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Malware Can Bypass Chrome Extension Security Feature Easily
Researchers have uncovered a new social engineering trick that leads users to a malicious extension from Google Chrome impersonating to deliver Adobe’s Flash Player in order to lure victims in a click fraud campaign. Security experts at TrendMicro believe that the malware is triggered by opening...
Fake AV Defru Puts New Spin on Rogue AV
Rogue antivirus was once the scourge of the Internet, and while this sort of malware is not entirely extinct, it’s fallen out of favor among criminals as users have become more aware and security products have gotten better at blocking the threat. Image via TechNet However, Daniel Chipiristeanu, ...
Pro-Syrian Malware Increasing in Number, Complexity
As the civil war in Syria continues, malware targeting those who oppose the embattled regime of Bashar al Assad is increasing in number, organization and sophistication according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team. Most of the malware samples related to the...
Study: Uyghur Remain in Crosshairs of Targeted Attacks
It’s no secret that activists groups supporting the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities living either in exile or in oppressed nations have been in the crosshairs of targeted attacks for years. Regimes use phishing emails, other social engineering tactics, and drive-by downloads to infect computer...
Epic Operation Kicks Off Multistage Turla APT Campaign
The Turla APT campaign has baffled researchers for months as to how its victims are compromised. Peaking during the first two months of the year, Turla has targeted municipal governments, embassies, militaries and other high-value targets worldwide, with particular concentrations in the Middle Ea...
Book — Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security
If we talk about old days, a hacker often rely on the natural helpfulness as well as weaknesses of people whom he wanted to target. This tactic to break into a computer network by gaining the confidence of an authorized user and get them to reveal information that compromises the network's securi...
Call Center Phone Fraud for Fun at Profit at Black Hat
Reconnaissance in the context of targeted attacks usually involves scouring freely available online resources such as social media and developer forums. Personal information willfully posted to these sites are clues a hacker can use to build a profile on a target, map systems and network...
Facebook Self-XSS Scam Fools Users into Hacking Themselves
Scammers have again targeted more than one billion active users of the popular social networking giant Facebook, to infect as many victims as possible. Not by serving fake post, neither by providing malicious video link, instead this time scammers have used a new way of tricking Facebook users in...
Information disclosure in the REST API
Jira reports the 404 not-found earlier than the 401 not-authorized. This discloses the non-existence of a specific issue numbers to unauthorized users. While this isn't a huge leak, this could come in useful with social engineering. Proof of concept: Both of the calls below are unauthenticated, a...
Information disclosure in the REST API
Jira reports the 404 not-found earlier than the 401 not-authorized. This discloses the non-existence of a specific issue numbers to unauthorized users. While this isn't a huge leak, this could come in useful with social engineering. Proof of concept: Both of the calls below are unauthenticated, a...
Facebook Carries Out Lecpetex Botnet Takedown
Facebook has moved slowly and deliberately into the realm of botnet takedowns by disrupting a relatively small operation in Greece that was using the social platform to spread spam and malware. Two arrests were made in connection with the Lecpetex botnet in Greece on July 3. The alleged botmaster...
Facebook Takes Down Bitcoin Stealing Botnet that Infected 250,000 Computers
Once again Facebook is on The Hacker News! This time not for any scam or surveillance, but for a different reason. The social networking giant has managed to take down a Greek botnet that used Facebook to spread malware and infected 250,000 computers to mine crypto-currencies, steal bitcoins, ema...
NetBSD 1.x TalkD User Validation Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4419/info talkd is a client-server application shipped with many Unix and Linux variants that is used for communication between users locally or remotely. talkd does not perform adequate validation of users making talk...
PHPmotion <= 2.1 CSRF Vulnerability
No description provided by source. PHPmotion = 2.1 CSRF vulnerability Author: Ausome1 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.enigmagroup.org Description: Change a member's password and/or email...
Olicom XLT-F XL 80 IM V5.5BL2 - Undocumented Community String Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2802/info Olicom routers were previously manufactured and distributed by Olicom, a company now owned by Intel. Olicom routers provide a low-cost routing solution for small businesses. A problem with Olicom routers could...
IceWarp Merak Mail Server 9.4.1 'Forgot Password' Input Validation Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34827/info IceWarp Merak Mail Server is prone to an input-validation vulnerability because it uses client-supplied data when performing a 'Forgot Password' function. Attackers can exploit this issue via social-engineering...
Invision Power Board 2.x - 'Signature' iFrame Security Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28466/info Invision Power Board IP.Board is prone to a security vulnerability that can aid attackers in social-engineering attacks. Attacker-supplied script code could exploit vulnerabilities in the user's browser or give...
X-Chat 1.x CTCP Ping Arbitrary Remote IRC Command Execution Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://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...
xtell 2.6.1 User Status Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4196/info xtell is a simple network messaging program. It may be used to transmit terminal messages between users and machines. xtell is available for Linux, BSD and most other Unix based operating systems. An information...
Internet Explorer 'winhlp32.exe' 'MsgBox()' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
No description provided by source. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code execution vulnerability. Source iSEC Security Research: http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities10.html Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application...