Threat Roundup for September 7 to September 14

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed this week — covering the dates between Sept. 7 and 14. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats we’ve observed by...

Russian Cybercriminal Pleads Guilty to Operating Kelihos Botnet

By Uzair Amir A Russian national namely Peter Yuryeich Levashov has pleaded guilty to operating the Kelihos botnet, which was used to launch a huge spamming and credential stealing campaign across the globe. Levashov, a 38-year old resident of St. Petersburg, Russia, was presented before a...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Cross Site Scripting (XSS) – Reflected

Reflected Cross-site Scripting XSS occur when an attacker injects browser executable code within a single HTTP response.When a web application is vulnerable to this type of attack, it will pass unvalidated input sent through requests back to the client. The value of request parameter is copied in...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Creme CRM 1.6.12. The value of the cancel button uses the content of the HTTP Referer header, and could be used to trick a user into visiting a fake login page in order to steal credentials...

Airmail 3 Exploit Instantly Steals Info from Apple Users

Severe vulnerabilities in the Airmail 3 software – an alternative to Apple Mail for MacOS – would allow a remote attacker to steal a user’s past emails and file attachments, in many cases without requiring user interaction beyond simply opening a weaponized message, researchers said. Security...

Canadian Telcos Patch an APT-Ready Flaw in Disability Services

Canadian telcos have patched a widespread local file-disclosure flaw in disability services that allow people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disorder to place calls through a text telephone or other assistive devices. The vulnerability opens the door for widespread attacks on...

CVE-2018-1000642

FlightAirMap version =v1.0-beta.21 contains a Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in GET variable used within registration sub menu page that can result in unauthorised actions and access to data, stealing session information. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 22b09...

Vanilla: XSS: Group search terms

Summary: The sub domain https://kentico.vanillastaging.com has a DOM XSS can be executed on any user browser by a simple get request. Description: The search param in the get request has been set in it's text value and the response has been reflected in the DOM response. Request: GET...

See how I found the Yahoo XSSi vulnerability to achieve the user information stealing-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Find some specific categories of vulnerability is composed of two key parts, that is the vulnerability the cognitive as well as mining the degree of difficulty. Cross-site script contains a vulnerabilityXSSi in a recognized security standards OWASP TOP 10 and is not mentioned, but it is also no...

Phishing, Part 1: On the Lookout

Cybersecurity has gone mainstream, thanks in part to the hacking of the 2016 Presidential election. But how many of us know how the attackers in this case actually achieved their ends? The truth is, that one of the oldest, but most effective weapons in the cybercriminal’s arsenal, undoubtedly use...

Highly Sophisticated Parasite RAT Emerges on the Dark Web

Researchers are tracking a remote access trojan RAT on underground markets that, so far, has only been attributed to one small malicious email campaign. However, the RAT, dubbed Parasite HTTP by the Proofpoint researchers that discovered it, has an impressive list of sophisticated features –...

Hawkeye Keylogger – Reborn v8: An in-depth campaign analysis

Much of cybercrime today is fueled by underground markets where malware and cybercriminal services are available for purchase. These markets in the deep web commoditize malware operations. Even novice cybercriminals can buy malware toolkits and other services they might need for malware campaigns...

Cross site scripting

An issue was discovered in Jirafeau before 3.4.1. The "search file by link" form is affected by reflected XSS that could allow, by targeting an administrator, stealing a session and gaining administrative privileges...

Smoking Guns - Smoke Loader learned new tricks

This post is authored by Ben Baker and Holger Unterbrink Overview Cisco Talos has been tracking a new version of Smoke Loader — a malicious application that can be used to load other malware — for the past several months following an alert from Cisco Advanced Malware Protection’s AMP Exploit...

Malicious App Infects 60,000 Android Devices – But Still Saves Their Batteries

UPDATE A battery-saving app that also allows attackers to snatch text messages and read sensitive log data has been downloaded by more than 60,000 Android devices so far. But what’s unique about the attack, according to the researchers at RiskIQ who discovered it, is that it holds true to its...

In Russia for World Cup? Beware of fake WiFi hotspots stealing user data

By Uzair Amir The Football World Cup 2018 has gathered thousands of fans This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: In Russia for World Cup? Beware of fake WiFi hotspots stealing user data...

Malicious Typo-Squatting

cross-env.js is a malicious typo-squatter package. The package uses a similar name to the original library so that developers may mistake it for the real one but have malicious actions under the hood such as stealing environment variables...

Malicious Typo-Squatting

nodesass is a malicious typo-squatting package. The package uses a similar name to the original library so that developers may mistake it for the real one but have malicious actions under the hood such as stealing environment variables...

Malicious Typo-Squatting

smb is a malicious typo-squatting package. The package uses a similar name to the original library so that developers may mistake it for the real one but have malicious actions under the hood such as stealing environment variables...

Malicious Typo-Squatting

shadowsock is a malicious typo-squatting package. The package uses a similar name to the original library so that developers may mistake it for the real one but have malicious actions under the hood such as stealing environment variables...