirect to any website without restrictions. An open URL Redirection flaw is generally used to convince a user to click on a trusted link which is specially...

Japanese word processor 'Ichitaro' zero-day attack discovered in the wild

Japanese most popular word processing software 'Ichitaro' and Multiple Products are vulnerable to a zero day Remote Code Execution Flaw Vulnerability, allowing the execution of arbitrary code to compromise a user's system. According to assigned CVE-2013-5990, malicious attacker is able to gain...

JVN#71256611: ASP.NET vulnerable to open redirect

ASP.NET provided by Microsoft contains an open redirect vulnerability due to an issue in the login component. Therefore a web application that implements ASP.NET may be vulnerable. Impact The user who accesses the web application that implements ASP.NET may be redirected to an arbitrary website. ...

New Phishing attack targets Italian Postal and Financial service again

A phishing attack is a complex combination of technology and psychology. There are numerous ways in which people are being made fools and they can be conned by hitting on unsecured website links. Sophos experts detected this week an intriguing case of phishing against the Italian postal service...

DNN (DotNetNuke) < 6.2.9 / 7.1.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of DNN installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - The application is affected by a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability because input to the 'Display Name' in the 'Manage Profile' view is not properly sanitized. CVE-2013-3943 - The application is...

Mailbox iPhone app vulnerability executes any Javascript from HTML mail body

Italian Researcher Michele Spagnuolo recently revealed a serious vulnerability in the popular Mailbox iPhone app. Mailbox is a tidy iOS the email app recently purchased by Dropbox, has a pretty wide-open hole that could allow bad actors to hijack your device. The flaw occurs in the latest version...

Mailbox iPhone app vulnerability executes any Javascript from HTML mail body

Italian Researcher Michele Spagnuolo recently revealed a serious vulnerability in the popular Mailbox iPhone app. Mailbox is a tidy iOS the email app recently purchased by Dropbox, has a pretty wide-open hole that could allow bad actors to hijack your device. The flaw occurs in the latest version...

New Mac OS Malware exploited two known Java vulnerabilities

A new Mac OS Malware has been discovered called OSX/Leverage.A, which appears to be yet another targeted command-and-control Trojan horse, that creates a backdoor on an affected user's machine. The Trojan named 'Leverage' because the Trojan horse is distributed as an application disguised as a...

New Mac OS Malware exploited two known Java vulnerabilities

A new Mac OS Malware has been discovered called OSX/Leverage.A, which appears to be yet another targeted command-and-control Trojan horse, that creates a backdoor on an affected user’s machine. The Trojan named 'Leverage' because the Trojan horse is distributed as an application disguised as a...

Pinterest Exploit exposes user information of 70 Million accounts

Security researcher Dan Melamed has found a serious Pinterest Exploit that exposed user's information of over 70 Million accounts. The security researcher Dan Melamed has found a Critical Pinterest Exploit that compromised the privacy of over 70 Million Users, the flaw allows hackers to view the...

CVE-2013-4955

CVE-2013-4955: Puppet Enterprise before 3.0.1 contains an open redirect in the login page via a URL in the service parameter, enabling attackers to redirect users to arbitrary sites and facilitate phishing. Impact is a web-redirect vuln; no exploit details provided. Mitigation: upgrade Puppet Ent...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Secure Message Notification Email Messages on August 13, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30401 First Published: 2013 August 13 19:58 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a secure message notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipie...

Daily Dot News portal hacked by Syrian Electronic Army with phishing attack

Pro-Assad hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army claims to have breached the online news portal "Daily Dot" and deleted an article with a caricature of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. SEA hackers gave an advance warning to Daily Dot editorial team via twitter, said "Dear @dailydot, please remo...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Payroll Document Delivery Email Messages on July 18, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30144 First Published: 2013 July 19 13:03 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a payroll document attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient...

CVE-2013-2248

Multiple open redirect vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2.0.0 through 2.3.15 allow remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in a parameter using the 1 redirect: or 2 redirectAction: prefix...