How Ticket Scalping Impacts Asia’s Live Entertainment Industry

Asia’s booming live entertainment industry has recently been plagued by a growing problem of ticket scalping. The term refers to the act of purchasing live event tickets in bulk by individuals, often through the use of automation aka bots, to later resell them at exorbitant prices. The issue isn’...

Recipient address is not appropriately validated or sanitized in the BaseFeeVault contract (loss of funds)

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact If the recipient address is not properly validated, an attacker could supply a malicious address as the recipient. This could result in the accumulated fees being sent to an unintended or unauthorized party. It could lead to financial loss or disruption ...

EVENT EMITTED WITHOUT ACTION

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact A malicious validator can remain in the system after exceeding it's exit penalty threshold. This poses a risk to users and a possible reputation risk to the protocol. Proof of Concept In the updateTotalPenaltyAmount... function, when the validators...

Expert Job Portal Management System 1.0 SQL Injection

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CVE-2023-34362 – MOVEit Transfer – An attack chain that retrieves sensitive information

MOVEit Transfer is a popular secure file transfer solution developed by Progress, a subsidiary of Ipswitch. At the moment, there are more than 2,500 MOVEit Transfer servers that are accessible from the internet, according to Shodan. On May 31, 2023, Progress released a security advisory affecting...

WBiz Desk 1.2 SQL Injection

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Are Your APIs Leaking Sensitive Data?

It's no secret that data leaks have become a major concern for both citizens and institutions across the globe. They can cause serious damage to an organization's reputation, induce considerable financial losses, and even have serious legal repercussions. From the infamous Cambridge Analytica...

Chitor CMS 1.1.2 SQL Injection

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The Anatomy of a Scalping Bot: NSB Was Copped!

In recent years, scalping bots have become a growing concern for online retailers. In this two-part blog series, we will analyze the inner workings of the Nike Shoe Bot NSB scalping bot, one of the most dangerous scalping bots around. We will take a closer look at the components of NSB, how we...

Hackers Flood NPM with Bogus Packages Causing a DoS Attack

Threat actors flooded the npm open source package repository for Node.js with bogus packages that briefly even resulted in a denial-of-service DoS attack. "The threat actors create malicious websites and publish empty packages with links to those malicious websites, taking advantage of open-sourc...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: AEM misconfiguration leads to Information disclosure

Sensitive information was disclosed due to a misconfiguration in AEM, allowing access to internal usernames and webroot directories by appending /.1.json to certain URLs. This could lead to unauthorized access, social engineering attacks, and reputation damage...

CVE-2023-29218

The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm through ec83d01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service reduction of reputation score by arranging for multiple Twitter accounts to coordinate negative signals regarding a target account, such as unfollowing, muting, blocking, and reporting, as exploited...

Design/Logic Flaw

DISPUTED The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm through ec83d01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service reduction of reputation score by arranging for multiple Twitter accounts to coordinate negative signals regarding a target account, such as unfollowing, muting, blocking, and reporting, as...

CVE-2023-29218

CVE-2023-29218 concerns Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm (ec83d01). The available documents describe a vulnerability where attackers can cause a denial-of-service-like effect (reduction of a target’s reputation score) by coordinating negative signals across multiple accounts (e.g., unfollowing,...

Twitter Recommendation Algorithm 安全漏洞

Twitter Recommendation Algorithm is a Twitter recommendation algorithm open-sourced by Twitter in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Twitter Recommendation Algorithm ec83d01 and prior versions, which stems from a vulnerability that allows an attacker to cause a denial of servic...

CVE-2023-29218

The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm through ec83d01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service reduction of reputation score by arranging for multiple Twitter accounts to coordinate negative signals regarding a target account, such as unfollowing, muting, blocking, and reporting, as exploited...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2023-29218

The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm through ec83d01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service reduction of reputation score by arranging for multiple Twitter accounts to coordinate negative signals regarding a target account, such as unfollowing, muting, blocking, and reporting, as...

Two-Week ATO Attack Mitigated by Imperva

Beginning on February 7, an Imperva-protected account was targeted by an ongoing account takeover ATO attack that lasted for two weeks. On average, attacks last a few hours or a couple days at most, so the length of this attack was an anomaly and underscores the persistence of the attackers. As a...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Path traversal leads to reading of local files on ███████ and ████

A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in the downloadForm endpoint of a web application, allowing an attacker to read files on the system by adding "../" to the filename parameter. This could potentially lead to the disclosure of sensitive information or system compromise. The...

Node.js: node.js process aborts when processing x509 certs with invalid public key information

A vulnerability existed in Node.js versions 18.14.2 and 19.7.0 that allowed malicious actors to cause a denial-of-service DoS by providing x509 certificates with invalid public key information. This vulnerability could lead to the termination of the Node.js process, resulting in interruptions to...