China Telecom's Smart Gateway Management Platform Has Information Leakage Vulnerabilities

China Telecom Group Corporation is a large state-owned communications enterprise in China, the global partner of Shanghai World Expo, and one of the world's top 500 enterprises for many years, mainly engaged in fixed-line telephony, mobile communications, satellite communications, Internet access...

A week in security (August 27 – September 2)

Last week, we looked at dubious antics in mobile land, a peculiar case of spam on the official Cardi B website, and we deep dived into fileless malware. We also explored the inner workings of Hidden Bee, and gave an explainer of Regex. Other cybersecurity news: Huge data breach affects Chinese...

Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Title: Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Scripting Author: Cakes Vendor: Vox Telecom Link: https://www.vox.co.za/ Firmware Version: 6.2.W.1 CVE: N/A Description Due to improper user iunput management low privilege users are able to creat...

Vox TG790 ADSL Router Cross Site Scripting

Title: Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Scripting Author: Cakes Exploit Date: 2018-08-01 Vendor: Vox Telecom Link: https://www.vox.co.za/ Firmware Version: 6.2.W.1 CVE: N/A Description Due to improper user iunput management low privilege users are able to create a persistent Cross-Site scriptin...

Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Scripting

Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Scripting Title: Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Scripting Author: Cakes Exploit Date: 2018-08-01 Vendor: Vox Telecom Link: https://www.vox.co.za/ Firmware Version: 6.2.W.1 CVE: N/A Description Due to improper user iunput management low privilege users are ab...

Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Scripting

Title: Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Scripting Author: Cakes Exploit Date: 2018-08-01 Vendor: Vox Telecom Link: https://www.vox.co.za/ Firmware Version: 6.2.W.1 CVE: N/A Description Due to improper user iunput management low privilege users are able to create a persistent Cross-Site scriptin...

Vox TG790 ADSL Router Cross Site Request Forgery

Title: Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Author: Cakes Exploit Date: 2018-08-01 Vendor: Vox Telecom Link: https://www.vox.co.za/ Firmware Version: 6.2.W.1 CVE: N/A Description Due to improper session management low privilege users are able to create administrator accoun...

T-Mobile Hacked — 2 Million Customers' Personal Data Stolen

T-Mobile today confirmed that the telecom giant suffered a security breach on its US servers on August 20 that may have resulted in the leak of "some" personal information of up to 2 million T-Mobile customers. The leaked information includes customers' name, billing zip code, phone number, email...

Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin) Vulnerability

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Title: Vox TG790 ADSL Router - Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Author: Cakes Vendor: Vox Telecom Link: https://www.vox.co.za/ Firmware Version: 6.2.W.1 Description Due to improper session management low privilege users are able to...

AdvisorsBot Downloader Emerges in Raft of Malware Campaigns

A new downloader was disclosed today, sporting significant anti-analysis features and increasingly sophisticated distribution techniques. Researchers at Proofpoint have been tracking the downloader as a first-stage payload in campaigns since May 2018. Dubbed AdvisorsBot due to early...

ThreatList: Telecom Sector Plagued with Advanced Malware

The telecom sector is being plagued with dangerous types of malware that can lead to significant loss of confidential or regulated data, a report has found. Lastline’s findings, published today, found that telecom sector threats are “ahead of the curve,” based on an analysis of threats to the...

Apple Transfers Chinese Users' iCloud Data to State-Controlled Data Centers

There's terrible news for Apple users in China. Apple's Chinese data center partner has transferred iCloud data, belonging to 130 million China-based users, to a cloud storage service managed by a state-owned mobile telecom provider—raising concerns about privacy. Back in February this year, Appl...

Apple Transfers Chinese Users' iCloud Data to State-Controlled Data Centers

There's terrible news for Apple users in China. Apple's Chinese data center partner has transferred iCloud data, belonging to 130 million China-based users, to a cloud storage service managed by a state-owned mobile telecom provider—raising concerns about privacy. Back in February this year, Appl...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11360

In Wireshark 2.6.0, 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, and 2.2.0 to 2.2.14, the GSM A DTAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gsmadtap.c by fixing an off-by-one error that caused a buffer overflow...

Logic Flaw Vulnerability in Guangdong Telecom's IPTV Converged Smart STB Z84

IPTV Converged Smart Set-Top Box is a set-top box device manufactured by Guangdong Telecom. A logic flaw vulnerability exists in Guangdong Telecom's IPTV Converged Smart STB Z84, where an attacker can log in to the backend with the initial password due to the password modification function not...

ISPs Caught Injecting Cryptocurrency Miners and Spyware In Some Countries

Governments in Turkey and Syria have been caught hijacking local internet users' connections to secretly inject surveillance malware, while the same mass interception technology has been found secretly injecting browser-based cryptocurrency mining scripts into users' web traffic in Egypt...

telecom-shop.ro XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-573484 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| telecom-shop.ro Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

This Week in Security News: Bank Robberies and Whaling

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, business leaders share their tips on keeping their companies safe, hackers stole from a Russian central bank, and Google reveals a new...

Hacker extracts customer data from Canadian Telecom Firm after rebuttal

By Waqas A hacker who found critical vulnerability in Canadian Freedom Mobile has This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker extracts customer data from Canadian Telecom Firm after rebuttal...

GTScan - The Nmap Scanner for Telco

The Nmap Scanner for Telco. With the current focus on telecom security, there used tools in day to day IT side penetration testing should be extended to telecom as well. From here came the motivation for an nmap-like scanner but for telco The current security interconnect security controls might...