Google's Data on Login Thefts

This is interesting research and data: With Google accounts as a case-study, we teamed up with the University of California, Berkeley to better understand how hijackers attempt to take over accounts in the wild. From March 2016 to March 2017, we analyzed several black markets to see how hijackers...

hospitallabjobs.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-407506 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| hospitallabjobs.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Che...

New Research in Invisible Inks

It's a lot more chemistry than I understand: Invisible inks based on "smart" fluorescent materials have been shining brightly if only you could see them in the data-encryption/decryption arena lately.... But some of the materials are costly or difficult to prepare, and many of these inks remain...

Heart Size: Yet Another Biometric

Turns out that heart size doesn't change throughout your adult life, and you can use low-level Doppler radar to scan the size -- even at a distance -- as a biometric. Research paper to be available soon...

Attack on Old ANSI Random Number Generator

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a paper that pointed to a potential flaw in the ANSI X9.17 RNG standard. Now, new research has found that the flaw exists in some implementations of the RNG standard. Here's the research paper, the website -- complete with cute logo -- for the attack, and Matthew...

bc-ww.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-378331 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| bc-ww.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Our computers, ourselves: digital vs. biological security

Though by night I fight malware alongside the rest of the Malwarebytes research team, by day I work as a doctoral student in Immunobiology at Yale University, where I study the development of the immune system in your bone marrow. This grants me a unique perspective, as I’ve studied both the...

Threat Spotlight: Follow the Bad Rabbit

Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues.Update 2017-10-26 16:10 EDT: added additional information regarding the links between Nyetya and BadRabbitUpdate 2017-10-26 09:20...

REMOTE CODE EXECUTION (CVE-2017-13772) WALKTHROUGH ON A TP-LINK ROUTER

INTRODUCTION In this post, I will be discussing my recent findings while conducting vulnerability research on a home router: TP-Link’s WR940N home WiFi router. This post will outline the steps taken to identify vulnerable code paths, and how we can exploit those paths to gain remote code executio...

Windows Defender Exploit Guard: Reduce the attack surface against next-generation malware

Windows Defender Exploit Guard is a new set of intrusion prevention capabilities that ships with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The four components of Windows Defender Exploit Guard are designed to lock down the device against a wide variety of attack vectors and block behaviors commonly us...

ArGoSoft Mini Mail Server 1.0.0.2 - Denial of Service

ArGoSoft Mini Mail Server 1.0.0.2 - Denial of Service !/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Description: The vulnerability was discovered during a vulnerability research lecture. Denial-of-service vulnerability in ArGoSoft Mini Mail Server 1.0.0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to waste CPU...

Ayukov NFTP FTP Client 2.0 - Remote Buffer Overflow

Ayukov NFTP FTP Client 2.0 - Remote Buffer Overflow !/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Description: The vulnerability was discovered during a vulnerability research lecture. This is meant to be a PoC. Exploit Title: Ayukov NFTP FTP Client - Buffer Overflow Date: 2017-10-21 Exploit Author: Berk Ce...

ArGoSoft Mini Mail Server 1.0.0.2 - Denial of Service

!/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Description: The vulnerability was discovered during a vulnerability research lecture. Denial-of-service vulnerability in ArGoSoft Mini Mail Server 1.0.0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to waste CPU resources memory consumption via unspecified vectors...

Fast Flux Botnet: Research Results

Just like that, another Akamai Edge has come and gone. If you were able to join us this year, I hope you had a chance to stop by my presentation on Threat Intelligence Insights: An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Botnet. In short, Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various type...

BoundHook Attack Exploits Intel Skylake MPX Feature

A post-intrusion technique developed by researchers at CyberArk Labs called BoundHooking allows attackers to exploit a feature in all Intel chips introduced since Skylake. The attack technique allows for the execution of code from any process without detection by antivirus software or other...

lse.ac.uk XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/research//prettyPhotoxss/x,/ Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Verification in progress Latest check for patch:| 15.01.2018 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 8493 VIP website status:| Y...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi Protected Access and Wi-Fi Protected Access II

On October 16, 2017, a research paper with the title “Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2” was made publicly available. This paper discusses seven vulnerabilities affecting session key negotiation in both the Wi-Fi Protected Access WPA and the Wi-Fi Protected Access II WPA2...

Inflection: Host Header Injection and Cache Poisoning

Researcher submitted a report duplicating an issue that had already been reported to us, and then requested that we disclose this report publicly. So here we are...

PT-2017-55: Denial of Service in Suricata

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Denial of Service vulnerability in Suricata. Vulnerability in DetectEngineContentInspection in Suricata allows attackers to trigger lots of redundant checks on the content of crafted network traffic resulting in a denial of service...

Taiwan Bank Heist and the Role of Pseudo Ransomware

ARCHIVED STORY Taiwan Bank Heist and the Role of Pseudo Ransomware By Trellix · October 12, 2017 Widespread reports claim the Far Eastern International Bank in Taiwan has become a victim of hacking. The attacks demonstrate the global nature of cybercrime, with the cybercriminals attempting to wir...