Phishing Attacks

silverstripe/framework is vulnerable to phishing attacks. Remote attackers can leverage the fact that logins can be performed over GET requests to conduct phishing attacks without the victim knowing...

IRS Warns of Summertime Scams

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released an alert warning of various types of scams targeting taxpayers this summer. The alert describes common features of these cyber crimes, including robocalls, demands for immediate payment, and threats to have taxpayers arrested immediately. Taxpayers an...

FBI: Extortion, CEO Fraud Among Top Online Fraud Complaints in 2016

Online extortion, tech support scams and phishing attacks that spoof the boss were among the most costly cyber scams reported by consumers and businesses last year, according to new figures from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3. The IC3 report released Thursday correctly identifies...

FTC Releases Alert on Tech-Support Scams

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on technical-support scams. In these schemes, deceptive tech-support operations offer to fix problems that don't exist, placing calls or sending pop-ups to make people think their computers are infected with viruses. Users should not give...

Nigerian phishing: Industrial companies under attack

In late 2016, the Kaspersky Lab Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT reported on phishing attacks that were primarily targeting industrial companies from the metallurgy, electric power, construction, engineering and other sectors. As further research...

Open redirect

An open redirect vulnerability is present in Piwigo 2.9 and probably prior versions, allowing remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks. The identification.php component is affected by this issue: the "redirect" parameter is not validated...

CVE-2017-9464

An open redirect vulnerability is present in Piwigo 2.9 and probably prior versions, allowing remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks. The identification.php component is affected by this issue: the "redirect" parameter is not validated...

CVE-2017-9464

CVE-2017-9464: Open redirect vulnerability in Piwigo 2.9 and likely earlier versions. The issue affects the identification.php component where the redirect parameter is not validated, enabling remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary sites (phishing risk). No exploitation details or specif...

CVE-2017-9464

An open redirect vulnerability is present in Piwigo 2.9 and probably prior versions, allowing remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks. The identification.php component is affected by this issue: the "redirect" parameter is not validated...

Mozilla Fixes 32 Vulnerabilities in Firefox 54

Mozilla fixed 32 vulnerabilities, including a critical bug that could have resulted in a crash, with the release Tuesday of Firefox 54, the latest version of its flagship browser. The critical bug, a use-after-free vulnerability, was dug up by longtime bug hunter Nils. The vulnerability...

Drupal Public Download Count Module Open Redirect Vulnerability

Drupal is a free, open-source content management system developed in the PHP language and maintained by the Drupal community. An open redirect vulnerability exists in the Drupal Public Download Count module. Allow attackers to exploit the vulnerability to allow users to access malicious websites,...

22 Apple Distributors Arrested for Selling Customers’ Data in $7.4 Million

--- Image Source: South China Morning Post Chinese authorities have announced the arrest of around 22 distributors working as Apple distributors as part of a $7 million operation, who stole customers’ personal information from an internal Apple database and illegally sold it to Chinese black mark...

Should SaaS Companies Publish Customers Lists?

A few weeks back, HR and financial management firm Workday.com sent a security advisory to customers warning that crooks were sending targeted malware phishing attacks at customers. At the same time, Workday is publishing on its site a list of more than 800 companies that use its services, making...

Open redirect

IBM Business Process Manager 8.0 and 8.5 could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, using an open redirect attack. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the URL displayed to redirect a user to a...

CVE-2017-1159

IBM Business Process Manager 8.0 and 8.5 could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, using an open redirect attack. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the URL displayed to redirect a user to a...

CVE-2017-1159

CVE-2017-1159 affects IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) 8.0 and 8.5, where improper validation of user-supplied input enables an open redirect that can be used for phishing (spoofed URL leading to a malicious site). The IBM bulletin documents affected BPM versions (V7.5.x to V8.5.x) and provides...

XSS'OR - Hack with JavaScript

XSS'OR is a free online tool for hacking with JavaScript. It contains three major modules: 1. Encode/Decode The Encode/Decode module, including: front-end encryption and decryption; code compression, decompression, beautification, the implementation of testing; character set conversion, hash...

CVE-2015-4070

Open redirect vulnerability in the proxyimages function in wowproxy.php in the Wow Moodboard Lite plugin 1.1.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the url parameter...

CVE-2015-4070

CVE-2015-4070: Open redirect vulnerability in Wow Moodboard Lite plugin for WordPress (version 1.1.1.1) affecting the proxyimages function in wowproxy.php. Attackers can redirect users to arbitrary sites via the url parameter, enabling phishing. The provided documents confirm the vulnerability bu...

CVE-2015-4070

Open redirect vulnerability in the proxyimages function in wowproxy.php in the Wow Moodboard Lite plugin 1.1.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the url parameter...