Lessons From Top-to-Bottom Compromise of Brazilian Bank

SINT MAARTEN—For three months starting last October, hackers pulled off a stunning compromise of a Brazilian bank’s operations top-to-bottom. The attack was comprehensive with each of the bank’s 36 domains, corporate email and DNS under the attacker’s control. Once Kaspersky Lab researchers Fabio...

Instagram Adds Two-Factor Authentication

Instagram became the latest in a long line of services over the years to offer users two-factor authentication this week. Kevin Systrom, co-founder and CEO of the Facebook-owned mobile photo-sharing app announced the feature on its blog Thursday afternoon. With the feature – accessible via Settin...

Google, Jigsaw Partner on Free Tools to Secure Elections

Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw announced on Tuesday that it and Google would offer a free suite of security tools aimed at securing political elections. The announcement was fresh off a tense House Intelligence Committee meeting on Monday during which FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the burea...

Hackers Using Fake Cellphone Towers to Spread Android Banking Trojan

Chinese Hackers have taken Smishing attack to the next level, using rogue cell phone towers to distribute Android banking malware via spoofed SMS messages. SMiShing — phishing attacks sent via SMS — is a type of attack wherein fraudsters use number spoofing attack to send convincing bogus message...

Trello: Rate limiting of incorrect Two Factor Authentication codes not enforced

Trello has a feature which allows the user to enable Two factor authentication to enhance the security. But no Rate Limiting is present on second authentication, i.e. code sent to Registered Mobile Number. Attacker can try as many attempts as he wants to bypass the 2 factor authentication. So usi...

Valve Patches Trivial XSS Bug in Steam

Valve Corp., has patched a cross-site scripting vulnerability on its popular Steam gaming platform that could be exploited by viewing a maliciously crafted profile. The flaw could allow an attacker to carry out phishing attacks or execute malicious scripts just by opening a crafted profile page. ...

Grab: Two-factor authentication bypass on Grab Android App

Description I found the endpoint using android app https://p.grabtaxi.com/api/passenger/v2/profiles/edit which allow me to bypass 2FA sms code due to lack of rate limiting\code expiration after unsuccessful attempts. The root cause of the problem it that facts: no rate limiting+ no code expiratio...

Facebook Tackles Account Recovery with Delegated Recovery Protocol

Account recovery, the second fiddle to authentication, still largely hinges on insecure schemes such as security questions or email-based verification for password resets and the like. Facebook today at the Enigma Conference in Oakland, Calif., offered a more modern solution called Delegated...

Facebook Adds FIDO U2F Security Keys Feature For Secure Logins

Hacking password for a Facebook account is not easy, but also not impossible. We have always been advising you to enable two-factor authentication — or 2FA — to secure your online accounts, a process that requires users to manually enter, typically a six-digit secret code generated by an...

Facebook Touts 'Safer' Security Key Login

Facebook is giving privacy-minded users looking to fortify their accounts yet another layer of security. Brad Hill, a security engineer with the social network, announced on Facebook’s Security page on Thursday that effective immediately, it would let users tie a physical security key to their...

iPhone Secretly Sends Your Call History to Apple Even If iCloud Backups are Turned Off

In the fight against encryption, Apple has positioned itself as a staunch defender of its user privacy by refusing the federal officials to provide encryption backdoors into its products, as well as implementing better encryption for its products. However, a new report from a security firm sugges...

OWA and Offic365 two-factor authentication bypass-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Foreword Full disclosure: the BLACK HILLS information security very much in favor of responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities. 2 0 1 6 9 2 8, I to Microsoft reported this vulnerability, may have been to this article publishing 2016.11.2, Microsoft for this vulnerability is always without any...

Phony Android Flash Player Installs Banking Malware

Security researchers warn that a bogus Flash Player app aimed at Android mobile devices has surfaced and is luring victims to download and install banking malware that steals credit card information and can defeat two-factor identification schemes. Wells Fargo, Discovery Financial and Chase...

InTerCyber company in the message in the system discovered a serious vulnerability-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to foreign media the latest report, information security company InTheCyber Security Studies experts discovered a serious vulnerability, this vulnerability or can affect the message system security. Note that this vulnerability using the method is not difficult, an attacker can easily...

Joomla Update Fixes Two Critical Issues, 2FA Error

Web developers who run the content management system Joomla! are strongly encouraged to update their sites immediately. The company on Tuesday pushed out the most recent version of the CMS, 3.6.4, fixing two critical issues that can lead to account creation and elevated privileges, according to a...

King Phisher 1.5.2 - Phishing Campaign Toolkit

King Phisher is a tool for testing and promoting user awareness by simulating real world phishing attacks. It features an easy to use, yet very flexible architecture allowing full control over both emails and server content. King Phisher can be used to run campaigns ranging from simple awareness...

iCloud Phishing Campaign Zycode Back From the Dead

A phishing campaign aimed at Chinese Apple users that was thought to be in hibernation has been roused from its slumber. Researchers in June spotted the campaign, dubbed Zycode, targeting Apple iCloud users. A rash of suspended domains that month led to a lull for the campaign however; researcher...

Rotten Apples: Resurgence

In June 2016, we published a blog about a phishing campaign targeting the Apple IDs and passwords of Chinese Apple users that emerged in the first quarter of 2016 referred to as the “Zycode” phishing campaign. At FireEye Labs we have an automated system designed to proactively detect newly...

Rotten Apples: Resurgence

In June 2016, we published a blog about a phishing campaign targeting the Apple IDs and passwords of Chinese Apple users that emerged in the first quarter of 2016 referred to as the “Zycode” phishing campaign. At FireEye Labs we have an automated system designed to proactively detect newly...

SWIFT Warns Banks Of More Cyberattacks

Reports of additional attacks against banks that use SWIFT, the global financial transaction messaging network, came to light Wednesday. The attacks were reportedly persistent, sophisticated and in some cases successful, impacting an undisclosed number of financial institutions. It’s the latest...