Phishing Campaign Using Spoofed US-CERT Email Addresses

On January 10, 2012, US-CERT received reports of a phishing campaign that is spoofing US-CERT email to deliver a variant of the Zeus/Zbot Trojan known as Ice-IX. This campaign appears to be targeting a large number of private sector organizations as well as federal, state, and local governments...

6) (Anti) social networking

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are fabulous platforms for sharing information and news. Retailers of all stripes have tapped into this and are using them to get the word out – virally – about discounts, sales and in-store events. Unfortunately, mechanisms for vetting online reputation...

Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.0 - Latest Version Download

The Social Engineer Toolkit SET has been updated to version 1.0! We wrote about the Social Engineer's Toolkit in our old post here. This release is called the Devolution Release. "The Social Engineering Toolkit SET is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the hum...

US Tax Season Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

In the past, US-CERT has received reports of an increased number of phishing scams and malware campaigns that take advantage of the United States tax season. Due to the upcoming tax deadline, US-CERT reminds users to remain cautious when receiving unsolicited email that could be part of a potenti...

IRS Warns of Online Scams

US-CERT is aware of reports of tax season phishing scams. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has issued a news release on its website warning consumers about potential scams. These scams are circulating via fraudulent email or other online messages appearing to come from the IRS. They attempt to...

Inside the Pay-Per-Install Malware Economy

Stevens provides considerable details on the methods and tools used by cyber-criminals, the seedboxes and crypters that are used to get around anti-malware detection and the clever black hat SEO Search Engine Optimization techniques used in social engineering attacks. An example of one affiliate...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1885-1 (xulrunner)

The remote host is missing an update to xulrunner announced via advisory DSA 1885-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb18851.nasl 6615 2017-07-07 12:09:52Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1885-1 xulrunner Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft Inc...

DSA-1885-1 xulrunner - several vulnerabilities

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MicroSolved Explains Credit Union Pen Test

Officials at MicroSolved, the security services company that was involved in the penetration test that set off concerns about malware-infected CDs being sent to credit unions, have posted a detailed explanation of the technique and how it turned into a national news story. In short, the technique...

Security collection: help your hand three exploits tools-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

We are talking about here is some for creating security tools and exploits program Security Platform. Security experts to perform penetration tests, system administrators can verify whether the patch has been installed, manufacturers can perform regression testing. First, the Metasploit Framework...

[Full-Disclosure] SoX buffer overflows when handling .WAV files

SoX buffer overflows when handling .WAV files I have found two buffer overflows in SoX. They occur when the sox or play commands handle malicious .WAV files. The overflows have the identifier CAN-2004-0557. Versions 12.17.4, 12.17.3 and 12.17.2 are vulnerable to these overflows. Vulnerable versio...

dnsPoison.cpp.txt

Symantec Enterprise Firewall dnsd proxy, versions 8 and later, is vulnerable to cache poisoning attacks when acting as a caching nameserver. Is possible to inject false entries in its cache and make a false DNS server look like authoritative of a zone, when it is not. Once this information is...

Symantec Enterprise Firewall DNSD cache poisoning Vulnerability

Symantec Enterprise Firewall dnsd proxy, versions 8 and later, is vulnerable to cache poisoning attacks when acting as a caching nameserver. Is possible to inject false entries in its cache and make a false DNS server look like authoritative of a zone, when it is not. Once this information is...

Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly display URLs

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly display the location of HTML documents. An attacker could exploit this behavior to mislead users into revealing sensitive information. Description Web browsers frequently display the Uniform Resource Locator URL in the address bar. Users expe...

RemotelyAnywhere - Default.HTML Logout Message Injection

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9202/info RemotelyAnywhere has been reported prone to a logout message injection weakness. It has been reported that this issue presents itself due to a lack of sufficient restrictions performed by RemotelyAnywhere on user supplied 'reason' URI parameters...

CVE-2002-0321

Yahoo! Messenger 5.0 allows remote attackers to spoof other users by modifying the username and using the spoofed username for social engineering or denial of service flooding attacks...

xchat IRC session hijacking vulnerability (versions 1.4.1, 1.4.2)

========================================================================== ======= xchat 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 IRC session hijacking vulnerability ======== ========================================================================== It is possible to trick xchat IRC clients 1.4.2, 1.4.3 into sending...

X-Chat 1.x - CTCP Ping Remote IRC Command Execution

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3830/info X-Chat is a graphical client for IRC. It requires the GTK+ toolkit, and is available for many Linux and Unix operating systems. If a CTCP ping request includes escaped newline characters and additional IRC commands, these commands may be execute...

Brian Dorricott MAILTO 1.0.7-9 - Unauthorized Mail Server Use

Brian Dorricott MAILTO 1.0.7-9 - Unauthorized Mail Server Use source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3669/info MAILTO is a program maintained by Brian Dorricott. It enables web servers to allow forms to be converted into mail messages that can be sent to numerous recipients. An issue exists in...