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Detecting Stack based kernel Information leaks. S. Peiró, M. Muñoz, M. Masmano, and A. Crespo. Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS14). Keywords Security, Operating Systems, Information disclosure, Vulnerability, Static analysis. The Linux kernel has become widely adopted in the mobile ...
Don’t broadcast your company confidentials to the world. In August last year, Computerworld took to the streets of Auckland together with two network engineers to check out if wireless security really was as lax as everyone said. Using simple, off-the-shelf technology (two 802.11b cards plus an iPAQ PDA and an Asus por...
Malware turns victims into unwitting streamers Cybersecurity researchers have spotted an innovative new malware that uses a popular live-streaming app to record and broadcast the screen of its victims to the threat attackers. Spotted by Trend Micro, the remote access trojan (RAT) named BIOPASS, piggybacks inside instal...
Experimental Defense for Website Traffic Fingerprinting Updated 09/05/2011: Add link to actual implementation patch on gitweb Website fingerprinting is the act of recognizing web traffic through surveillance despite the use of encryption or anonymizing software. The general idea is to leverage the fact that many web si...
Not long ago, a massive SPAM attack was initiated through calendar event invitations. Anyone with an iCloud account could receive an event on their calendar in order to buy some gadget. Apple has already publicly apologized, and has claimed to be taking action against this attack. The attackers basically had one or sev...
The authors propose a simple domain adaptation method which corresponds to a latent-space transformation approach (c.f.Fig.2) The idea is very straight forward. Considering \(\Phi(.)\) a neural network projecting an input signal \(x_i\) to a latent space, they assume that a source and a target input signal \(x_i^s\) an...
Russian nation-state hackers are nearly 12 times faster on average than their Chinese counterparts when it comes to “breakout” speed – the time between compromising the first machine and when they can move laterally to other systems on the network. That’s according to California-based CrowdStrike’s annual threat report...
Ubiquiti access points have the ability to authenticate CPEs via Radius server. This means the admin doesn’t have to maintain local passwords for wireless authentication, each CPE/radio can have its own account in the Splynx ISP Framework and our Radius server will authenticate UBNT CPEs. Usually ISP already has a PPPo...
Someone told me that showing your IP address in a URL (like http://192.0.2.34/default.html) is easier to hack. Is that true? I could trace any domain name and get its IP number as well. Easier to hack? No. Easier to DoS? Potentially. Using an IP address instead of a host name with a DNS entry means you're giving up a l...
Metasploit is a handy Cybersecurity framework that has a number of payloads and exploits to help people with various penetration testing challenges. The payloads in Metasploit are classified into (i) Single and (ii) Stager modules. A single is a self-contained payload that operates independently. The stager payloads ar...
The team created several hardware connect-back appliances and used it in a PCI DSS segmentation testing engagement to uncover impactful network vulnerabilities. The penetration testing team was tasked with mobile and web application security assessments for an undisclosed banking institution. The scope was limited and ...
For all you facebook users/lovers or facebookers as they are sometimes called, you all should be more careful and cautious as it has been reported that a bit of malware known as Ramnit that has making its rounds on Facebook since two years ago, has made off with more than 45,000 usernames and passwords. According to a ...
Choose the security setting that is required on the wireless network. Enter text from picture: Profile Management Profile Management The Profile Management tab allows the user to configure several different user defined profiles. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: Atheros Client Utility has been inst...
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') The parsing mechanism that processes certain file types does not provide input sanitization for file paths. This may allow an attacker to craft malicious files that, when opened by Rockwell Automation Connected Components Workbench v12.00.00...
Pentest specialists discovered a malware piece that infects systems with ransomware cryptocurrency mining programs, depending on equipment specifications and configuration, to decide which of the two attacks could be more profitable. While ransomware is a type of malware that blocks a computer and prevents access to en...
How to Buy This script is Copyright (C) 2013 Tenable Network Security, Inc. The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security It was discovered that dnsmasq, when used in combination with certain libvirtd configurations, could incorrectly process network packets from network interfaces that were intended...
Offered under a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model, the Egregor ransomware poses a great threat to businesses due to the use of double extortion, a recent private industry notification from the Federal Bureau of Investigation warns. Initially observed by the FBI in September 2020, Egregor has claimed more th...
A massive campaign using over 1,300 domains to impersonate the official AnyDesk site is underway, all redirecting to a Dropbox folder recently pushing the Vidar information-stealing malware. AnyDesk is a popular remote desktop application for Windows, Linux, and macOS, used by millions of people worldwide for secure re...
This is not pure hype as many vendors including Gemtek Systems Inc., a company that designs and builds wireless infrastructure for Public Access providers, have observed that "organizations all over the world are increasingly looking at implementing WLAN," says Bonnie Cheong, its vice president of communications. "In A...
It’s a series of vulnerabilities: Josep Rodriguez, a researcher and consultant at security firm IOActive, has spent the last year digging up and reporting vulnerabilities in the so-called near-field communications reader chips used in millions of ATMs and point-of-sale systems worldwide. NFC systems are what let you wa...
In an age where our lives are increasingly intertwined with technology, the specter of cyber threats, such as rootkit attacks, looms ever larger. Rootkits, those stealthy and pernicious forms of malware, can infiltrate the deepest recesses of our computer systems, wreaking havoc and compromising our security. But fear ...
Provided by: RWSoftware Date Added: Sep 2014 IEEE 802.11 networks are particularly vulnerable to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks targeting the network availability. In this paper, the authors focus on the PS-Poll based DoS attack, where the attacker spoofs the polling frame on behalf of the client in order to discard t...
Microsoft 365 Defender warned yesterday that hackers are leveraging a sophisticated stealth attack method to spam cloud-based Microsoft Exchange users with phishing emails, particularly those not protected with multi-factor authentication. The phishing schemes helped hackers coerce an unknown number of users into signi...
Cantando is a simple non-resident virus which infects other COM files by placing a copy of it's own code to their end. Cantando deletes CHKLIST.MS files from directories it infects, thus by-passing checksummer of MSAV. Cantando activates on the 24th of December, any year. At this date it displays the following message:...
Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security. It passes itself off as an unofficial application for the Nintendo DS console but, when the user intalls it, it overwrites several key areas of its firmware in such a way that it will not be possible to start the console once switched off. |First detected on:||Oct. 1...
Live Hacking CD is a new Linux distribution packed with tools and utilities for ethical hacking, penetration testing and countermeasure verification. Based on Ubuntu this ‘Live CD” runs directly from the CD and doesn’t require installation on your hard-drive. Once booted you can use the included tools to test, check, e...
plugins/rssyl/feed.c in Claws Mail before 3.10.0 disables the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST check for CN or SAN host name fields, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof servers and conduct man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Note:References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between ...
The man in the middle has a lot of power and influence over the end result, and this is true even in the technological world. In fact, there are attacks dedicated to this vector, twisting and turning something that your organization needs into what amounts to a threat. We’ll discuss what a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) atta...
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') In EMC ViPR SRM, Storage M&R, VNX M&R, and M&R (Watch4Net) for SAS Solution Packs, the Webservice Gateway is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability. Attackers with knowledge of Webservice Gateway credentials could potentially exploi...
COOKING THE BOOKS is when a company fraudulently misrepresents the financial condition of a company by providing false or misleading information. FEEDBACK is the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output, e.g. a management feedback system would asse...
Holiday Shopping and Phishing Attacks By Francesca Spidalieri, Fellow for Cyber Leadership Hackers Devise New Simplified Phishing Method | Dark Reading Just in time for the holidays, scammers and hackers are preparing a torrent of fake emails that seem just too good not to click on, and are devising more efficient ways...
“There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be hacked,” said FBI Director Robert Mueller, speaking at the 2012 RSA Conference. While Mueller went on to discuss the likelihood of multiple attacks, some experts feel his statement may be in need of an update. And at Microsoft’s U.S. ...
It was recently discovered that there was a vulnerability within the ASP.Net Forms Authentication process that could allow an attacker to force a user to visit a malicious web site upon successful authentication. Until this vulnerability was found, it was thought that the only way to allow the Forms Authentication redi...
The Sysdig Threat Research Team recently disclosed details on a new cryptojacking campaign dubbed LABRAT that represents a serious threat for organizations using container environments. Researchers identified that this sophisticated operation uses evasive malware and rootkits to covertly hijack computing resources to m...
In a world where artificial intelligence continues to advance at an unprecedented pace, the emergence of EvilGPT has sent shockwaves throughout the tech industry and beyond. EvilGPT, an AI language model with malicious intent, poses a significant threat to our digital ecosystem by generating harmful content, spreading ...
Chapter 10. JavaServer Pages Concepts Most of the content presented to the user as part of a Web application is HTML. These Web pages are easily created and managed using HTML page editors which allow the developer to concentrate on the presentation and content through the use of a WYSIWYG user interface. In previous c...
In-brief: emboldened by media attention for its escapades in the U.S. Presidential election, the hacking crew known as “Fancy Bear” is targeting political parties in France as well as Germany, the firm Trend Micro reported on Tuesday – the latest evidence of meddling in foreign affairs. (Editor’s note: updated to add c...
This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Tenable Network Security, Inc. The remote Apache Tomcat service may be affected by multiple According to its self-reported version number, the Apache Tomcat listening on the remote host is earlier than Tomcat 6.0.16 and, as such, may be affected by multiple vulnerabilities. - The ...
Malware uses many tricks to hide its process, and one of the most common is known as RunPE. Essentially this involves starting a known and trusted process - Explorer.exe, say - then replacing its code with the malware's own. Phrozen RunPE Detector is a free tool which scans the headers of your processes in memory, and ...
Researchers have been analyzing a new ransomware family that calls itself "Egregor." Attackers behind the malware, which has affected at least 13 companies, typically operate by breaking into organizations, stealing sensitive data, and running the malware to encrypt their files. Appgate researchers tracking the threat ...
Spoofing is a type of online scam where cybercriminals trick people into believing that they are receiving a legitimate message from a trusted source, such as an email from Schools Federal Credit Union. These messages often contain malicious links or attachments that, if clicked, can install malware or steal personal i...
Threat researchers believe two Chinese hacking groups are using ransomware attacks to cover up cyber espionage campaigns against western and Japanese companies. Chinese state-sponsored groups are in search of sensitive information and use financially motivated attacks to mask their true goals. Two clusters of activity ...
One of the targets of the new Mirai variant is CVE-2017-5638, a known remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Struts that attackers exploited with Object Graph Navigation Language (OGNL). The remaining 15 vulnerabilities include RCE flaws and an OS command injection security glitch in enterprise-used router...
The social media app of the moment, TikTok, has a major vulnerability that could allow threat actors to take control of any account. It seems this problem affects only the Android version of the social media app. The issue has been detailed by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team. In a blog post, the team explains ...
Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed on Monday that hackers attempted to bypass security controls using a combination of Windows Safe Mode and AnyDesk remote administration tool. Windows Safe Mode is an IT support method for resolving IT issues by disabling most security and IT administration tools, while...
– Impacket (svn checkout http://impacket.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ impacket-read-only) – Veil Evasion (git clone https://github.com/Veil-Framework/Veil-Evasion.git) If you are working on a penetration test remotely, its sometimes hard to determine when the users start work or connect their laptops to the network. winbo...
The United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published 95 new security weaknesses to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog this week, bringing the total number of actively exploited vulnerabilities to 478. In a March 3, 2022 alert, the agency stated, “These types of vulnerabilities a...
Closed Bug 1423733 Opened 4 years ago Closed 2 years ago about:logins pre-filters to show logins for domains which contain the page's domain as a substring User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 Build ID: 20171114221957 Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to https://sourceforge.net/auth/...
This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc. The remote Windows host contains a program that is prone to a remote buffer overflow attack. The remote Windows host contains a version of Motorola Inc.'s Timbuktu Pro that is earlier than 8.6.7. Timbuktu Pro allows remote access to a computer's desk...
SynopsisThe remote web server contains an application that is affected by a SQL injection vulnerability DescriptionThe Virtualizor install hosted on the remote web server is earlier than 2.3.1 and therefore affected by an unspecified SQL injection vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to inject or manipulate SQL...
This script is Copyright (C) 2014 Tenable Network Security, Inc. The remote web server is affected by an unspecified vulnerability. According to its banner, the version of Oracle Fusion Middleware HTTP Server installed on the remote host is affected by an unspecified flaw in the User Administration Pages of the Enterpr...
Port scan and ping sweep detection tools http port scans and ping sweeps explained. Ping sweep with nmap sweep a range of ip addresses to discover live hosts ping sweep tool online. Project 6: analyzing a port scan (20 points) what you need for this project a kali linux machine (real or virtual) performing a ping sweep...
It is important to realize that ARP is only used on LANs (Local Area Networks). Originally, all computers were directly connected to The Internet, so all routing was based on IP addresses. Eventually, routers allowed multiple computers on a LAN to connect to The Internet with a single IP address. In order to allow comp...
Article by Nick Frichette. Local Privilege Escalation: User Data 2 A common pattern when using EC2 is to define a user data script to be run when an instance is first started or after a reboot. These scripts are typically used to install software, download and set a config, etc. Oftentimes the scripts and packages are ...
For #2, why did you enable that? This means you need to enable remote resources, like a remote shared drive or something like that. So you make a double hop(in Microsoft terms). You hop once to your target and once again to your remote shared drive. WMI does not allow this for security policy reasons so we have to do s...
Overpass the hash This kind of attack is similar to PtH (pass the hash) but applied to Kerberos networks. When a user requests a TGT, they send a timestamp encrypted with an encryption key derived from their password. The algorithm used to derive this key can be either DES (disabled by default on current Windows versio...
Video surveillance to ensure safety and security helps billions of people each day. From a family wandering around a safe shopping centre under the watchful eye of a video surveillance camera, or concerned parents monitoring a sleeping baby; video surveillance touches all of our lives. With all these benefits, video su...
Threat actors use stolen NVIDIA code signing certificates to sign malware to appear trustworthy and allow malicious drivers to be loaded into Windows. This week, NVIDIA confirmed they were victims of a cyberattack that allowed threat actors to steal employee credentials and proprietary data. The extortion group, known ...
Despite information security figuring in the defence and national security consciousness since well before the end of the Cold War, we remain in the early days of cyber. For some years after September 2001, when concerns over cyber were overtaken as a national security priority by terrorism, cyber tended to be seen a s...
Cyber criminals are utilising the Agent Tesla remote access trojan (RAT) pushing it out via a phishing campaign that uses a COVID-19 vaccination schedules as a lure. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last time that the pandemic will be used by nefarious criminals to try and catch out businesses and compani...
In a recent digital forensic analysis activity that was conducted in February 2022 by CYE’s Critical Cyber Operations group, our team analyzed an image of a client’s suspicious Linux server that was reported to be sending brute force attacks worldwide. The team concluded that not only had the server indeed been breache...
ware like Regin, Duqu,g or Hammertoss,h which by security experts are thought to be created by nation-states to infiltrate a wide range of international targets and eventually launch attacks if necessary. However, currently it can be observed that not only APTs, but even the typical malware is turning toward increased ...
Analysis of chatter on dark web forums shows that efforts are already under way to use OpenAI’s chatbot to help script malware. The ChatGPT AI chatbot has created plenty of excitement in the short time it has been available and now it seems it has been enlisted by some in attempts to help generate malicious code. ChatG...
Last week in security news, researchers spotted a new attack campaign in which malicious actors leveraged trojanized versions of popular hacking tools to spread the njRat Trojan. Various other Trojan families made headlines, as well. Geost drew attention to itself by using unofficial webpages to target Russian banks, w...
Researchers from Symantec has identified a state sponsored hacking campaign targeting multiple organisations from Asian countries including Certificate authorities, and government agencies. The APT group named "Billbug" has been active atleast from 2009 has reoccured with primary motive of conducting espionage activity...
Last Updated: 2008-04-16 19:14:00 UTC by Bojan Zdrnja (Version: 3) Back in January there were multiple reports about a large number of web sites being compromised and serving malware. Fellow handler Mari wrote the initial diary at http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3834. Later we did several diaries where we analyz...
Web cache poisoning involves two steps. First, the attacker must figure out how to get a response from the back-end server that includes a harmful payload. Then, the attacker must ensure that this response is saved in the cache and served to its intended targets. In order to store the response on the server's cache, th...
Threat actors have been leveraging the new Sysinternals PsExec utility implementation developed by Pentera to facilitate lateral movement across targets' networks using the less monitored Windows TCP port 135, indicating that blocking port 445 alone is insufficient, reports BleepingComputer "We found that the SMB proto...
Port tunneling or port forwarding, is a useful way to access applications running on a remote computer. Essentially, port forwarding maps an external “port” on an internet-facing IP address to a particular computer on a corporate network. This allows the user to access something on a corporate computer from the interne...
Google Chrome is a popular open-source browser used to access the internet and run multiple web applications; It is one of the most trustable browsing platforms all around the world. Even so, there are multiple attacks targeting google chrome, as it is the best place to steal credentials or other sensitive information....
People often use the term “variant” to refer to physical viruses that infect their bodies, but a different kind of variant is infecting computers—what Microsoft Security Intelligence refers to as the Sysrv-K variant. Sysrv-K takes advantage of web frameworks and WordPress vulnerabilities and uses them to attack Windows...
About defending against bounce attacks |Article:HOWTO53527|||||Created: 2011-06-06|||||Updated: 2012-08-20|||||Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO53527| A bounce attack occurs when a spammer obscures message origins by using one email server to bounce spam to an address on another server. The spammer does th...
For some time threat actors who create Internet of Things-based botnets have been relying on brute force attacks to take control of and build chains of devices for delivering malware or distributed denial of service attacks. But according to a report out today from Netscout, as more secure IoT devices are being install...
Targeting IT and OT environments have lately been one of the top priorities of threat actors. A new powerful UEFI rootkit has surfaced in the darknet marketplace as a major threat across those environments. Meanwhile, researchers spotted a phishing campaign by hackers running the Ducktail phishing campaign. Hackers wer...
Problems with WEP On 802.11 networks, you can enable WEP (wired equivalent privacy), which encrypts the body of each frame. This is supposed to keep hackers from viewing sensitive e-mails, user names and passwords, proprietary documents, etc. However a hacker can fairly easily decode WEP-encrypted information after mon...
Web browsers are conquer more and more areas of our interactions with IT systems. In fact, they are increasingly taking over the role of operating systems: critical parts of personal or business life are supported by web apps, i.e., executed in the browser. Moreover, browsers extensions or apps allow users to extend th...
IBM X-Force identified a new Trojan, dubbed IcedID, that uses advanced browser manipulation tactics to target financial institutions in the U.S. and U.K. IBM X-Force Research discovered a new variant of Zberp that evades API threat detection tools using a code injection technique it borrowed from Carberp. To protect st...
Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security. It allows to get into the affected computer. It uses the infected computer to take malicious actions on other users. It carries out actions that decrease the security level of the computer. , via email. |First detected on:||March 2, 2006| |Detection updated on:||Marc...
Hack Wi-Fi using Social Engineering with Fluxion (Evil Twin Attack) FLUXION is a remake of Linset by vk439 with fewer bugs and more features. It’s accordant with the latest release of Kali. This new Wi-Fi hacking method could potentially allow hackers or attackers to recover the password key. In this method, the attack...
China Implicated in Prolonged Supply Chain Attack Targeting Taiwan Financial Sector Severe Vulnerability Uncovered in Major Taiwan Financial Software Taipei, Taiwan — 22 February 2022 — CyCraft, a leading managed detection and response (MDR) provider based in Taiwan, uncovered intelligence regarding the November 2021 c...
ICS cyber security blog guest post: Groups attacking ICS systems XI: Hexane/Lyceum 03 April 2021 – icscybersec The attackers known as Hexane/Lyceum (Hexane is the name given to this group attacking ICS systems by Dragos, Lyceum by MITRE ATT&CK for ICS framework) have been active since 2018 at the latest and have seen a...
Set up Apache Tika server (optional)¶ Apache Tika is a content analysis toolkit used to detect and extract metadata and text from different file types. It can be used both as a service and a command line utility. In the console, create jars directory in your home directory and position into it: mkdir ~/jars cd ~/jars T...
Suspected cybercrime group known as Lazarus is suspected to be behind numerous attacks against Polish banks. Polish banks reportedly detected previously-undetected Malware variants in their system. They reported usual behavior that included abnormal network traffic to foreign locations, encrypted executable, and malwar...
Threat report: ATM/PoS malware attacks spike between 2017-2019 Cash dispensing terminals have become increasingly ripe targets for cybercriminals, with cybersec firm Kaspersky reporting a 250 per cent jump in malware-based attacks targeting Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) and Point of Sale (POS) terminals between 2017 a...
Name Oracle Sun Java System Web Server - HTTP Response Splitting Vendor Website http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/sjs.websrv70?l=en Date Released/CVE 18th October 2010 - CVE-2010-3514 Affected Software Sun Java System Web Server 6.1, 7.0 Researcher Roberto Suggi Liverani Security-Assessment.com discovered that is possi...
Jul 02, 2021 How Enhanced Cyber Hygiene Can Help Your Organization Wake-Up from a PrintNightmare A new Windows zero-day exploit is the perfect opportunity to start thinking more proactively about endpoint visibility and controlBy Jim Kelly, RVP, Endpoint Security Specialist , Tanium The eyes of the IT world are once ag...
HTTP Protocol Stack Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-21907) When was CVE-2022-21907 identified? On January 11, 2022, a security vulnerability was identified, and Microsoft assigned the CVE 2022-21907 with CVSS of 9.8. Have there been any exploitations of this remote code execution vulnerability in the wild...
In late September; researchers from the security/anti-malware firm Eset discovered the first UEFI (defined) rootkit (defined) being used in the wild (namely being present on computing devices used by the general public in their professional and personal lives). The APT group known as APT28 (who we discussed before on t...
Meet Dumbo, a hacking tool used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Dumbo might sound dumb to you by virtue of its name. But, in reality it is just the opposite. It is the sharpest equipment to disable security cameras and corrupt video recordings in a system. Dumbo can identify, control, and manipulate the m...
Do you ever wonder about the pre-built software in your computer? What will happen if it affects your security? What is the worst-case scenario? A pre-installed piece in your computer can pose a serious security risk. Let us understand it from a recent example of Dell breach, a well-known technology company, dealing in...
On 2 August, apparently for the first time ever, a hacking group coordinated a range of different reflection-style DDoS attacks against a single data centre, the firm involved has confirmed. This attack was so distinctive, the victim, Melbourne-based Micron21, has even come up with a new piece of technical jargon to de...
Everything You Need to Know About DDoS Attacks Today – 2021 The entire DDoS attack landscape is changing. Although originally intended to inflict damage by utilizing massive traffic, DDoS attacks have become more pervasive, persistent, obscure, and sophisticated. Additionally, the DDoS attack surfaces continue to grow,...
Hackers use a callback phishing campaign to impersonate cybersecurity companies to gain access to corporate networks. Crowdstrike cybersecurity company released a statement claiming that hackers used their name to lure victims. Customers receive an impersonating email from Crowdstrike, which claims that their company h...
Researchers are expressing concern over a versatile spyware called InvisiMole that has been spotted in highly targeted campaigns targeting Windows PCs in Russia and the Ukraine. The malicious code, which comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, has a modular architecture, with two different, feature-rich backdoors that hav...
Iranian Hackers Heavily Reliant on DNS Tunneling Iran-linked cyber-espionage group OilRig is making broad use of DNS tunneling across its tools portfolio, Palo Alto Networks security researchers reveal. Active since at least 2014 and said to have ties with the Iranian government, the hacking group has been mainly targe...
Adversaries may attempt to find domain-level groups and permission settings. The knowledge of domain-level permission groups can help adversaries determine which groups exist and which users belong to a particular group. Adversaries may use this information to determine which users have elevated permissions, such as do...
A brand new service launched in October, Amazon Key, offers deliveries inside the Amazon Prime members’ homes. A security camera, Cloud Cam, records and allows Amazon customers to track and watch the delivery process live or recorded for viewing later. However, researchers at Rhino Security Labs detected a vulnerabilit...
CWE-1385: Missing Origin Validation in WebSockets The software uses a WebSocket, but it does not properly verify that the source of data or communication is valid. WebSockets provide a bi-directional low latency communication (near real-time) between a client and a server. WebSockets are different than HTTP in that the...
P2P Weakness Exposes Millions of IoT Devices peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. A map showin...
An organised crime network is distributing new malware that takes advantage of rootkits and a state-of-the-art HTML injection to phish consumers on the fly as they browse the Web, a new report from VeriSign's iDefense warned on Wednesday. The malicious code sample analysed by iDefense was a Small downloader Trojan hors...