content
stringlengths
196
523k
Purpose 🛡 The Attack Range is a detection development platform, which solves three main challenges in detection engineering: The user is able to quickly build a small lab infrastructure as close as possible to a production environment. The Attack Range performs attack simulation using different engines such as Atomic ...
Infected With Vundo ParadigmBLU3 #14 Mar 13, 2009 Linux Mint is what I use, it is based off of Ubuntu. The ESG Threat Scorecard is an assessment report that is given to every malware threat that has been collected and analyzed through our Malware Research Center. Vundo installs on your computer through a trojan and may...
The ATM is one of the indispensable technologies in the modern world. The working principle of ATMs is actually simple. After loading the card into the ATM card reader, the cardholder is prompted to enter a secret code (PIN code) for authorization. Next, a selection of available operations is offered (a PIN code may al...
Hiding IP During Pentest using PowerShell Empire (http_hop) This is our fourth article in empire series, in this article we learn to use hop payload in PowerShell empire. Empire has an inbuilt listener named http_hop which allows us to redirect our traffic to one of our another active listener after getting an agent. T...
Google Axes 500 Chrome Extensions Exfiltrating User Data Google has removed more than 500 extensions from the Chrome Web Store after they were found performing covert data exfiltration activities. Independent security researcher Jamila Kaya and Cisco’s Duo Labs originally identified a network of 70 copycat plugins with...
Clickjacking occurs when an attacker tricks a user into clicking a web page link that is different from where they had intended to go. After the victim clicks the link, they may be redirected to what appears to be a legitimate page where they input their sensitive information, similar to a pharming attack. A clickjacki...
The sample we’re analyzing is part of the Ave Maria RAT malware family, but judging from it’s simple functions, perhaps it’s simply a loader to download the more complete malware. The file disguises itself as a PDF file with the icon, but in actuality, it’s a .NET program. We fire up DNSpy and load it in and navigate t...
Delaware, USA – April 10, 2019 – The researchers of Palo Alto Networks Unit 24 published a report informing about a strain of Mirai malware compiled to target Xilinx MicroBlaze, Altera Nios II, Tensilica Xtensa and OpenRISC processors is in the wild. Along with the gained abilities to target new systems like digital si...
What is a port knocking attack? Port knocking is an attack technique enumerated in the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix. This technique is used by attackers to open closed ports by sending network packets containing special information and is most used in the Command-and-Control phase of an attack operation. Is port knocking effect...
Wireless networks are a very important part of network architecture, especially for LAN architectures. They are present in combination with wired networks. Both of them form a complete network together. In the previous blog, we learned how wireless networks work. Note: If you haven’t read the previous blog of our CCNA ...
NsCpuCNMiner is spread via drive-by-download and file transfer protocol. The dropped file is a Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) container with the .src file extension and a filename to entice users to double-click it. When executed, the miner will make requests to download wallet addresses and an installation ...
For the Spanish version of this blog post, please click here. On Tuesday, October 2, 2018, the US-CERT issued a joint Technical Advisory (TA) from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Treasury warning banks about the ATM cash-out scheme called “FASTCash.” The T...
Storm worm definition Storm worm refers to a notorious computer worm from 2007. It is also known as the Storm Botnet. The specific activities of the Storm worm have significantly reduced since its peak, and it is now not considered an active threat. Storm worm history The Storm worm emerged in early 2007 and quickly be...
Zberp Banking Trojan: A Hybrid of Carberp and Zeus It’s official: Zeus and Carberp have gotten hitched and hybridized. Malware authors have combined source code from the financial Trojans to produce Zberp, a new variant that targets 450 banking institutions around the world. Zeus + Carberp = Zberp For those unfamiliar,...
Remote code execution Affecting org.apache.struts:struts2-core Open this link in a new tab package, versions [2,126.96.36.199) Do your applications use this vulnerable package? In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes....
Researchers at Cylance recently uncovered the malicious use of a core router in a campaign aimed at critical infrastructure around the world. Dave Bittner: [00:00:03] Hello everyone, and welcome to the CyberWire's Research Saturday, presented by the Hewlett Foundation's Cyber Initiative. I'm Dave Bittner, and this is o...
Emily, a hacker, is completing a website form to request a free coupon. The site has a field that limits the request to 3 or fewer coupons. While submitting the form, Emily runs an application on her machine to intercept the HTTP POST command and change the field from 3 coupons to 30. Which of the following was used to...
It seams that the http.rb plugin uses the same classes to get a HTTP connection puppet usually uses to talk to the master, configured with puppets own cert store. There may be cases where the https endpoint uses a certificate signed by the puppet CA. However in the case of the Dashboard or similar endpoints it uses a w...
Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails before 2.1.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) :limit and (2) :offset parameters, related to ActiveRecord, ActiveSupport, ActiveResource, ActionPack, and ActionMailer. Publish Date : 2008-09-30 Last Update Date : 2017-08-07 OVAL ...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned Food and Agriculture (FA) sector organizations today of an increased risk that ransomware gangs “may be more likely” to attack them during the harvest and planting seasons. While ransomware groups regularly target the US agriculture sector, the FBI noted that the numb...
Security researcher Man Yue Mo has disclosed a critical RCE vulnerability in the Apache Struts web appframework that could allow hackers to run malicious code on the vulnerable servers. Apache Struts is an open source framework for Java web programmingand is widely used by enterprises including Vodafone, Lockheed Marti...
OS-WINDOWS Microsoft Windows win32k NtGdiExtFloodFill memory corruption attempt This event is generated when an attacker attempts to exploit an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Attempted Administrator Privilege Gain This rule fires when an attacker attempts to exploit an elevation of privilege...
Rootkits: Kernel Mode We have learned in part one of this series about the Rootkits and how they operate in User Mode; in this part of the series we will up the ante and look at the other part where rootkits operate, i.e. Kernel Mode. Kernel Mode Rootkit To get familiar with this, let's say you suspect a system to be r...
The U.S. government has warned that IT workers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are disguising themselves as freelancers to steal privileged access. The stolen access can be used sometimes to facilitate cyber intrusions. To circumvent the controls put in place by the United States and the United Na...
Researchers at BlackBerry which work with security analysts at KPMG have uncovered a new form of ransomware that called Tycoon which will be exploiting Windows and Linux system. This type of malware will take advantage of stay hidden on a compromised network via an uncommon deployment technique. The malware is been wri...
In today’s digital age, snooping tools are becoming increasingly popular. These tools allow users to monitor and track the activities of others, often without their knowledge or consent. While these tools can be used for legitimate purposes, such as monitoring children’s online activities, they can also be used for mal...
Malware is capable of doing all kinds of nasty things, from hijacking search results to emptying a Bitcoin wallet. Now a strain has been discovered that turns infected machines into anonymous proxy hosts. Security researchers at Palo Alto networks reported on the malware recently. They’re calling it ProxyBack, and its ...
A virus that turns victims’ computers into a cryptocurrency miner without their knowledge is spreading across Facebook Messenger, security experts have warned. The malware, named “Digmine”, affects desktop versions of the app when running on a Google Chrome browser, according to researchers at Trend Micro. “If the user...
As the volume and sophistication of cyber threats continue to rise, it is becoming increasingly critical that federal civilian agencies do all they can to protect their systems from malicious actors. Unfortunately, these efforts have not been enough in some cases—as evidenced by a recent joint alert released by the Cyb...
The Policy Expert: Network Security: Restrict NTLM: Audit Incoming NTLM Traffic NTLM is Microsoft’s old mythological authentication protocol. Although new and better authentication protocol has already been developed, NTLM is still very much in use. NTLM protocol has proven to have many flaws that result in potential v...
This seems like an old story that is already advised: a system whose old technologies have updated to electronic, therefore introducing vulnerabilities at a crucial atmosphere. And while this development is more reminiscent of technical programs, it’s also that of security networks, especially CCTV. 1. FROM TAPE TO IP ...
Some Smart Card and Thumb Drive Applications One of the original applications of smart-card technology was in smart credit cards. Bank cards are initially programmed by the bank, mailed to a bank customer, and then used by the bank customers in ATMs. The following list of threats is significant: The first and most obvi...
This example uses several of the classes found in the java.awt.dnd package. Here’s how they fit together (see Figure 24-3). Remember that we’re just looking at the drop side of DnD. We’ll explore the drag side in the next section and autoscrolling at the end of this Figure 24-3. DnD class diagram for the drop side An o...
Most Commented Posts The past 18 months have seen a series of sustained and ongoing cyber campaigns by state-aligned threat actors targeting journalists and media organisations around the world, which show no sign of letting up, according to security firm Proofpoint. The firm’s research team today (14 July) published n...
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation. Adversaries may dump the content of the keychain storage data from a system to acquire credentials. Keychains are the built-in way for macOS to keep track of ...
Cyber threat topics written by top analysts Intelligence isn’t network data, or indicators of compromise, or forensics. Intelligence isn’t derived by machines, it’s derived by humans analyzing all of that data to provide information security professionals with accurate, contextual information with which they base creat...
Gravity GTD rpc.php file include |gravitygtd-rpc-file-include (47090)||Medium Risk| Gravity GTD could allow a remote attacker to include arbitrary files. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to the rpc.php script using the objectname parameter to specify a malicious file from the local system, w...
On January 5th 2021, the NSA | CSS (National Security Agency Central Security Service) issued a report offering guidance on Eliminating Obsolete TLS Protocol Configurations. The guide highlights evidence that using obsolete TLS configurations provides a false sense of security since it looks like the data is protected,...
The presence of a file named autorun.inf in the root of fixed/mobile drives (hard disks partitions, USB pen drives etc.) and the strange behavior of the computer. This files enables worms and other type of malware to be executed at startup. Be aware that the mere presence of this file isn’t to be considered a threat be...
Guide To Dropbox Virus Email We have provided a unique guide for Dropbox Virus Email and also this guide will help you for Free. You Get the Best Result For And You Can Click On Best Site. Are you searching for Dropbox Virus Email? Stop here. Here you will find the best login Official websites for FREE. Complete Steps ...
A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2020; you can also visit the original URL. The file type is Package managers have become a vital part of the modern software development process. They allow developers to reuse third-party code, sha...
New Lucifer DDoS botnet can exploit a dozen vulnerabilities to hack into a Windows Operating System Researchers have found a new DDoS botnet, dubbed as Lucifer can exploit a dozen vulnerabilities to hack into a Windows OS. The Lucifer Botnet appeared in the threat landscape, it leverages a dozen exploits for high and c...
Hello, this is c477us. Now, what method do you use when you want to run Kali Linux? Many people will use virtual environments such as Virtual Box and VMware. In fact, it's perfect if you want to do penetration testing in a virtual environment. However, there may not be much need to build a virtual environment, such as ...
Join Our Popular Newsletter Join 4,500+ Linux & Open Source Professionals! 2x a month. No spam. Vulnerabilities found in Ghost Newsletter system According to Cisco Talos, two vulnerabilities in the Ghost CMS newsletter subscription system, CVE-2022-41654, and CVE-2022-41697, exist in the newsletter subscription functio...
Researchers who discovered vulnerabilities in mobile point-of-sale devices (mPOS), which could allow malicious code execution on targeted payment systems, demonstrated their findings at Black Hat 2014 in Las Vegas. Jon Butler, the head of research at UK-based MWR Labs, along with a colleague at the company, calling him...
In Today’s date, the craze of cybersecurity is increasing day by day and the cyber attacks and cyber threats are also increasing at the same pace. So, to tackle all these threats we need to be updated by the latest tools so that we can counter all these cyber threats more efficiently. So, today I am going to talk about...
- Enumeration will lead to hidden directories - Find a direcotrie list and re enumenrate the web server - Examine the source code to find FTP credentials - Access FTP to find a private key - Once access is gained exploit the script with code injection and bind a shell - Use docker exploit to gain root access Run nmap s...
You’ve probably heard of the term “rootkit” before. A rootkit refers to software or programs that are bundled together for the purpose of accessing a device’s system (or parts of it) that are otherwise inaccessible for unauthorized users. Rootkits allow users to gain administrative control of a device, allowing them to...
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. When a resource is given a permissions setting that provides access to a wider range of actors than required, it could ...
21st Century Chinese Cyber Warfare The history of Chinese warfare on American networks is rooted in the history of how China views the western world. According to Lt Col Bill Hagestad, Author of ‘21st Century Chinese Warfare’, you "cannot pick up a newspaper or read a blog without hearing about the cyber threats from t...
This vulnerability is used to recover the cleartext master password from a memory dump. This can be achieved regardless of whether the KeePass workspace is locked or if the program is completely closed. It is important to note that the successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires an attacker to have already co...
Reported January 30, 2002, by Microsoft. Windows NT 4.0 A vulnerability exists in Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 domains that lets an attacker gain administrative access to computers in a trusting domain. This vulnerability stems from the fact that the trusting domain doesn't verify that the trusted domain is actually...
802.11 attack tool will allow modules to send kernel or nonkernel exploits. The Metasploit Project plans to add, sometime during the week of Oct. 30, 802.11 (Wi-Fi) exploits to a new version of its point-and-click attack tool, a move that simplifies the way wireless drivers and devices are exploited. The controversial ...
CheckPoint recently published a new report that chronicled the UAE threat landscape over the past six months. In the report, the company identified that the most common vulnerability exploit type was Remote Code Execution RCE, which impacted 62% of businesses. This finding is not at all surprising. From an attacker’s p...
This vulnerability was detected using the information from phpinfo() page. When the “allow_url_include” option is enabled, it is possible to retrieve data from remote places such as servers for uploading files (FTP) or websites using functions like “fopen”. If a user’s input is not being validated properly, we may be e...
Last Updated on July 23, 2021 by InfraExam 312-50v10 : Certified Ethical Hacker v10 Exam : Part 16 Session splicing is an IDS evasion technique in which an attacker delivers data in multiple, smallsized packets to the target computer, making it very difficult for an IDS to detect the attack signatures. Which tool can b...
Nmap, also known as Network Mapper is a tool that is used to check port scanning. Along with it, this free and open-source software also does network mapping and vulnerability checking. The tool scans IP addresses and detects installed applications. It also helps network admins to find out which devices are running on ...
5 Invaluable Plans of Action We Learned From the 2017 WannaCry Ransomware Attack Lazarus, the shadowy North Korean group, considered by many as a ‘criminal hacking contractor’, believed to be the developer of the original WannaCry ransomware, is considered to be the mastermind behind the largest ransomware attack in th...
CVE-2014-9568 - Potential information leakage in puppetlabs-rabbitmq facts handling Posted January 27, 2015 Assessed Risk Level: Low An issue exists in puppetlabs-rabbitmq where the content of ‘/var/lib/rabbitmq/.erlang.cookie' is added to a node's facts. A non-privileged local user could access the RabbitMQ Erlang coo...
|Check Point Reference:||CPAI-2018-1143| |Date Published:||6 Dec 2018| |Last Updated:||6 Jan 2019| |Protection Provided by:|| |Who is Vulnerable?||QRadar Security Information and Event Manager (SIEM)| |Vulnerability Description||An authentication bypass exists in IBM QRadar SIEM. This vulnerability is due to a combinat...
Brontok.AI is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files. It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy: It sends the gathered information to a remote user by any available means: email, FTP, etc. It reduces the security level of the com...
VPNFilter malware advisory The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is aware of a newly identified threat known as VPNFilter. CERT NZ has published an advisory for this malware, which primarily targets a range of network devices used by small businesses or home offices. The malware has a range of capabilities and it t...
New Chinese Malware Found To Be Difficult To Remove From A PC FROM THE MEDIA: Kaspersky’s security researchers have found another malware, MoonBounce, that can infect a computer’s UEFI firmware. Researchers believe the malware is from APT41, a cyber-espionage group working for the Chinese government. Unlike other bootk...
A new attack on smart TVs allows a malicious actor to take over devices using rogue DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial) signals, get root access on the smart TV, and use the device for all sorts of nasty actions, ranging from DDoS attacks to spying on end users. Scheel’s method, which he recently presented...
The Agent.ZC is a nasty computer worm that is classified as a dangerous Trojan infection. This is a deadly dangerous computer virus that can destroy your system completely. The hackers use spam emails, hacked web pages, removable storage devices, social websites, file sharing networks, and free downloads from untrusted...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The threat landscape is growing, and professional cybercriminals are increasingly becoming more dangerous as their methods develop in complexity and sophistication. Although threat actors leverage different techniques, they all have a common goal: to find a...
[ASA-201910-4] ruby-rdoc: cross-site scripting anthraxx at archlinux.org Thu Oct 3 19:16:44 UTC 2019 Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201910-4 Date : 2019-10-02 CVE-ID : CVE-2012-6708 CVE-2015-9251 Package : ruby-rdoc Type : cross-site scripting Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1041 The package ru...
According to U.S. and U.K. cybersecurity agencies, a threat actor known as Sandworm or Voodoo Bear is using a new malware called Cyclops Blink, a large-scale modular malware framework that is affecting network devices. The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...
Several new viruses, though not ranked high on the threat scale, are newsworthy because they have implemented new and interesting technologies. The Romeo and Juliet virus exploits a Microsoft Outlook security hole discovered by bug hunter Georgi Guninski. Also called "BleBla" by some antivirus firms, it can infect user...
While DNS is one of the most commonly used network protocols in most corporate networks, many organizations don’t give it the same level of scrutiny as other network protocols present in their environments. Attackers have recognized this and have begun increasingly abusing DNS to establish command and control channels,...
21 December 2015 Protect yourself against future threats. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2015.3182 Vulnerability in Java Deserialization Affecting Cisco Products 21 December 2...
SMB Relay Attack is a type of attack which relies on NTLM Version 2 authentication that is normally used in most companies. Unfortunately, when we are listening to what is going on in the network, we’re able to capture a certain part of the traffic related to the authentication and also relay it to the other servers. W...
Ransomware actors are laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through pseudo-legitimate cryptocurrency exchanges, while early-stage malware that is often used to facilitate their attacks have become the most popular forms of malware in the world. According to new analysis from Check Point, Emotet was the most popula...
How to Detect CVEs Using Nmap Vulnerability Scan Scripts Nmap is widely known for its famous port mapping capabilities — we love it, and even included it in our best port scanners article a few months ago. Still, it would be quite unfair to reduce Nmap to nothing more than a “network mapper” or “port scanner.” Top 10 H...
Request IP, as one of the user’s identity attributes, is a very important basic data. In many scenarios, we will do network security attack prevention or access risk control based on the client request IP. Usually, we can get the real IP through the X-Forwarded-For header in the HTTP protocol Request Headers, but is it...
Last week, security experts based in Hong Kong succeeded in taking out a key piece of the Koobface botnet, only to have it pop up in China. Koobface, which uploads stolen user names and passwords to a remote server, was taken down by the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) last week....
‘Pen-Tested’ by a Hacker: What to Believe When actors from the Babuk ransomware gang announced the start of their operations on underground forums in 2021, they advertised their services as special software to “show the security issues inside corporate networks.” As the ransomware-as-a-service (RAAS) landscape has expl...
Configure a data source connection proxy Grafana provides support for proxying data source connections through a Secure Socks5 Tunnel. This enables you to securely connect to data sources hosted in a different network than Grafana. To make use of this functionality, you need to deploy a socks5 proxy server that support...
Data Breach Summary In the ever-vigilant world of cybersecurity, even giants can stumble. Tencent, the renowned Chinese tech behemoth celebrated for its online services, gaming, and social networks, found itself ensnared in the tentacles of a digital breach. Discovered on September 1, 2023, this breach was orchestrated...
We’ve all heard about it, and perhaps even experienced it — the resistance and potential issues with keeping our operating systems updated. Whether it’s a home user or businesses, each may have their own reasons for not updating their operating systems. And no one can force them. However, with Windows 7 losing support ...
Considering that there are two utilities named DNScat, this one particular will be referred to as DNScat-P in this paper to distinguish it from the other a single. DNScapy DNScapy was produced by Pierre Bienaime. It uses Scapy for packet technology. DNScapy supports SSH tunneling more than DNS together with a Socks pr...
The fact that more and more network traffic is encrypted is a good thing as it helps to protect our data. And as the use of TLS encryption increases, so does the number of network device vendors who deploy in-line and are adding MITM decryption capability that can mirror decrypted network traffic to QRadar Network Insi...
The exploits for these vulnerabilities operated in tandem. First, the victim was slipped a malicious script that a hole in Internet Explorer 11 allowed to run; and then a flaw in the system service further escalated the malicious process’s privileges. As a result, the attackers were able to take control of the system. ...
VMware report finds more than half of Cobalt Strike users are using the tool illicitly PALO ALTO, Calif. – As the most common cloud operating system, Linux is a core part of digital infrastructure and is quickly becoming an attacker’s ticket into a multi-cloud environment. Current malware countermeasures are mostly foc...
Hackers compromised companies in more than 30 countries with the aim of gathering information on individuals in government, law-enforcement and politics, according to a report from Investigators at U.S.-Israeli cyber firm Cybereason. Cybereason’s chief executive, Lior Div, told Reuters that the hackers used tools that ...
Spyware is a pest no matter which way you think about it. Whether itís causing you to have numerous pop-ups or it is consuming all of your system resources; spyware is a menace to be reckoned with. I was a resident computer consultant for East Carolina University for four years, and during that time the majority of the...
Mostly people don't use ETTERCAP for a DOS attack. But its Kali Linux. Ettercap provides a good DOS against any type of target. Here is a tutorial. (above is a video tutorial you can refer to) Steps and instructions - * Kali Linux installed. * A good internet connection. * A target IP address. What is Ettercap ????? Et...
Jan 13, 2020 · GitHub-hosted malware calculates Cobalt Strike payload from Imgur pic ... Several working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability are already ... 31st January 2020: 11 ... The Chrome release (v80.0.3987.122) fixing CVE-2020-6418 and two other high-risk flaws was released for ...
An immense phishing campaign targeting Google accounts hit a wide array of journalists, government employees, academics and private company email accounts. This is what the attack looks like: The email has been landed in newsrooms from BuzzFeed to ABC, at universities and reportedly from addresses within the Chicago ci...
I have some general questions regarding the “Security Coprocessor (TSEC)” referenced in the Tegra K1 Technical Reference Manual. Can TSEC be used with the Dev Kit? Can it be used to securely hold, control access to and allow use of secure data (passwords, keys, etc) without placing them into memory? If so, how can this...
ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: Interactive Graphical SCADA System (IGSS) Software Vulnerability: DLL Hijacking Schneider Electric reports that the vulnerability affects the following IGSS HMI desktop application: An attacker who exploits this vulnerabil...
A new malware ‘Glupteba’ threatens the security of Windows systems. This sneaky malware remains hidden as it continues to create a backdoor in compromised Windows devices. Glupteba Windows Malware Researchers from Sophos Labs have discovered a new malware in the wild that targets Windows devices. Dubbed Glupteba, this ...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a security advisory today warning of a wave of attacks carried out by hacking groups affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). CISA says that over the past year, Chinese hackers have scanned US government networks for the presence...
During a recent application penetration test on behalf of a client, one of the security vulnerabilities discovered was a stored cross-site scripting vector, delivered via a JSON request to a MVC3 controller. The malicious data (in this case a simple script tag proof-of-concept) was written to the database and subsequen...
Check Point’s latest Global Threat Index has revealed crypto miners were an increasingly prevalent form of malware during October as organizations were targeted with the CoinHive variant Crypto mining is emerging as a silent, yet significant, actor in the threat landscape, allowing threat actors to extract substantial ...
Invisible Things Lab (founded by Joanna Rutkowska, who came up with the controversial Blue Pill) has released the Evil Maid tool. This tool is aimed at grabbing the passwords needed to decrypt entire hard drives using TrueCrypt. The simplest mitigation factor from their list would be to physically secure the laptop whe...
Google has disclosed that a now-patched vulnerability influencing Android gadgets that use Qualcomm chipsets is currently being weaponized by attackers to start focused attacks. Tracked as CVE-2020-11261 (CVSS score 8.4), the flaw issues an “improper input validation” issue in Qualcomm’s Graphics element that could be ...
Backdoor:Win32/Blazgel.A is malicious computer backdoor that makes use of the vulnerabilities of the security software and network channel to infect target computers. Backdoor:Win32/Blazgel.A can be integrated into other software or be attached to emails so computer users usually download the virus unintentionally and ...
Microsoft Office isnt the only word-processing software at risk of zero-day hacker attacks. According to a warning from anti-virus vendor Symantec, attackers are exploiting a previously undocumented vulnerability in Ichitaro, a word processor produced by Justsystems, a Japanese software company. Ichitaro, which is wide...
Is it possible to clone an RFID/NFC card using a simple RFID reader, for future reuse and impersonation? NFC devices which do not use either public key crypto, encrypted tokens or HMAC tokens or similar cryptographic mechanisms where there is a secret that never leaves the device, they can all be impersonated. Simple d...