CVE-2017-5458

When a "javascript:" URL is drag and dropped by a user into the addressbar, the URL will be processed and executed. This allows for users to be socially engineered to execute an XSS attack on themselves. This vulnerability affects Firefox 53...

chromium-browser: Restrictions bypass in the debugger extension API

Insufficient target checks on the chrome.debugger API in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Chrome Extension...

Machine learning vs. social engineering

Machine learning is a key driver in the constant evolution of security technologies at Microsoft. Machine learning allows Microsoft 365 to scale next-gen protection capabilities and enhance cloud-based, real-time blocking of new and unknown threats. Just in the last few months, machine learning h...

Auth0 Glitch Allows Attackers to Launch Phishing Attacks

UPDATE Researchers are warning of a glitch in the Auth0 identity-as-a-service offering, which could allow bad actors to spoof a legitimate website and collect sensitive information from visitors. Researchers at Imperva on Tuesday found that the subdomain names of Auth0 are susceptible to security...

World Cup, Vacation Scams Lead in Phishing Trips this Summer

Summer is one of the traditional seasons of scamming, and this summer is shaping up to be a hot one on that front, with active campaigns swirling around supposed “security incidents,” vacation bookings and, of course, the World Cup. Scammers, for instance, recently targeted Booking.com customers...

Microsoft Windows 10 scrrun.dll Active-X Creation / Deletion Issues

Title: Windows 10 'scrrun.dll' Multiple vulnerabilities Author: Nassim Asrir Contact: [email protected] / https://www.linkedin.com/in/nassim-asrir-b73a57122/ Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/ Test ENV: ======== Browser : IE 11 OS: Windows 10 - x64 Details: ======== scrrun.dll...

CVE-2018-1432

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.1, 11.3, 11.5, and 11.7 is vulnerable to cross-frame scripting which is a vulnerability that allows an attacker to load Information Server components inside an HTML iframe tag on a malicious page. The attacker could use this weakness to devise a Clickjacking...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.1, 11.3, 11.5, and 11.7 is vulnerable to cross-frame scripting which is a vulnerability that allows an attacker to load Information Server components inside an HTML iframe tag on a malicious page. The attacker could use this weakness to devise a Clickjacking...

CVE-2018-1432

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.1, 11.3, 11.5, and 11.7 is vulnerable to cross-frame scripting which is a vulnerability that allows an attacker to load Information Server components inside an HTML iframe tag on a malicious page. The attacker could use this weakness to devise a Clickjacking...

Mozilla Firefox Design Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Live Bookmark page and PDF reader in versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to 60. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by performing a social...

CVE-2018-11632

An issue was discovered in the MULTIDOTS Add Social Share Messenger Buttons Whatsapp and Viber plugin 1.0.8 for WordPress. If an admin user can be tricked into visiting a crafted URL created by an attacker via spear phishing/social engineering, the attacker can change the plugin settings via...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

An issue was discovered in the MULTIDOTS Woo Checkout for Digital Goods plugin 2.1 for WordPress. If an admin user can be tricked into visiting a crafted URL created by an attacker via spear phishing/social engineering, the attacker can change the plugin settings. The function...

Brazilian Banking Trojan Communicates Via Microsoft SQL Server

Researchers have discovered a banking trojan making waves in Brazil with an array of tricks up its sleeve, including using an unusual command and control C&C server and a full-screen social-engineering overlay form. Researchers at IBM X-Force research on Tuesday revealed that attackers are using...

Node.js third-party modules: Privilage escalation with malicious .npmrc

Hello. I'm forwarding to you my conversation with npm staff regarding security issue. It allows to escalate to root privilages of victim using either: a basic social engineering - convincing victim to run npm in attacker-controlled folder eg. repository, including such innocent ones like "npm hel...

Despite Ringleader’s Arrest, Cobalt Group Still Active

Evidence has surfaced that the Cobalt Group – the threat actors behind widespread attacks on banks and ATM jackpotting campaigns across Europe – is continuing to operate, despite the arrest of its accused ringleader in March. The Cobalt Group, first burst on the scene in 2016: in a single night,...

Attackers Cashing In On Cryptocurrency With Increased Scams

As the popularity around cryptocurrency has continued to boom in 2018, it has also tempting target for cash-hungry scammers to launch “cryptocurrency giveaway scams.” Researchers at Proofpoint this week said they’ve observed a sharp rise in these scams, which target users of Ethereum and Bitcoin...

IRS Warns Tax Professionals of Phishing Scam

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has issued a news release warning tax professionals to beware of a new phishing email scam. Cyber criminals posing as state accounting and professional associations have been sending emails to entice their targets to reveal login credentials. Tax practitioners...

Shining a Light on OAuth Abuse with PwnAuth

Introduction Spear phishing attacks are seen as one of the biggest cyber threats to an organization. It only takes one employee to enter their credentials or run some malware for an entire organization to become compromised. As such, companies devote significant resources to preventing credential...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast for May 18

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss the week’s information security news, including some interesting new malware, a Linux patch that made waves, social engineering gambits and a major banking theft from the second-largest economy in Latin America...

Misconfigured Reverse Proxy Servers Spill Credentials

Researchers have created a proof-of-concept attack that allows unauthenticated adversaries to extract user credentials from misconfigured reverse proxy servers in order to delete, manipulate or extract data from websites and applications. The proof-of-concept PoC attack targets major cloud...