New Research: Crypto-mining Drives Almost 90% of All Remote Code Execution Attacks

It’s early in 2018 and we have already witnessed one of the top contenders in this year’s web application attacks. Continuing the trend from the last months of 2017, crypto-mining malware is quickly becoming attackers’ favorite modus operandi. In December 2017, 88 percent of all remote code...

DVHMA - Damn Vulnerable Hybrid Mobile App (For Android) That Intentionally Contains Vulnerabilities

Damn Vulnerable Hybrid Mobile App DVHMA is an hybrid mobile app for Android that intentionally contains vulnerabilities. Its purpose is to enable security professionals to test their tools and techniques legally, help developers better understand the common pitfalls in developing hybrid mobile ap...

masterofblackjack.com Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-562397 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| masterofblackjack.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| Open Redirect / CWE-601 CVSSv3 Score:| 3.4...

Reported Critical Vulnerabilities In Microsoft Software On the Rise

The number of reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft software has mounted from 325 in 2013 to 685 last year, a rise of 111 percent, according to new research. Moreover, there has also been a 54 percent increase in critical Microsoft vulnerabilities since 2016, researchers at Avecto said in their...

Inside the MSRC– The Monthly Security Update Releases

For the second in this series of blog entries we want to look into which vulnerability reports make it into the monthly release cadence. It may help to start with some history. In September 2003 we made a change from a release anytime approach to a mostly predictable, monthly release cadence...

Calling Squid "Calamari" Makes It More Appetizing

Research shows that what a food is called affects how we think about it. Research paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Valve: Xss was found by exploiting the URL markdown on http://store.steampowered.com

Hello guys I found an xss vulnerability on store.steampowered.com markdown POC http://store.steampowered.com/widget/386360/?t=url=google.com:/onclick=%27alertdocument.domain%27url=xss/url Here is my exploit url=google.com:/onclick='alertdocument.domain'url=xss/url Steps 1 - go to any product 2 -...

Bug bounty left over (and rant) Part III (Google and Twitter)

tl;dr in this blog post I am going to talk about some bug bounty left over with a little rant. Here you can find bug bounty left over part I and II Here you can find bug bounty rant part I and II Introduction In one of my previous post I was saying that: "The rule 1 of any bug hunter... is to hav...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of January 29, 2018

Late last year, Trend Micro introduced its Security Predictions for 2018. One of the predictions stated that digital extortion will be at the core of most cybercriminals’ business model. It’s much more than just ransomware – it is the most successful criminal business model in the current threat...

Remote Code Execution on the Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000

Remote Code Execution on the Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000 In which we detail the process of vulnerability research on a life critical embedded system: a medical infusion pump. Table of Contents Remote Code Execution on the Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000 Table of Contents Summary Introduction Why ...

WhatsApp Vulnerability

A new vulnerability in WhatsApp has been discovered: ...the researchers unearthed far more significant gaps in WhatsApp's security: They say that anyone who controls WhatsApp's servers could effortlessly insert new people into an otherwise private group, even without the permission of the...

Why Stand-Alone IDPS Matters More Than Ever, and the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant

First, What is IDPS and Why Do We Care? Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS emerged as an improvement on Intrusion Detection Systems IDS. IDS are out-of-band collectors of network traffic that analyze the information and provide alerts. The “eureka” of IPS was that instead of just alerting, why not...

Detecting Drone Surveillance with Traffic Analysis

This is clever: Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel have built a proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones that demonstrates a clever, if not exactly simple, way to determine whether a certain person or object is under aerial surveillance. They fir...

D-Link DNS-343 ShareCenter < 1.05 - Command Injection

Introduction The purpose of this article is to detail the research that I have recently completed regarding the D-Link DNS 343 ShareCenter. Background The D-Link ShareCenter 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure DNS-343 connects to your network instead of to a computer so everyone on your network can...

January 12, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Martin Luther King Jr.” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 12, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Intel CEO releases...

CoffeeMiner - Collaborative (MITM) Cryptocurrency Mining Pool In Wifi Networks

Collaborative mitm cryptocurrency mining pool in wifi networks Warning: this project is for academic/research purposes only. A blog post about this project can be read here: http://arnaucode.com/blog/coffeeminer-hacking-wifi-cryptocurrency-miner.html Concept Performs a MITM attack to all selected...

About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Supplemental Update - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- Speculative execution side-channel attack (8429711b-76ca-474e-94a0-6b980f1e2d47)

Mozilla Foundation reports : Jann Horn of Google Project Zero Security reported that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack. Microsoft Vulnerability Research extended this attack to browser JavaScript engines and demonstrated tha...

Western Digital WDMyCloud 2.30.165 Multiple Vulnerabilities

WDMyCloud versions 2.30.165 and below suffer from file upload, hard coded backdoor, command injection, cross site request forgery, denial of service, and information disclosure vulnerabilities. WDMyCloud = 2.30.165 Multiple Vulnerabilities Released Date: 2018-01-04 Last Modified: 2017-06-11 Compa...

Spectre and Meltdown from a CNO Perspective

Longtime readers know that I have no problem with foreign countries replacing American vendors with local alternatives. For example, see Five Reasons I Want China Running Its Own Software. This is not a universal principle, but as an American I am fine with it. Putting my computer network...