FBI Warns Public Officials of Doxing Threat

The FBI has put law enforcement and high-profile public officials on notice that they could be targeted by hacktivists following the recent doxing of CIA director John Brennan by the hacktivism collective called Crackas With Attitude. Brennan’s AOL email account was taken over by a teen associate...

Snapchat: Password Reset - query param overrides postdata

Suppose a user were to reset their password at the following url with the given query parameters: https://accounts.snapchat.com/accounts/changepassword? newpassword=someNewPass&newpassword2=someNewPass Then regardless of the new password entered into the form, someNewPass becomes the user's new...

X (Formerly Twitter): Following a User Actually Follows Another User

I can display a web intent page to a victim that appears to prompt them to follow one user, but actually ends up following a completely different user when they click "follow". The following is a proof of concept:...

Social Engineering — Free Online Training for Hackers

For most of us Hacking is Technological in Nature. But, we usually forget the most important element of hacking that makes a successful hack from 10% to over 90%... ...The Human Element. And here the Social Engineering comes in. Social Engineering deals with non-technical kind of intrusion and...

High school Student Hacked Into CIA Director's Personal Email Account

A self-described teenage hacker has claimed to have hacked into personal AOL email account of Central Intelligence Agency CIA Director John Brennan and swiped sensitive top-secret data. It's Really a major embarrassment for Brennan as well as the CIA. The hacker, who describes himself as an...

SpeedPhishing Framework: SPF

This presentation will start by quickly exploring some of the common phishing attack tools and techniques. During the presentation, audience participation will be encouraged in the form of providing examples and personal experience in what phishing techniques people have used and what would be...

Palo Alto Networks Panorama PAN-OS < 6.0.1 Firmware Signature Verification Bypass Arbitrary Code Execution

The remote Panorama appliance is running a version of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS prior to 6.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by a firmware signature bypass vulnerability due to a flaw in signature verification process that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary Python code within an image file...

Aw, Snap! This 16-Character String Can Crash Your Google Chrome

Remember when it took only 13 characters to crash Chrome browser instantly? This time, it takes 16-character simple URL string of text to crash Google Chrome instantly. Yes, you can crash the latest version of Chrome browser with just a simple tiny URL. To do this, all you need to do is follow on...

Open Automation Software OPC Systems NET DLL Hijacking Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Ivan Sanchez from Nullcode Team has identified a DLL Hijacking vulnerability in Open Automation Software’s OPC Systems.NET application. Open Automation Software has reviewed the vulnerability and determined not to patch the issue at this time. This vulnerability could be exploited remote...

FBI Warns Businesses of Email Scams, Wire Fraud

U.S. businesses are losing millions in fraudulent wire transfers that have their root in email compromises of accounts belonging to top executives. An FBI advisory issued Thursday warns businesses that regularly conduct wire transfer payments to be vigilant about potential email account...

Geotweet - Social engineering tool for human hacking

Another way to use Twitter and instagram. Geotweet is an osint application that allows you to track tweets and instagram and trace geographical locations and then export to google maps. Allows you to search on tags, world zones and user info and timeline. Requirements Python 2.7 PyQt4, tweepy,...

SPF - SpeedPhish Framework

SPF SpeedPhish Framework is a python tool designed to allow for quick recon and deployment of simple social engineering phishing exercises. Requirements: dnspython twisted PhantomJS Usage: usage: spf.py -h -f -C --all --test -e -g -s --simulate -w -W -d -c --ip -v -y optional arguments: -h, --hel...

Change this Facebook Privacy Setting That Could Allow Hackers to Steal Your Identity

Facebook User: Who Can Find Me...? Hacker: Yes, I CAN!! A Security Researcher claimed “digi-crims could easily scan the population of an entire country to find targets”. Reza Moaiandin, technical director at Salt Agency, has figured out a way to exploit an important Facebook feature to gather...

Automate Security Audit: netool.sh

Netool is a toolkit written in bash, python and ruby and provides easy automation for frameworks like Nmap, Driftnet, Sslstrip, Metasploit and Ettercap – mostly MitM attacks. This toolkit makes tasks as SNIFFING tcp/udp traffic, Man-In-The-Middle attacks, SSL-sniff, DNS-spoofing, D0S attacks in...

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobilty Client Directory Traversal Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the connection establishment process of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to write or overwrite files in the active user's context. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An unauthenticated, remote attack...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID16934: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on July 24, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 40143 First Published: 2015 July 27 21:06 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID16934 and RuleID16934KVR may contain the followin...

SET v6.5 - The Social-Engineer Toolkit “Mr Robot”

The Social-Engineer Toolkit SET was created and written by the founder of TrustedSec. It is an open-source Python-driven tool aimed at penetration testing around Social-Engineering. SET has been presented at large-scale conferences including Blackhat, DerbyCon, Defcon, and ShmooCon. With over two...

Phishing Your Employees: Clever way to Promote Cyber Awareness

Employees are the weakest link when it comes to enterprise security, and unfortunately hackers realized this years ago. All an attacker needs to use some social engineering tactics against employees of companies and organizations they want to target. A massive 91% of successful data breaches at...

Shopify: Body injection in mailto link while commenting shop blog

While commenting shop blog an attacker can inject a body attribute in email so it will be interpreted by shop administrator email-client. Attacker can make the request below to send the malicious comment: http POST /blogs/news/18286141-first-post/comments HTTP/1.1 Host: test-4579.myshopify.com...

Встреча Defcon Moscow #9

3 июля, в пятницу, в офисе Mail.Ru Group состоится девятая встреча Defcon Moscow, которую организует группа DC7499. Defcon Moscow — это открытое и независимое сообщество технических энтузиастов, приближенных к области высоких технологий, а также информационной и технической безопасности. Программ...