Social media: A treasure trove of spam and scams

There are two kinds of spam associated with social media. There are spam ads that actually live on social media, and there is spam that comes in your inbox, courtesy of social media. Both thrive by using data from your social media accounts. But how do spammers know how to target you and send you...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

Private Message PHP Script 2.0 - Cross-Site Scripting

Private Message PHP Script 2.0 - Cross-Site Scripting Exploit Title: Private Message PHP Script 2.0 - Persistent Cross-Site scripting Date: 2018-05-20 Exploit Author: Borna nematzadeh L0RD Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/private-message-php-script/21027192?srank=1 Version: 2.0 Tested...

Phishing Spy Campaign Targets Top Mideast Officials

Researchers have discovered a phishing campaign that infected Android devices with custom surveillance-ware bent on extracting data from top officials, primarily in the Middle East. Researchers at Lookout Security told Threatpost that the tool, dubbed Stealth Mango, has been used to collect over ...

Valve: Malformed Skybox .TGA in Half-Life (GoldSRC) leads to Access Violation

A malformed .TGA when loaded as a Skybox on a map in a GoldSRC engine game Half-Life can lead to arbitrary code execution on a remote client. Reproduction Steps Load the attached map + resources on a local Half-Life listen server. The game will crash with an Access Violation as soon as the map wi...

Variant of SynAck Malware Adopts Doppelgänging Technique

Researchers have identified a new variant of the SynAck ransomware that is now using the newly identified Process Doppelgänging to slip past antivirus programs. Researchers said this is the first ransomware seen in the wild to employ the approach. Both SynAck ransomware and Process Doppelgänging...

CVE-2018-0286

A vulnerability in the netconf interface of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of malformed requests processed by the netconf process. An attacker could...

SamSam ransomware: what you need to know

SamSam ransomware is a custom infection used in targeted attacks, often deployed using a wide range of exploits or brute-force tactics. Based on our own run-ins with the infection, we've observed that attacks were made on targets via vulnerable JBoss host servers during a previous wave of SamSam...

The New Mobile Threat Landscape, circa 2017 to 2018

Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seeme...

CVE-2016-9094

Symantec Endpoint Protection clients place detected malware in quarantine as part of the intended product functionality. The quarantine logs can be exported for review by the user in a variety of formats including .CSV files. Prior to 14.0 MP1 and 12.1 RU6 MP7, the potential exists for file...

Operation Parliament, who is doing what?

Summary Kaspersky Lab has been tracking a series of attacks utilizing unknown malware since early 2017. The attacks appear to be geopolitically motivated and target high profile organizations. The objective of the attacks is clearly espionage – they involve gaining access to top legislative,...

Google Chrome WebGL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google, Inc. WebGL is one of the 3D drawing standards. A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in WebGL in versions prior to Google Chrome 65.0.3325.146, which stems from the program failing to properly perform boundary detection. A remote attacker...

Delta, Sears Breaches Blamed on Malware Attack Against a Third-Party Chat Service

Security researchers are pinning a recent data breach – that potentially exposed the credit card information of hundreds of thousands of Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings customers – on weak third-party security policies. The cyberattack hit software service provider 247.ai, a company that...

Hermes ransomware distributed to South Koreans via recent Flash zero-day

This blog post was authored by @hasherezade, Jérôme Segura and Vasilios Hioureas. At the end of January, the South Korean Emergency Response Team KrCERT published news of a Flash Player zero-day used in targeted attacks. The flaw, which exists in Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and below, was distributed...

MyCrypto: Missing SPF record for the in scope domain

nli@nlistation:$ dig mycrypto.com txt ; DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu mycrypto.com txt ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu gmail.com txt ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19223 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1,...

A Star Wars Analogy to Defend Against Non-Malware Attacks and the Dark Side

I like watching movies because I can relate almost anything in my real life to the movies I watched. Last week, I did a presentation at "Security Days Tokyo 2018," and I used Star Wars to describe the targeted attacks, non-malware attacks, AI-based, NGAV, etc. The Star Wars analogies were well...

Slack: HTML Injection inside Slack promotional emails

Hi, There's a HTML injection vulnerability present inside emails sent from slack when the FIRST name on the account contains HTML. The html is stored in the backend database and when emails are sent promotional, etc, the HTML is sent along with the rest of the email. In my PoC, which is provided...

Financial Cyberthreats in 2017

In 2017, we saw a number of changes to the world of financial threats and new actors emerging. As we have previously noted, fraud attacks in financial services have become increasingly account-centric. User data is a key enabler for large-scale fraud attacks, and frequent data breaches - among...

CannibalRAT targets Brazil

This post was authored by Warren Mercer and Vitor Ventura Introduction Talos has identified two different versions of a RAT, otherwise known as a remote access trojan, that has been written entirely in Python and is wrapped into a standalone executable. The RAT is impacting users of a Brazilian...

CVE-2018-0203

A vulnerability in the SMTP relay of Cisco Unity Connection could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send unsolicited email messages, aka a Mail Relay Vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of domain information in the affected software. An unauthenticated, remote...