A week in security (July 25 - July 31)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Update Google Chrome now! New version includes 11 important security patches Lightning Framework, modular Linux malware Malware spent months hoovering up credit card details from 300 US restaurants Lock down your Neopets account: Data breach being investigated Demo...

To settle with the DoJ, Uber must confess to a cover-up. And it did.

Uber covered up the 2016 data breach that affected its 57 million customers and drivers. The confession came as part of the settlement between the DOJ US Department of Justice and the taxi company, which will see it avoid criminal prosecution. In a press release from the DOJ, Uber "admits that it...

To settle with the DoJ, Uber must confess to a cover-up. And it did.

Uber covered up the 2016 data breach that affected its 57 million customers and drivers. The confession came as part of the settlement between the DOJ US Department of Justice and the taxi company, which will see it avoid criminal prosecution. In a press release from the DOJ, Uber "admits that it...

T-Mobile agrees to pay customers $350 million in settlement over data breach

T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to settle class action claims related to a 2021 cyberattack which impacted around 80 million US residents. Under the proposed settlement, T-Mobile would also commit to an aggregate incremental spend of $150 million for data security and related technology i...

wfCashERC4626 maxWithdraw, previewWithdraw, previewRedeem, convertToAssets, convertToShares doesn't conform to EIP4626

Lines of code Vulnerability details EIP4626 states that maxWithdraw, convertToAssets, convertToShares, previewRedeem and previewWithdraw must not revert unless due to large input, or due to a reason that will make deposit/redeem revert. However, wfCash4626's implementation of those ends up callin...

Re-entrancy in wfCashERC4626.withdraw() can lead to more gains in assets

Lines of code Vulnerability details This is a corrected version of the previous submission and typo mistakes corrected. Impact The withdraw function in wfCashERC4626.sol can be re-entered at the point of redeemInternal. Assume asset tokens are sent to receiver after shares are burnt, and user...

Google May Owe You a Chunk of $100 Million

Plus: The US admits to cyber operations supporting Ukraine, SCOTUS investigates its own, and a Michael Flynn surveillance mystery is solved...

expiry is not work in contract

Reported by warden rayn in 98, duplicate of 28 Low Risk Findings - expiry is not work in contract In document, we define that: Expiry The expiry date of the market. If a market has not settled by its expiry date, it will automatically settle at the lower bound of its Valuation Range. But in...

Market expiry behaviour differs in implementation and documentation

Lines of code Vulnerability details Description The docs say that “If a market has not settled by its expiry date, it will automatically settle at the lower bound of its Valuation Range.” However, in the implementation, the expiry date is entirely ignored. The default settlement after expiry is a...

settleFunding will exceed block gas with more markets and activity

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact As the number of supported markets grow, settleFunding will reach a point were it exceeds the block gas limit on Avalanche C-Chain. This will prevent users from calling the function and cause a wide spread Denial of Service. Looking at transactions for t...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Violation Case

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit over the company's use of cookies to allegedly track Facebook users' internet activity even after they had logged off from the platform. In addition, the social media company will be required to delete all of the data it illegally...

Ransomware cyberattack forces New Mexico jail to lock down

Five days after the new year, the Metropolitan Detention Center MDC in Bernalillo County, New Mexico suddenly went on lockdown. The reason? A ransomware cyberattack has knocked the jails internet connection offline, rendering most of their data systems, security cameras, and automatic doors...

CVE-2021-35528

Improper Access Control vulnerability in the application authentication and authorization of Hitachi Energy Retail Operations, Counterparty Settlement and Billing CSB allows an attacker to execute a modified signed Java Applet JAR file. A successful exploitation may lead to data extraction or...

CVE-2021-35528

Improper Access Control vulnerability in the application authentication and authorization of Hitachi Energy Retail Operations, Counterparty Settlement and Billing CSB allows an attacker to execute a modified signed Java Applet JAR file. A successful exploitation may lead to data extraction or...

CVE-2021-35528 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Vulnerability in Retail Operations Product and Counterparty Settlement and Billing (CSB)

Improper Access Control vulnerability in the application authentication and authorization of Hitachi Energy Retail Operations, Counterparty Settlement and Billing CSB allows an attacker to execute a modified signed Java Applet JAR file. A successful exploitation may lead to data extraction or...

Hitachi Energy Retail Operations和Hitachi Energy Counterparty Settlement and Billing 安全漏洞

Hitachi Retail Operations and Hitachi Counterparty Settlement and Billing are both products of Hitachi, Japan.Hitachi Retail Operations is the most comprehensive solution for the retail energy market. It provides utility data management, customer contract management, revenue and load forecasting,...

CVE-2021-35528

Improper Access Control vulnerability in the application authentication and authorization of Hitachi Energy Retail Operations, Counterparty Settlement and Billing CSB allows an attacker to execute a modified signed Java Applet JAR file. A successful exploitation may lead to data extraction or...

Possible to restart liquidation process after liquidation is settled

Handle harleythedog Vulnerability details Impact In the triggerLiquidation function, there is a require statement as follows: requireauction.startedAt == 0 || auction.boughtAt != 0, "on going"; However, after an auction has been settled, we have auction.boughtAt != 0, so this require statement wi...

Bonding mechanism allows malicious user to DOS auctions

Handle kenzo Vulnerability details A malicious user can listen to the mempool and immediately bond when an auction starts, without aim of settling the auction. As no one can cancel his bond in less than 24h, this will freeze user funds and auction settlement for 24h until his bond is burned and t...

If newRatio > ibRatio after a settlement the protocol could lose its funds.

Handle tensors Vulnerability details Suppose that after a certain settleAuction call we have that newRatio ibRatio. I don't see any reason why this couldn't be possible, going through the math and solving for this condition we can see that: if b ibRatio then newRatio ibRatio assuming...