Operator of VirusTotal Like Malware-Scanning Service Jailed for 14 Years

A Latvian hacker behind the development and operation of counter antivirus service "Scan4You" has finally been sentenced to 14 years in prison. 37-year-old Ruslans Bondars, described as a Latvian "non-citizen" or "citizen of the former USSR who had been residing in Riga, Latvia," was found guilty...

Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Operating Kelihos Botnet

The Russian man who was accused of operating the infamous Kelihos botnet has finally pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court. Peter Yuryevich Levashov , 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. federal court in Connecticut to computer crime, wire fraud, conspiracy and...

CVE-2017-18347

Incorrect access control in RDP Level 1 on STMicroelectronics STM32F0 series devices allows physically present attackers to extract the device's protected firmware via a special sequence of Serial Wire Debug SWD commands because there is a race condition between full initialization of the SWD...

CVE-2017-18347

CVE-2017-18347 affects STMicroelectronics STM32F0 series devices; the root cause is a race condition between full SWD interface initialization and flash protection setup, enabling physically present attackers to extract protected firmware via a specific SWD command sequence on Level 1 RDP. The co...

CVE-2017-18347: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Incorrect access control in RDP Level 1 on STMicroelectronics STM32F0 series devices allows physically present attackers to extract the device's protected firmware via a special sequence of Serial Wire Debug SWD commands because there is a race condition between full initialization of the SWD...

PT-2018-6843

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: STMicroelectronics STM32F0 series devices affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to incorrect access control in RDP Level 1, which allows physically present attackers to extract the device's protected firmware via a...

ThreatList: 60% of BEC Attacks Fly Under the Radar

Up to 60 percent of business email compromise BEC attacks don’t involve a malicious link, making it more difficult for employees and email security systems to spot that something is amiss, a recent report found. Researchers at Barracuda, in a new study of 3,000 BEC attacks, found that most of the...

Updated mercurial packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides mercurial version 4.6.2 and fixes the following security issues: Fix the mpatchapply function in mpatch.c that incorrectly proceeds in cases where the fragment start is past the end of the original data CVE-2018-13346. Fix mpatch.c that mishandles integer addition and...

Tamper proofing review: the iZettle card payment terminal

Tamper resistance is an increasingly important factor in smart devices. Together with secure hardware design and defensive coding, it can deliver a very secure device. One of the most common areas the average consumer will encounter tamper resistant devices is in payment terminals, or Pin Entry...

Hardware reverse engineering. A tale from the workbench

In line with our previous work on the Tapplock, I decided to have some fun with some electronic locks and ordered a few from a large retail company. Half of these are currently en route to me, on the slowboat from China, but one arrived early. Before I state, let me just say here that I’m not...

How attackers are abusing high-profile users and executives

Email is the prime communication channel for businesses and their employees worldwide. In fact, last year saw more than 269 billion emails sent per day, and Radicati Group researchers predict that by 2021, this number will rise to more than 319 billion. With so much critical and sensitive...

FBI’s BEC Crackdown Leads To 74 Arrests Globally

The FBI announced Monday the results of a major crackdown on scammers behind business email compromise BEC campaigns that resulted in 74 arrests and the retrieval of millions of dollars. Several U.S. federal authorities and police from other countries were involved in Operation WireWire, a...

Feds Arrest 74 Email Fraudsters Involved in Nigerian BEC Scams

The United States Department of Justice announced Monday the arrest of 74 email fraudsters across three continents in a global crackdown on a large-scale business email compromise BEC scheme. The arrest was the result of a six-month-long operation dubbed "Operation Wire Wire" that involved the US...

Two Romanian Hackers Extradited to the U.S. Over $18 Million Vishing Scam

Two Romanian hackers have been extradited to the United States to face 31 criminal charges including computer fraud and abuse, wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Described as "international computer hackers" by the United States Department of Justice, Teodor Laurent...

Two Romanian Hackers Extradited to the U.S. Over $18 Million Vishing Scam

Two Romanian hackers have been extradited to the United States to face 31 criminal charges including computer fraud and abuse, wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Described as "international computer hackers" by the United States Department of Justice, Teodor Laurent...

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...

PT-2018-16986

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager for Linux versions 7.2 through 7.3 Description The issue allows unauthorized local attackers to execute arbitrary code due to the Java Debug Wire Protocol JDWP being enabled. Recommendations For versions 7.2...

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...