Twitter Insiders Allegedly Spied for Saudi Arabia

Hackers are one thing. But too few companies take the threat of an inside job seriously enough...

Details on Uzbekistan Government Malware: SandCat

Kaspersky has uncovered an Uzbeki hacking operation, mostly due to incompetence on the part of the government hackers. The group's lax operational security includes using the name of a military group with ties to the SSS to register a domain used in its attack infrastructure; installing Kaspersky...

WeWork's Wi-Fi Is Woefully Insecure

The Saudi oil strike, a license plate privacy disaster, and more of the week's top security news...

saudi-holding.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-957737 Security Researcher geeknik Helped patch 8834 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 21 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting saudi-holding.com website a...

Apple Contractors Will Stop Listening to Your Siri Recordings—For Now

Facial recognition hits minors, Facebook takes down Saudi accounts, and more security news this week...

‘Twas the night before

Recently, the United States Cyber Command USCYBERCOM Malware Alert @CNMFVirusAlert highlighted several VirusTotal uploads of theirs - and the executable objects relating to 2016 – 2017 NewsBeef/APT33 activity are interesting for a variety of reasons. Before continuing, it's important to restate y...

Iran-linked APT33 Shakes Up Cyberespionage Tactics

Following a recent report detailing APT33’s infrastructure and tactics, the Iranian state-sponsored threat actor shook up its cyberespionage efforts by adopting new tools and reassigning key domain infrastructure. The infrastructure overhaul stems from a March 2019 Symantec report exposing the...

FIN7 Linked to Escalating Active Exploits for Microsoft SharePoint Bug

A recently patched, high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2019-0604 that allows remote code-execution is being increasingly exploited in the wild, according to researchers – possibly by the FIN7 group, among others. According to the Microsoft’s advisory, the vulnerability which...

MuddyWater APT Hones an Arsenal of Custom Tools

An array of customized attack tools are helping the MuddyWater advanced persistent threat APT group to successfully exfiltrate data from its governmental and telco targets in the Middle East; an analysis of this toolset reveals a moderately sophisticated threat actor at work – with the potential ...

Elfin Hacking Group Targets Multiple U.S. and Saudi Arabian Firms

An Iran-linked cyber-espionage group that has been found targeting critical infrastructure, energy and military sectors in Saudi Arabia and the United States two years ago continues targeting organizations in the two nations, Symantec reported on Wednesday. Widely known asAPT33 , which Symantec...

Years-Long Phishing Campaign Targets Saudi Gov Agencies

An ongoing three-year-old phishing campaign has been targeting the credentials of Saudi Arabian government agencies — with a financially motivated actor the likely culprit. The campaign, code-named “Bad Tidings,” has siphoned victims’ credentials by pretending to be the Kingdom’s Ministry of...

Saudi Arabia smart phone application Dalil is burst serious vulnerability: the more than 500 million users information was leaked-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Dalil is a similar to Truecaller's smart phone application, but only limited to Saudi Arabia and other Arab regions of the user. Due to the application of the use of the MongoDB database can not enter the password in the case of online access, causing the user data of the continued leak of the we...

Saudi caller ID app Dalil leaked data of over 5 Million users

By Uzair Amir Thanks to yet another unsecure MongoDB Server. Dalil is a Saudi caller ID app that is reportedly been leaking user data because of storing it on an unsecure MongoDB server. Within a week private data of over 5 million Dalil users has been leaked and the data is available online easi...

saudia-arabia.exportersindia.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-712702 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| saudia-arabia.exportersindia.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv...

saudi-arabia.exportersindia.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-712701 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| saudi-arabia.exportersindia.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3...

Twitter Draws Data Privacy Concerns with Two New Bugs

Two recently-patched flaws in Twitter’s platform have reignited concerns about user data-privacy issues. On Monday, the social-media giant revealed a hole that accidentally enabled bad actors to pull the country codes of accounts’ phone numbers – and revealed that several IP addresses located in...

Lawsuit Claims Pegasus Spyware Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi

A well-known Saudi dissident previously targeted by the notorious Pegasus spyware has filed a lawsuit against that spyware’s authors, Israel-based NSO Group. The suit claims that Pegasus was instrumental in the Saudi government’s surveillance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi leading ...

Cisco Patches Critical Bug in License Management Tool

Cisco Systems is warning of a critical bug in two of its license management tools that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary queries. A successful attack could allow for an attacker to modify and delete random data in Cisco product lifecycle management applications...

saudi-arabia.exportersindia.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-696112 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| saudi-arabia.exportersindia.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3...

Russia launched Triton malware to sabotage Saudi petrochemical plant

By Waqas A few days ago it was reported that a new malware called GreyEnergy has been targeting high-profile industrial and energy sector with espionage and fingers were pointed at Russian hackers. Now, it has been revealed that Petrochemical plants in Saudi Arabia have been on the radar of...