Zendesk: "Test target" of the "HTTP target" extension can unintentionally send username and password in the Authorization header

Summary: In certain conditions, the HTTP target extension is sending the username and password of the authenticated user testing the target in the test request's Authorization header as base64 encoded i.e. HTTP basic auth. I have graded this as a medium due to some mitigating circumstances browse...

Encrypted Messaging Project "Matrix" Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack

Matrix—the organization behind an open source project that offers a protocol for secure and decentralized real-time communication—has suffered a massive cyber attack after unknown attackers gained access to the servers hosting its official website and data. Hackers defaced Matrix's website, and...

Yahoo Offers $117.5M Settlement in Data Breach Lawsuit

Yahoo is offering to cough up $117.5 million to settle a lawsuit regarding its massive data breaches that compromised the personal information of three billion users. The new $117.5 million settlement, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, comes after the internet company’s first...

SAS 2019: Triton ICS Malware Hits A Second Victim

SINGAPORE – The group behind the Triton malware, which first came to light after a disruptive critical-infrastructure attack on Saudi oil giant Petro Rabigh in 2017, has found a second victim. According to researchers at FireEye, the cybercriminals behind Triton, also called Trisis, have once aga...

Hackers Steal $19 Million From Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange

Hackers yesterday stole nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, the South Korea-based popular cryptocurrency exchange admitted today. According to Primitive Ventures' Dovey Wan, who first broke the information on social media, hackers managed to compromise a number of Bithumb's h...

Here's the List of ~600 MAC Addresses Targeted in Recent ASUS Hack

EXCLUSIVE — While revealing details of a massive supply chain cyber attack against ASUS customers, Russian security firm Kaspersky last week didn't release the full list all MAC addresses that hackers hardcoded into their malware to surgically target a specific pool of users. Instead, Kaspersky...

Location data leaks from family tracking app database

An app called Family Locator, which allows family members to keep track of one another recently experienced an exposed database issue of the worst kind. Specifically: the MongoDB database was left exposed with no password, like so many other recent infosec tales of woe. The end result is the...

Omise: Public and secret api key leaked via omise github repo(owned by omise)

Found secret key of particular omise accounts! Functionality of the public and secret keys are described below: Public key The public key can be used to create tokens via javascript from your customers browsers. This key can be safely exposed to the outside world. Secret key The secret key can be...

Starbucks: Webshell via File Upload on ecjobs.starbucks.com.cn

Summary: OS Command Injection which can let the attacker who get more important information of the server,such as disclosures internal source code of the webapp,database data and invade the internal network. Description: I found that users can upload asp/aspx and other dynamic files via the avata...

Data Breaches of the Week: Tales of PoS Malware, Latrine Status

The data-breach onslaught continued this week with casualties sprinkled across the globe. Victims included retailers, banks and one state-owned gas station. The theme this was the Indian subcontinent, with consumers in Pakistan and India feeling the main brunt of the proceedings. A point-of-sale...

Type confusion vulnerability instance analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Type confusion vulnerability in General is the type of data A as data of Type B to resolve the reference, which may lead to illicit access to data and thus execute arbitrary code. This article by IE type confusion vulnerability examples and Word type confusion vulnerability examples for analysis,...

Grammarly: Employee's GitHub Token Found In Travis CI Build Logs

Our Security Team was notified by researchers who identified a valid leaked Github token in Travis CI logs that allow accessing a limited number of Grammarly repositories. We immediately revoked the token and conducted investigation together with the Github support team. Based on the available...

Should you delete yourself from social media?

You're feeling like you've had enough. All the recent news—from Facebook's Cambridge Analytica snafu to various abuses of Twitter vulnerabilities—has you wondering: Should I delete myself from social media? Social networking does have its positive aspects. You can stay in touch with distant or no...

Hackers Destroyed VFEmail Service – Deleted Its Entire Data and Backups

What could be more frightening than a service informing you that all your data is gone—every file and every backup servers are entirely wiped out? The worst nightmare of its kind. Right? But that's precisely what just happened this week with VFEmail.net, a US-based secure email provider that lost...

Security advisory YSA-2019-02 | Yubico

Who should read this advisory? Customers, IT Managers, or FIPS Crypto Officers who use or manage YubiKey FIPS Series devices. An issue exists in YubiKey FIPS Series devices, versions 4.4.2 and 4.4.4 please note, there is no released firmware version 4.4.3. , where the first set of random values...

New Mac Malware Targets Cookies to Steal From Cryptocurrency Wallets

Mac users need to beware of a newly discovered piece of malware that steals their web browser cookies and credentials in an attempt to withdraw funds from their cryptocurrency exchange accounts. Dubbed CookieMiner due to its capability of stealing cookies-related to cryptocurrency exchanges, the...

Someone Hacked PHP PEAR Site and Replaced the Official Package Manager

Beware! If you have downloaded PHP PEAR package manager from its official website in past 6 months, we are sorry to say that your server might have been compromised. Last week, the maintainers at PEAR took down the official website of the PEAR pear-php.net after they found that someone has replac...

This Week in Security News: Risky Radio Remotes and Cybercrime

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about Trend Micro’s new research on radio frequency technology and the risks of radio remote controllers. Also, understand why there i...

VOIPO Database Exposes Millions of Texts, Call Logs

UPDATE An improperly secured database owned by a California voice-over-internet provider left millions of customer call logs, SMS message logs and credentials in plain text open for months for the taking. The database belongs to VOIPO, which provides mobile services for consumers and commercial...

Unprotected MongoDB leaks resumes of 202M Chinese job seekers

By Waqas China is often suspected to sponsor hack attacks against organizations and agencies in the US or Europe. However, this time around China itself has become a victim of a security breach. Reportedly, an unprotected MongoDB has exposed personal and professional details of more than 202...