Feds Crack Down on Money Mules, Warn of BEC Scams

The Justice Department said this week that it is cracking down on money mules, i.e., middlemen who assist in fraud schemes by receiving money from victims and forwarding proceeds to foreign-based perpetrators. So far, feds say they have halted more than 600 domestic money mules – exceeding the 40...

News Wrap: Authorities Target Evil Corp., Imminent Monitor, Money Mules

In this week’s Threatpost news wrap, editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell break down the top infosec news, including: Authorities crack down on cybercrime group Evil Corp. with sanctions and charges against its leader, known for his lavish lifestyle. The developers behind a commodity...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18676

An issue was discovered in Squid 3.x and 4.x through 4.8. Due to incorrect input validation, there is a heap-based buffer overflow that can result in Denial of Service to all clients using the proxy. Severity is high due to this vulnerability occurring before normal security checks; any remote...

Spam and phishing in Q3 2019

Quarterly highlights Amazon Prime In Q3, we registered numerous scam mailings related to Amazon Prime. Most of the phishing emails with a link to a fake Amazon login page offered new prices or rewards for buying things, or reported problems with membership, etc. Against the backdrop of September'...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5874

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-5874

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5859

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 76.0.3809.87 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-5859

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 76.0.3809.87 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-5874

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5859

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 76.0.3809.87 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5874

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-5874

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-5874

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

Lenovo System Interface Foundation Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

Description Lenovo System Interface Foundation is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities. An attacker can exploit these issues to execute arbitrary code or gain elevated privileges on the affected system. Versions prior to Lenovo System Interface Foundation 1.1.18.3 are vulnerable. Technologi...

Facebook scams: Bad ads, bogus grants, and fake tickets lurk on social media giant

We recently highlighted new steps Instagram is taking to try and clamp down on scammers sending fake messages on their platform. It turns out, other social media giants are walking a similar path for a variety of bogus ads and other attacks. Facebook scams in particular have taken off, despite th...

Steam-powered scammers

Digital game distribution services have not only simplified the sale of games themselves, but provided developers with additional monetization levers. For example, in-game items, such as skins, equipment, and other character-enhancing elements as well as those that help one show up, can be sold f...

Definitive Dossier of Devilish Debug Details – Part Deux: A Didactic Deep Dive into Data Driven Deductions

In Part One of this blog series, Steve Miller outlined what PDB paths are, how they appear in malware, how we use them to detect malicious files, and how we sometimes use them to make associations about groups and actors. As Steve continued his research into PDB paths, we became interested in...

CVE-2019-5874

Insufficient filtering in URI schemes in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – Follow The Money

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee ATR Analyzes Sodinokibi aka REvil Ransomware-as-a-Service – Follow The Money By John Fokker · October 14, 2019 Episode 3: Follow the Money This is the third installment of the McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR analysis of Sodinokibi and its connections to GandCrab, the mos...

Microsoft Edge Chakra Scripting Engine CVE-2019-1366 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed attacks will cause denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft ChakraCore Microsoft...