PilusCart 1.4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin) Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: PilusCart 1.4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Exploit Author: Gionathan "John" Reale Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/piluscart Software Link:...

PilusCart 1.4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin)

Exploit Title: PilusCart 1.4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Google Dork: N/A Date: 10-03-2019 Exploit Author: Gionathan "John" Reale Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/piluscart Software Link:...

Necurs Botnet Evolves to Hide in the Shadows, with New Payloads

Necurs, the prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware distribution botnet, has been spotted using a fresh hiding technique to avoid detection while quietly adding more bots to its web. According to research from Black Lotus Labs, which is telecom and ISP provider CenturyLink’s network...

19-Year-Old WinRAR Flaw Plagues 500 Million Users

Popular Windows data compression tool WinRAR has patched a serious 19-year-old security flaw that was discovered on its platform, potentially impacting 500 million users. The path-traversal vulnerability, which WinRAR fixed in January, could allow bad actors to remotely execute malicious code on...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Spear Phishing Targeting Italy

Summary This campaign is targeting users in Italy with spear phishing email containing malicious attachments. Figure 1: Emails with the malicious XLS attachment The image above show one of the sample has attached in multiple email that has been sent to email address with Italy ccTLD. The attached...

RogueRobin Malware Uses Google Drive as C2 Channel

A custom malware used by the APT known as DarkHydrus uses a mix of novel techniques, including using Google Drive as an alternate command-and-control C2 channel. According to Palo Alto’s Unit 42 intelligence division, the targeted attack involved spear-phishing emails written in Arabic sent to...

BEC Will Reach Two Levels Deeper

In our predictions report for 2019, “Mapping the Future: Dealing with Pervasive and Persistent Threats,” we foresaw an increase in the rate of BEC business email compromise attacks: “Business email compromise will go two levels down in the org chart.” From the report: | “Business email compromise...

Charming Kitten Iranian Espionage Campaign Thwarts 2FA

A range of political and civil society targets are under fire in an APT attack dubbed the Return of Charming Kitten. The campaign has been tailored to get around two-factor authentication in order to compromise email accounts and start monitoring communications. According to researchers at Certfa...

Real-Time Attacks Against Two-Factor Authentication

Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with...

New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Found Hidden Inside MS Office Docs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign appears to be attacking a Russian state health care institution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15982 , is a...

Adobe Flash Zero-Day Leveraged Via Office Docs in Campaign

An Adobe Flash Player zero-day exploit has been spotted in the wild as part of a widespread campaign, researchers said on Wednesday. Adobe has just issued a patch for the previously unknown critical flaw. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-15982, is a use-after-free flaw enabling arbitrary code executio...

Using the L.U.R.E. Method to Swim Free of Phishing Attacks

baitfish noun bait·​fish | \ˈbāt-ˌfish \ Definition of baitfish : a small fish such as a golden shiner or menhaden that attracts and is a food source for a larger game fish also : a fish used for bait Think about being in a school of fish for a second. Schools behave the way they do for a reason...

Analysis of cyberattack on U.S. think tanks, non-profits, public sector by unidentified attackers

Reuters recently reported a hacking campaign focused on a wide range of targets across the globe. In the days leading to the Reuters publication, Microsoft researchers were closely tracking the same campaign. Our sensors revealed that the campaign primarily targeted public sector institutions and...

Attack uses malicious InPage document and outdated VLC media player to give attackers backdoor access to targets

Our analysis of a targeted attack that used a language-specific word processor shows why its important to understand and protect against small-scale and localized attacks as well as broad-scale malware campaigns. The attack exploited a vulnerability in InPage, a word processor software for specif...

New APT Could Signal Reemergence of Notorious Comment Crew

A recently observed APT campaign, dubbed Operation Oceansalt, could herald the return of the infamous China-linked hacking group known as Comment Crew or APT1. Attacks are cunning and are defined by their their deep targeting and use of an innovative multi-wave attack methodology. Operation...

MuddyWater expands operations

Summary MuddyWater is a relatively new APT that surfaced in 2017. It has focused mainly on governmental targets in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to past telemetry. However, the group behind MuddyWater has been known to target other countries in the Middle East, Europe and the US. We recently...

APT10 Targeting Japanese Corporations Using Updated TTPs

Introduction In July 2018, FireEye devices detected and blocked what appears to be APT10 Menupass activity targeting the Japanese media sector. APT10 is a Chinese cyber espionage group that FireEye has tracked since 2009, and they have a history of targeting Japanese entities. In this campaign, t...

Active Spy Campaign Exploits Unpatched Windows Zero-Day

The recently discovered Windows zero-day – which still doesn’t have a patch – has been used in the wild for the last week, with an active info-stealing campaign emerging just two days after its disclosure on Twitter. The flaw is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Task...

3 Cybersecurity Takeaways from Ocean’s 8 (Note: Spoiler Alert!)

I love watching movies. A few days ago, I watched the movie "Ocean's 8" with my wife, and I found this movie was a perfect education material for the cyber security experts. Here are my 3 takeaways from the movie: 1 You think you are protected? Think again… Remember in the movie, the hacker "9-ba...

Cobalt Group Targets Banks in Eastern Europe with Double-Threat Tactic

The infamous financial cybercrime gang known as Cobalt Group has been spotted actively pushing a fresh campaign that uses a peculiar tactic: Double infection points and two command-and-control C2 servers. The Cobalt Group, a known financial cybercrime ring since 2016, has been suspected in attack...