‘Fleeceware’ Apps Downloaded 600M Times from Google Play

Google has made a concerted effort in recent months to try to eliminate bad apps for its Android mobile platform on the Google Play store—something the company historically has battled. However, fleeceware apps—which trick users into paying excessive amounts of money for simple apps with...

Akamai Improves Global Delivery Performance

As part of Akamai's ongoing investments in improving delivery performance, last month we completed the worldwide deployment of the Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT BBR TCP congestion control algorithm across our Edge Platform. The BBR algorithm is designed to help improve the reliability and resilien...

A week in security (November 4 – November 10)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we announced the launch of Malwarebytes 4.0, tackled data privacy legislation, and explored some of the ways robocalls come gunning for your data and your money. We also laid out the steps involved in popular vendor email compromise attacks. Other cybersecurity new...

BlueKeep Attacks Observed Months after Initial Release

The BlueKeep vulnerability, initially released in May 2019, is currently being exploited in the wild. Cybersecurity researchers have spotted initial attacks of Bluekeep RDP vulnerability. Here's a reminder about BlueKeep and instructions for using Qualys to identify attacks and remediate this...

Tips to Accelerating PCI Data Security Standard Projects with Deep Security as a Service

Does your organization need to meet PCI DSS requirements? Are you struggling with multiple security tools? Or stretching your already overstretched team to prepare for an audit? Time to hit the accelerator with Trend Micro! If your applications deal with credit or payment card data, you need to g...

Cynet's Vulnerability Assessment Enables Organizations to Dramatically Reduce their Risk Exposure

Protection from cyberattacks begins way before attackers launch their weapons on an organization. Continuously monitoring the environment for security weaknesses and addressing such, if found, is a proven way to provide organizations with immunity to a large portion of attacks. Among the common...

McAfee Total Protection MTP Free Antivirus Trial Code Issue Vulnerability

McAfee Total Protection MTP is a suite of antivirus software from McAfee, Inc.MTP Free Antivirus Trial is its free trial version. A code issue vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows client in McAfee Total Protection MTP Free Antivirus Trial 16.0.R18 and prior versions. An attacker could...

CVE-2019-3646 McAfee Total Protection - Free Antivirus Trial: DLL Search Order Hijacking vulnerability

DLL Search Order Hijacking vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client in McAfee Total Protection MTP Free Antivirus Trial 16.0.R18 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via execution from a compromised folder placed by an attacker with administrator rights...

Priceline: Account takeover via Google OneTap

Summary: It's possible to take over any priceline.com user's account knowing their email. The only requirement is that the victim's email domain is not registered with Google's Gsuite. The root cause of this issue is that the backend does not verify whether the email provided is a confirmed one...

CVE-2019-10263

An issue was discovered in Ahsay Cloud Backup Suite before 8.1.1.50. When creating a trial account, it is possible to inject XSS in the Alias field, allowing the attacker to retrieve the admin's cookie and take over the account...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Ahsay Cloud Backup Suite before 8.1.1.50. When creating a trial account, it is possible to inject XSS in the Alias field, allowing the attacker to retrieve the admin's cookie and take over the account...

Ahsay Backup 7.x - 8.1.1.50 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Ahsay Backup 7.x - 8.1.1.50 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload Remote Code Execution Metasploit Exploit Title: Authenticated insecure file upload and code execution flaw in Ahsay Backup v7.x - v8.1.1.50. Metasploit Date: 26-6-2019 Exploit Author: Wietse Boonstra Vendor Homepage:...

Ahsay Backup 7.x - 8.1.1.50 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload / Remote Code Execution Exploit (2

Exploit for jsp platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Authenticated insecure file upload and code execution flaw in Ahsay Backup v7.x - v8.1.1.50. Metasploit Date: 26-6-2019 Exploit Author: Wietse Boonstra Vendor Homepage: https://ahsay.com Software Link:...

Ahsay Backup 7.x - 8.1.1.50 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload / Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Exploit Title: Authenticated insecure file upload and code execution flaw in Ahsay Backup v7.x - v8.1.1.50. Metasploit Date: 26-6-2019 Exploit Author: Wietse Boonstra Vendor Homepage: https://ahsay.com Software Link: http://ahsay-dn.ahsay.com/v8/81150/cbs-win.exe Version: 7.x 'Ahsay Backup...

HackerOne: Custom Field Attributes may be created and updated for customers with Custom Field Trial enabled

The Custom Field feature is currently only available for customers on the Enterprise product edition. A trial period can be given by enabling the custom-fields-trial feature for programs who are not on that product edition yet. However, when enabling this feature, the incorrect ordering of an ACL...

Google Chrome 73.0.3683.103 - WasmMemoryObject::Grow Use-After-Free Exploit

Google Chrome 73.0.3683.103 - WasmMemoryObject::Grow Use-After-Free Exploit memoryobject, uint32t pages ... Handle newbuffer; if oldbuffer-isshared // Adjust protections for the buffer. if !AdjustBufferPermissionsisolate, oldbuffer, newsize return -1; void backingstore = oldbuffer-backingstore; i...

Google Chrome WasmMemoryObject::Grow Use-After-Free

Chrome: Use-after-free in WasmMemoryObject::Grow VULNERABILITY DETAILS https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/v8/src/wasm/wasm-objects.cc?rcl=783343158eb1b147df7e6669f1d03c690c878e21&l=1253 int32t WasmMemoryObject::GrowIsolate isolate, Handle memoryobject, uint32t pages ... Handle newbuffer; if...

Do DDoS attacks originate from Cloud Service Providers?

In a word, yes. Cloud service providers CSPs continue to power a growing portion of the greater Internet. According to Cisco, by 2021, 73 percent of cloud workloads are going to be CSP based, which reflects a compound annual growth rate of 27.5 percent from 2016 to 2021. Unfortunately, CSPs are...

Cynet: An Autonomous Security Platform for Any Size Organization

The Cynet security platform takes a different approach to traditional point security offerings, by providing a consolidated solution to all aspects of breach protection through a single interface. Unlike endpoint security solutions that only focus on particular types of threats targeting the...

Introducing New RUM-based Website Performance Benchmarks!

End users expect nothing short of a flawless experience when visiting your website. A slow-performing, error-prone website can lead to significant losses in revenue and brand value. Do you know how your website performs for real users compared to other similar sites? We are excited to tell you...