Mailsploit vulnerability exists in email address resolution

TL;DR: Mailsploit is a collection of bugs in email clients that allow effective sender spoofing and code injection attacks. The spoofing is not detected by Mail Transfer Agents MTA aka email servers, therefore circumventing spoofing protection mechanisms such as DMARC DKIM/SPF or spam filters. Bu...

Internet Bug Bounty: Mailsploit: a sender spoofing bug in over 30 email clients

Mailsploit is a collection of bugs in email clients that allow effective sender spoofing and code injection attacks. The spoofing is not detected by Mail Transfer Agents MTA aka email servers, therefore circumventing spoofing protection mechanisms such as DMARC DKIM/SPF or spam filters. Bugs were...

MailSploit — Email Spoofing Flaw Affects Over 30 Popular Email Clients

If you receive an email that looks like it's from one of your friends, just beware! It's possible that the email has been sent by someone else in an attempt to compromise your system. A security researcher has discovered a collection of vulnerabilities in more than 30 popular email client...

yahoo.hitsteps.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-446685 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| yahoo.hitsteps.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

22-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to 2014 Yahoo Hack, Admits Helping Russian Intelligence

Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen, has pleaded guilty to hacking charges over his involvement in massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected all three billion yahoo accounts. In March, the US Justice Department announced charges against two Russian intelligence office...

Android Gmail < 7.11.5.176568039 - Directory Traversal in Attachment Download Exploit

There is a directory traversal issue in attachment downloads in Gmail. For non-gmail accounts, there is no path sanitization on the attachment filename in the email, so when attachments are downloaded, a file with any name and any contents can be written to anywhere on the filesystem that the Gma...

Terdot Trojan likes social media

We usually advise people that have fallen victim to banker Trojans to change all their passwords, especially the ones that are related to their financial sites and apps. Besides the dangers of re-used passwords, there are other reasons why this is important. This advice is especially applicable t...

Phishing Biggest Threat to Google Account Security

Last year may have been mostly about ransomware, but it’s difficult to forget the billion or so passwords that were spilled in high-profile breaches and credential leaks. Google and researchers from the University of California Berkeley attempted to ease some of that pain, and teamed up to analyz...

US Identifies 6 Russian Government Officials Involved In DNC Hack

The United States Department of Justice has reportedly gathered enough evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials for allegedly playing a role in hacking DNC systems and leaking information during the 2016 presidential race. Earlier this year, US intelligence agencies concluded...

developer.yahoo.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://developer.yahoo.com/r3nw4--\n Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 16.01.2018 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP website status:| No Coordinated Disclosure Timeline...

Semrush: Email Spoofing

Hey SemRush, It appears that spoofed email can be sent from 1 of your emails. The following email is vulnerable: [email protected] Information: Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Data Breaches and Credential Stuffing: Don't Get TKOd

It has been a very rough month for the information security community. It feels like we've been on the losing end of a championship fight against Floyd Mayweather. The body shots started with Equifax https://investor.equifax.com/news-and-events/news/2017/09-07-2017-213000628 and continued with...

All 3 Billion Yahoo Users Were Hacked in 2013 Data Breach

By Uzair Amir If you had an account on Yahoo back in the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: All 3 Billion Yahoo Users Were Hacked in 2013 Data Breach...

October 4, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Nobel Prize” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 4, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Kangaroo Ransomware uses...

Fear Not: You, Too, Are a Cybercrime Victim!

Maybe you've been feeling left out because you weren't among the lucky few hundred million or billion who had their personal information stolen in either the Equifax or Yahoo! breaches. Well buck up, camper: Both companies took steps to make you feel better today. Yahoo! announced that, our bad!:...

2013 Yahoo Breach Affected All 3 Billion Accounts

A massive breach of Yahoo’s systems in 2013 impacted every account in existence at the time, the company said last night in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yahoo disclosed the breach last December when it revealed that it believed 1 billion accounts were compromised. Las...

It's 3 Billion! Yes, Every Single Yahoo Account Was Hacked In 2013 Data Breach

The largest known hack of user data in the history just got tripled in size. Yahoo, the internet company that's acquired by Verizon this year, now believes the total number of accounts compromised in the August 2013 data breach, which was disclosed in December last year, was not 1 billion—it's 3...

login.yahoo.com.privacypanel.tk Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-311743 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| login.yahoo.com.privacypanel.tk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| Open Redirect / CWE-601 CVSSv3 Score:| 3.4...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...