US Sanctions 3 North Korean Hacking Groups Accused for Global Cyber Attacks

The United States Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions against three state-sponsored North Korean hacking groups for conducting several destructive cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure. Besides this, the hacking groups have also been accused of stealing possibly hundreds of...

DetExploit - Software That Detect Vulnerable Applications, Not-Installed OS Updates And Notify To User

DetExploit is software that detect vulnerable applications and not-installed important OS updates on the system, and notify them to user. As we know, most of cyberattacks uses vulnerability that is released out year before. I thought this is huge problem, and this kind of technology should be mor...

ICSA-19-253-03_Siemens Industrial Products (Update P)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: Industrial Products Vulnerabilities: Excessive Data Query Operations in a Large Data Table, Integer Overflow or Wraparound, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption 2. UPDATE INFORMATION...

An Unprecedented Cyberattack Hit the US Power Grid

Exposed Facebook phone numbers, an XKCD breach, and more of the week's top security news...

Unsecured database leaks phone numbers of 419 million Facebook users

By Sudais The unsecured database contained 133 million records from the US, 18 million in the UK and 50 million in Vietnam - All from Facebook users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Unsecured database leaks phone numbers of 419 million Facebook users...

CVE-2019-14261

An issue was discovered on ABUS Secvest FUAA50000 3.01.01 devices. Due to an insufficient implementation of jamming detection, an attacker is able to suppress correctly received RF messages sent between wireless peripheral components, e.g., wireless detectors or remote controls, and the ABUS...

CVE-2015-9369

Easy US Sales Taxes Add-on for iThemes Exchange before 1.1.0 for WordPress has XSS via addqueryarg and removequeryarg...

CVE-2015-9369

CVE-2015-9369 affects the WordPress plugin Easy US Sales Taxes Add-on for iThemes Exchange (before 1.1.0). The vulnerability is an XSS flaw triggered via the functions add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg(), enabling attacker-controlled client-side code execution in affected contexts. The root ca...

Ransomware continues assault against cities and businesses

Ransomware continues to make waves in the US, forcing multiple cities and organizations into tough choices. Pressed for cash and time, local government organizations are left with few options: Either pay the ransom as soon as possible and encourage criminals to continue bringing essential service...

Dow Jones Hammer - Protect The Cloud With The Power Of The cloud(AWS)

Dow Jones Hammer is a multi-account cloud security tool for AWS. It identifies misconfigurations and insecure data exposures within most popular AWS resources, across all regions and accounts. It has near real-time reporting capabilities e.g. JIRA, Slack to provide quick feedback to engineers and...

Lenovo Warns of ThinkPad Bugs, One Unpatched

Dozens of Lenovo’s flagship ThinkPad models are vulnerable to bugs ranging in severity from low to high. Two of the flaws are tied to industry-wide security bulletins, while a medium-severity flaw affects only Lenovo laptops but remains unpatched. The most severe of the three bugs is a...

DEF CON and Feds Partner on Anonymous Bug Submission Program

Hacking conference organizer DEF CON Communications said it plans to roll out a global anonymous bug submission platform based on the SecureDrop communications tool. During a session at DEF CON in Las Vegas last week, conference founder Jeff Moss said the goal was to launch the yet-to-be-named...

Trump’s Intel Vacancies Put Americans in Danger

Sue Gordon's departure is the latest sign that US national security might be stretching its leaders too thin—and risks putting the wrong people into roles that American lives depend upon...

A week in security (July 22 – 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered an extensive analysis into the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 investigation, updated users on the newest feature set to AdwCleaner 7.4.0 it now detects pre-installed software, and provided a deep dive into Phobos ransomware. We also broke down the latest...

WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchin aka MalwareTech won’t serve prison time

By Uzair Amir The British cyber security researcher and WannaCry ransomware hero Marcus Hutchin was initially facing up to 10 years in a US prison. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchin aka MalwareTech won't serve prison time...

Before Mueller’s Testimony, Dems Demand More Election Security

Senate Democrats want to remind everyone that US elections are still at risk, and Congress could do more to protect them...

The Marines’ New Drone-Killer Aces Its First Test in Iran

Last week’s US strike of an Iranian drone is the first reported successful use of the Marines’ new energy weapon...

Stored Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in the Us***.cl***.php File in the Frontend of the Feifei Movie and TV Navigation System

FeiFei Film and TV Navigation System FeiFeiCms is a free and open source PHP movie program. A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the Us.cl.php file in the frontend of FeiFeiCms. Attackers can insert malicious js code in the page to obtain user cookies and other information,...

US Journalist Detained When Returning to US

Pretty horrible story of a US journalist who had his computer and phone searched at the border when returning to the US from Mexico. After I gave him the password to my iPhone, Moncivias spent three hours reviewing hundreds of photos and videos and emails and calls and texts, including encrypted...

Cellular networks worldwide hit by hackers in espionage attempt

By Uzair Amir Cybereason, an Israeli-US security firm based in Boston, has reported that certain nation-state hackers managed to compromise the systems of no less than ten cellular carriers across the globe to steal metadata of specific users. Without naming anyone, the company claims that the...