CVE-2017-15535

CVE-2017-15535 affects MongoDB 3.4.x before 3.4.10 and 3.5.x-development in the wire protocol compression feature (networkMessageCompressors), which is disabled by default but if enabled can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or modify memory. Public advisories and updates exist...

CVE-2017-15535: Undefined Security Weakness

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...

Denial Of Service (DoS) Through Integer Overflow

github.com/tendermint/go-wire is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The library does not ensure the input to be encoded is less than the maximum integer value accepted, allowing a malicious user to cause an integer overflow that crashes the application...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID30847: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on October 5, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 55524 First Published: 2017 October 5 16:08 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID30847 may contain the following files: Name |...

Spanish Court Agrees to Extradite Russian Spam King to the United States

Spain's National Court ruled on Tuesday to extradite a 36-year-old Russian computer programmer, accused by American authorities of malicious hacking offences, to the United States, according to a court document. Peter Yuryevich Levashov, also known as Peter Severa, was arrested in April this year...

Russian Lawmaker’ Son Pleads Guilty to $50M Hacking Scam

By Uzair Amir Russian Lawmaker’s Son Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Identity This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Lawmaker’ Son Pleads Guilty to $50M Hacking Scam...

How hackers have improved their BEC attack methods

Email is increasingly an integral part of global life, but business email compromise BEC attacks could place these communications at risk. Research by The Radicati Group found that 2.9 billion people worldwide will be using email portals by 2019. Each business user will send 126 messages daily by...

Business Email Compromise Campaign Harvesting Credentials in Numerous Industries

A business email compromise campaign emanating out of Western Africa is targeting companies in a wide swathe of industries, bucking a trend of these scams focusing on wire fraud and targeting CEOs. The criminals are using phishing emails with links redirecting victims to sites designed to harvest...

Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison

A 29-year-old Russian-born, Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for running botnets of half a million computers and stealing and trafficking tens of thousands of credit card numbers on exclusive Russian-speaking cybercriminal forums. Alexander Tverdokhlebov was...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2295

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...

3 Nigerian Scammers Get 235-Years of Total Jail Sentence in U.S.

You may have heard of hilarious Nigerian scams. My all time favourite is this one: A Nigerian astronaut has been trapped in space for the past 25 years and needs $3 million to get back to Earth, Can you help? Moreover, Nigerians are also good at promising true love and happiness. But You know, Lo...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2295

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...

Business Email Compromise Losses Up 2,370 Percent Since 2015

Business Email Compromise BEC schemes, where executives are scammed via social engineering and phishing compromises that ultimately lead to fraudulent wire transfers, grew at a jaw-dropping rate of 2,370 percent in the last two years. The FBI yesterday published its latest statistics on these...

Blind Trust in Email Could Cost You Your Home

The process of buying or selling a home can be extremely stressful and complex, but imagine the stress that would boil up if -- at settlement -- your money was wired to scammers in another country instead of to the settlement firm or escrow company. Here's the story about a phishing email that co...

Edit and Replay Network Traffic: tcpreplay

Edit and Replay Network Traffic Tcpreplay is a suite of GPLv3 licensed utilities for UNIX and Win32 under Cygwin operating systems for editing and replaying network traffic which was previously captured by tools like tcpdump and Ethereal / Wireshark . It allows you to classify traffic as client o...

Fedora 24 : tcpreplay (2017-7980b5e846)

Here is what is fixed in this release : - Fix reporting of rates 1Mbps 348 - Option --unique-ip not working properly 346 ---- Features and fixes include : - MAC rewriting capabilities by Pedro Arthur 313 - Fix several issues identified by Coverity 305 - Packet distortion --fuzz-seed option by...

US Charges Two Russian Spies & Two Hackers For Hacking 500 Million Yahoo Accounts

The 2014 Yahoo hack disclosed late last year that compromised over 500 million Yahoo user accounts was believed to be carried out by a state-sponsored hacking group. Now, two Russian intelligence officers and two criminal hackers have been charged by the US government in connection with the 2014...

Turning Tables on Nigerian Business Email Scammers

SAN FRANCISCO – Traditional takedowns of cybercrime enterprises generally rely on court orders that facilitate either taking servers offline or sending the criminals malware that helps identify them or their locations. Sometimes, however, the technical option is second best. Researchers at Dell...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID27631: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 1, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 52511 First Published: 2017 February 2 14:29 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID27631 may contain the following files: Name |...

OpenJDK: insufficient checks of JDWP packets (Hotspot, 8159519)

It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly check received Java Debug Wire Protocol JDWP packets. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to send debugging commands to a Java program running with debugging enabled if they could make victim's browser send HTTP request...