no protection from sandwich attacks

Handle certora Vulnerability details the function joinTokenSingle has no protection from slippage and sandwich attacks. the balance after the swaps is not checked to have a minimum and the min amount in the swaps is set to zero: Impact malicious actors can front-run joinTokenSingle and perform a...

Hacker Jailed for Stealing Millions of Dollars in Cryptocurrencies by SIM Hijacking

A sixth member associated with an international hacking group known as The Community has been sentenced in connection with a multimillion-dollar SIM swapping conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ said. Garrett Endicott, 22, from the U.S. state of Missouri, who pleaded guilty to charges o...

User can bypass Recovery Mode via UniswapHandler to buy Malt

Handle gzeon Vulnerability details Impact One of the innovative feature of Malt is to block buying while under peg. The buy block can be bypassed by swapping to the whitelisted UniswapHandler, and then extract the token by abusing the add and remove liquidity function. This is considered a high...

Threat from Organized Cybercrime Syndicates Is Rising

From encrypting communications to fencing ill-gotten gains on underground sites, organized crime is cashing in on the digital revolution. The latest organized crime threat assessment from Europol issues a dire warning about the corrosive effect the rising influence of criminal syndicates is havin...

Twitter hacker charged in sim swapping, cryptocurrency scheme

By Waqas The 22-year-old British national Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, was one of the hackers behind 2020's massive Twitter hack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Twitter hacker charged in sim swapping, cryptocurrency scheme...

New U.S. Government Initiative Holds Contractors Accountable for Cybersecurity

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative that aims to hold contractors accountable for failing to meet required cybersecurity requirements in order to safeguard public sector information and infrastructure. "For too long, companies have chosen...

ConcentratedLiquidityPool: incorrect feeGrowthGlobal accounting when crossing ticks

Handle hickuphh3 Vulnerability details Impact Swap fees are taken from the output. Hence, if swapping token0 for token1 zeroForOne is true, then fees are taken in token1. We see this to be the case in the initialization of feeGrowthGlobal in the swap cache feeGrowthGlobal = zeroForOne ?...

Burning does not update reserves

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details The ConcentratedLiquidityPool.burn function sends out amount0/amount1 tokens but only updates the reserves by decreasing it by the fees of these amounts. unchecked // @audit decreases by fees only, not by amount0/amount1 reserve0 -= uint128amount0fees; reserve...

The FCC moves to curb SIM swap attacks

The Federal Communications Commission FCC is going to set new rules to curb the rising threat of SIM swapping, also known as SIMjacking. SIM swapping and the very similar port-out fraud is the unlawful use of someones personal information to steal their phone number and swap or transfer it to...

FCC Proposal Targets SIM Swapping, Port-Out Fraud

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which identity thieves hijack a targets mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victims online...

Europol nabs 106 criminals involved in SIM swapping, money laundering

By Waqas Europol said that the suspects carried out a number of cybercrimes included phishing, SIM Swapping, and BEC business email compromise. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Europol nabs 106 criminals involved in SIM swapping, money laundering...

Europol Breaks Open Extensive Mafia Cybercrime Ring

International law enforcement has busted up an extensive cybercrime operation run by a gang with ties to the Italian Mafia. The group allegedly used phishing attacks to defraud hundreds of victims. The suspects used various lures to convince victims mostly Italian nationals but also Spanish,...

Europol Busts Major Crime Ring, Arrests Over 100 Online Fraudsters

Law enforcement agencies in Italy and Spain have dismantled an organized crime group linked to the Italian Mafia that was involved in online fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking, and property crime, netting the gang about €10 million $11.7 million in illegal proceeds in just a year. "The...

The vulnerability of the `PackLinuxElf::canUnpack()` function in the `p_lx_elf.cpp` component of the UPX executable file unpacker, related to pointer swapping errors, allows a hacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failure.

The vulnerability of the PackLinuxElf::canUnpack function in the plxelf.cpp component of the UPX executable file unpacker is related to pointer swapping errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service...

Hacker pleads guilty to sim swapping, stealing cryptocurrency

By Deeba Ahmed A 21-year old hacker has admitted running a campaign over social media to hijack accounts of "high-value" account names and steal cryptocurrency. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker pleads guilty to sim swapping, stealing cryptocurrency...

Old yield source still has infinite approval

Handle tensors Vulnerability details Impact After swapping a yield source, the old yield source still has infinite approval. Infinite approval has been used in large attacks if the yield source isn't perfectly safe see furucombo. Proof of Concept Recommended Mitigation Steps Decrease approval aft...

PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk

Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" OConnor, in a photo from a paid press release on Sept. 02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. One day after last summers mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" OConnor appeared to...

The vulnerability of the Ceph storage system, related to pointer swapping errors, allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Ceph storage system is related to errors during the POST request with an invalid XML tag. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failures...

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors, related to pointer swapping errors, allows a perpetrator to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors is related to pointer arithmetic errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

How far have we come? The evolution of securing identities

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned,...