IC3 Issues Alert on Employment Scams

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert warning consumers of fake jobs and hiring scams targeting applicants’ personally identifiable information PII. Cyber criminals posing as legitimate employers spoof company websites and post fake job openings to lure victims. Cyber...

Stolen emails reflect Emotet's organic growth

By Jaeson Schultz Introduction Emotet has a penchant for stealing a victim's email, then impersonating that victim and sending copies of itself in reply. The malicious emails are delivered through a network of stolen outbound SMTP accounts. This relatively simple email-man-in-the-middle social...

GHSA-8J72-P2WM-6738 Persistent XSS vulnerability in filename of attached file in PrivateBin

On 24th of December 2019 one of the property based unit tests reported a failure. Upon investigation, @elrido discovered that the failure was due to unescaped HTML, which allowed the user provided attachment file name to inject HTML under certain conditions leading to a persistent Cross-site...

Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Windows Remote Desktop Client when a user connects to a malicious server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the computer of the connecting client. An attacker could then install programs;...

What the continued escalation of tensions in the Middle East means for security

Cisco Talos works with many organizations around the world, monitoring and protecting against sophisticated threats every day. As such, we are watching the current state of events in the Middle East very closely for our customers and partners who may be impacted by the ongoing situation. We are...

AppLocker Policy Bypass

Exploit Title: AppLocker 'Packaged App' Installation Policy Bypass Date: 2/1/20 Exploit Author: Social Engineering Neo - @EngineeringNeo Vendor Homepage: https://microsoft.com Software Link: N/A Version: Windows build 18363.535 and below. Tested on: Windows 10 build 17763.253, 18362.295, 18362.35...

CTFd 2.1.5 Administrator Account Takeover

Exploit Title: CTFd Administrator Account Takeover Date: 2/1/20 Exploit Author: Social Engineering Neo - @EngineeringNeo Vendor Homepage: https://ctfd.io Software Link: https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/releases/tag/2.1.5 Version: CTFd Local/Remote Hosting 2.1.5 and below Tested on: CTFd 2.1.5 CTFd...

A week in security (December 16 – 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we signalled that Mac threat detections have been on the rise in 2019, discussed how a new Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act COPRA would empower American users, warned that the Spelevo exploit kit debuts a new social engineering trick, and let our own Statler and...

WECON PLC Editor

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: WECON Equipment: PLC Editor Vulnerability: Stack-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute code under the privileges of the application. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS...

Reliable Controls MACH-ProWebCom/Sys

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.2 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Reliable Controls Equipment: MACH-ProWebCom/Sys Vulnerability: Cross-site Scripting 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute commands on behalf of the affected user...

Spelevo exploit kit debuts new social engineering trick

2019 has been a busy year for exploit kits, despite the fact that they haven't been considered a potent threat vector for years, especially on the consumer side. This time, we discovered the Spelevo exploit kit with its virtual pants down, attempting to capitalize on the popularity of adult...

Fake Elder Scrolls Online developers go phishing on PlayStation

A player of popular gaming title Elder Scrolls Online recently took to Reddit to warn users of a phish via Playstation messaging. This particular phishing attempt is notable for ramping up the pressure on recipients—a classic social engineering technique taken to the extreme. A terms of service...

Seeker v1.2.1 - Accurately Locate Smartphones Using Social Engineering

Concept behind Seeker is simple, just like we host phishing pages to get credentials why not host a fake page that requests your location like many popular location based websites. Read more on thewhiteh4t's Blog .Seeker Hosts a fake website on In Built PHP Server and uses Serveo to generate a li...

Analysis of LooCipher, a New Ransomware Family Observed This Year

ARCHIVED STORY Analysis of LooCipher, a New Ransomware Family Observed This Year By ATR Operational Intelligence Team · December 05, 2019 Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez. Initial Discovery This year seems to again be the year for ransomware. Notorious attacks were made using ransomware and new...

Navigating the Looming Threat of Nation-State Attacks

Nation-state attacks are sophisticated cyberthreats from adversaries working directly or indirectly for their own government. Their objectives might be to steal sensitive information, disrupt enemy capabilities, grow financial power through cryptocurrency, or even sway the international balance o...

Spear phishing campaigns—they’re sharper than you think

Even your most security-savvy users may have difficulty identifying honed spear phishing campaigns. Unlike traditional phishing campaigns that are blasted to a large email list in hopes that just one person will bite, advanced spear phishing campaigns are highly targeted and personal. They are so...

The snooping girl on a train, again. How to compromise a business

So, I’m on a train, again, sat at a four-seat table, next to two men facing each other. From their conversation and interactions I’ve concluded that they are colleagues. The chap to my left is clearly working on implementation plans for a building management system, for a company I know yeah, I g...

RevengeHotels: cybercrime targeting hotel front desks worldwide

RevengeHotels is a targeted cybercrime malware campaign against hotels, hostels, hospitality and tourism companies, mainly, but not exclusively, located in Brazil. We have confirmed more than 20 hotels that are victims of the group, located in eight states in Brazil, but also in other countries...

CVE-2019-17590

The csrfcallback function in the CSRF Magic library through 2016-03-27 is vulnerable to CSRF protection bypass as it allows one to tamper with the csrf token values. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious page and dispersing it to a victim via social engineering, enticing them...

CVE-2019-17590

The csrfcallback function in the CSRF Magic library through 2016-03-27 is vulnerable to CSRF protection bypass as it allows one to tamper with the csrf token values. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious page and dispersing it to a victim via social engineering, enticing them...