Tiny Island Atoll’s Domain Used in Widespread Ad Fraud

A scam campaign involving “.tk” domains has been active since at least May 2018, redirecting unsuspecting users to fake blogger sites that are collectively bringing in close to $22,000 per month in advertising revenue. The same actors have also been spotted running a tech-support scam in tandem,...

Jon Kyl Will Take McCain's Senate Seat

The governor of Arizona announced Tuesday that Jon Kyl will replace the Senate seat vacated by the late John McCain. He may now further push to regulate tech giants like Facebook...

Following Facebook and Twitter, Google Targets Iranian Influence Operation

In the wake of influence-campaign takedowns by Facebook and Twitter, Google has issued a report detailing its own efforts to root out foreign influence operatives allegedly tied to an Iranian state-run media broadcaster. The news comes as President Donald Trump appeared to tweet in opposition to...

Side-Channel PoC Attack Lifts Private RSA Keys from Mobile Phones

Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept side-channel attack that allows them to pull encryption keys from a single decryption for a modern version of OpenSSL. The attack impacts mobile devices — without physical access to the handsets. A group of researchers at Georgia Tech were able to...

New Report on Police Digital Forensics Techniques

According to a new CSIS report, "going dark" is not the most pressing problem facing law enforcement in the age of digital data: Over the past year, we conducted a series of interviews with federal, state, and local law enforcement officials, attorneys, service providers, and civil society groups...

Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Android Apps From the Play Store

Following Apple's lead in banning cryptocurrency mining apps, Google has also updated its Play Store policy this week to ban apps that mine cryptocurrencies on users' devices in the background. However, there are countless cryptocurrency mining apps, including MinerGate, AA Miner, NeoNeonMiner, a...

Introducing: Malwarebytes Browser Extension

Are you tired of all the unwanted content the world wide web offers up, whether you like it or not? It is our privilege to introduce you to the Malwarebytes Browser Extension BETA. Or, better said, the Malwarebytes Browser Extensions, because we have one for Firefox and one for Chrome. Introducti...

Cisco SD-WAN Solution Remote File Overwrite Vulnerability

Cisco vBond Orchestrator Software are products of Cisco. vBond Orchestrator Software is a set of security network extension management software. vEdge 100 Series Routers is a 100 series router product. SD-WAN Solution is a set of network extension solutions running on it. A remote file overwrite...

CVE-2018-0349

A vulnerability in the Cisco SD-WAN Solution could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the underlying operating system of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of the request admin-tech command in the CLI of the affected...

CVE-2018-0349

A vulnerability in the Cisco SD-WAN Solution could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the underlying operating system of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of the request admin-tech command in the CLI of the affected...

FTC Issues Alert on Tech Support Scams

The Federal Trade Commission has released an alert on tech support scams. Scammers use pop-up messages, websites, emails, and phone calls to entice users to pay for fraudulent tech support services to repair problems that don’t exist. Users should not pay or give control of their devices to any...

CVE-2016-6547

The Zizai Tech Nut mobile app stores the account password used to authenticate to the cloud API in cleartext in the cache.db file...

CVE-2016-6548

The Zizai Tech Nut mobile app makes requests via HTTP instead of HTTPS. These requests contain the user's authenticated session token with the URL. An attacker can capture these requests and reuse the session token to gain full access the user's account...

Code injection

The Zizai Tech Nut device allows unauthenticated Bluetooth pairing, which enables unauthenticated connected applications to write data to the device name attribute...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Zizai Tech Nut mobile app stores the account password used to authenticate to the cloud API in cleartext in the cache.db file...

CVE-2016-6549

The Zizai Tech Nut device allows unauthenticated Bluetooth pairing, which enables unauthenticated connected applications to write data to the device name attribute...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Zizai Tech Nut mobile app makes requests via HTTP instead of HTTPS. These requests contain the user's authenticated session token with the URL. An attacker can capture these requests and reuse the session token to gain full access the user's account...

CVE-2016-6549

The CVE-2016-6549 entry concerns the Zizai Tech Nut device, where unauthenticated Bluetooth pairing enables unauthenticated connected applications to write data to the device name attribute. Affected component is the Nut device’s Bluetooth pairing/authentication logic, with impact limited to mani...

CVE-2016-6547 Zizai Tech Nut stores the account password in cleartext

The Zizai Tech Nut mobile app stores the account password used to authenticate to the cloud API in cleartext in the cache.db file...

CVE-2016-6548 Zizai Tech Nut mobile application makes requests using HTTP, which includes the users session token

The Zizai Tech Nut mobile app makes requests via HTTP instead of HTTPS. These requests contain the user's authenticated session token with the URL. An attacker can capture these requests and reuse the session token to gain full access the user's account...