Romanian Hackers Extradited to U.S. over $18M Vishing Scam

A pair of Romanian hackers have been extradited to the U.S. after allegedly bilking unwitting victims out of more than $18 million in an elaborate voice- and SMS-phishing i.e., vishing/smishing scheme. Teodor Laurentiu Costea and Robert Codrut Dumitrescu were named in the 31-count federal grand...

Code injection

NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager for Linux versions 7.2 though 7.3 ship with the Java Debug Wire Protocol JDWP enabled which allows unauthorized local attackers to execute arbitrary code...

Wire application for Android path traversal vulnerability

Wire application for Android is a cross-platform encrypted instant messaging application based on the Android platform. A path traversal vulnerability exists in versions of Wire application for Android based platforms prior to 2018-03-07. No detailed vulnerability details are provided at this tim...

CVE-2018-8909

The Wire application before 2018-03-07 for Android allows attackers to write to pathnames outside of the downloads directory via a ../ in a filename of a received file, related to AssetService.scala...

CVE-2018-8909

The Wire application before 2018-03-07 for Android allows attackers to write to pathnames outside of the downloads directory via a ../ in a filename of a received file, related to AssetService.scala...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Wire application before 2018-03-07 for Android allows attackers to write to pathnames outside of the downloads directory via a ../ in a filename of a received file, related to AssetService.scala...

CVE-2018-8909

The Wire application before 2018-03-07 for Android allows attackers to write to pathnames outside of the downloads directory via a ../ in a filename of a received file, related to AssetService.scala...

CVE-2018-8909

The Wire application before 2018-03-07 for Android allows attackers to write to pathnames outside of the downloads directory via a ../ in a filename of a received file, related to AssetService.scala...

CVE-2018-8909

CVE-2018-8909 affects the Wire app for Android prior to 2018-03-07, enabling a path traversal via a ../ in the filename of a received file (AssetService.scala) to write outside the downloads directory. This is described consistently across multiple sources (NVD/NVD mirror, Red Hat, Alpine Linux, ...

CVE-2018-8909

The Wire application before 2018-03-07 for Android allows attackers to write to pathnames outside of the downloads directory via a ../ in a filename of a received file, related to AssetService.scala...

FBI Warns Of Spike In W-2 Phishing Campaigns

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning businesses about a spike in phishing campaigns requesting W-2 information from payroll personnel. In a recent security advisory the FBI warned it has seen an increase since January in reports of compromised or spoofed emails involving W-2 forms. Thes...

New BEC Spam Campaign Targets Fortune 500 Businesses

Researchers have identified a wave of new business email compromise campaigns targeting Fortune 500 companies that are designed to trick victims into fraudulent wire transfers. Researchers said the campaigns originate from Nigeria and are targeting companies in the retail, healthcare and financia...

puppet: Unsafe YAML deserialization

Versions of Puppet prior to 4.10.1 will deserialize data off the wire from the agent to the server, in this case with a attacker-specified format. This could be used to force YAML deserialization in an unsafe manner, which would lead to remote code execution. This change constrains the format of...

Of princes and perpetrators: Beware of getting ensnared in 419 scams

We've mentioned before that 419 scams don't always originate from Nigeria. It's a very simple and popular scam that can be attempted by pretty much anyone with a flair for social engineering. Indeed, 419 scams are so associated with the region that many scammers in non-Nigerian countries know the...

A week in security (January 1 – January 7)

New year, new threats, as 2018 gets underway. On our blog, we had dubious searches aplenty for those hunting for Malwarebytes information, and we also covered the huge Meltdown/Spectre bug, affecting hardware going back to 10 years. Other news Coin miners are at it again, with a proof of concept...

CVE-2017-15535

A memory corruption flaw was found in the way MongoDB handled wire protocol compression for intra-cluster communication. A privileged network attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the MongoDB server under certain circumstances...

CVE-2017-15535

MongoDB 3.4.x before 3.4.10, and 3.5.x-development, has a disabled-by-default configuration setting, networkMessageCompressors aka wire protocol compression, which exposes a vulnerability when enabled that could be exploited by a malicious attacker to deny service or modify memory...

Design/Logic Flaw

MongoDB 3.4.x before 3.4.10, and 3.5.x-development, has a disabled-by-default configuration setting, networkMessageCompressors aka wire protocol compression, which exposes a vulnerability when enabled that could be exploited by a malicious attacker to deny service or modify memory...

CVE-2017-15535

MongoDB 3.4.x before 3.4.10, and 3.5.x-development, has a disabled-by-default configuration setting, networkMessageCompressors aka wire protocol compression, which exposes a vulnerability when enabled that could be exploited by a malicious attacker to deny service or modify memory...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15535

MongoDB 3.4.x before 3.4.10, and 3.5.x-development, has a disabled-by-default configuration setting, networkMessageCompressors aka wire protocol compression, which exposes a vulnerability when enabled that could be exploited by a malicious attacker to deny service or modify memory...