How I Shut Down a (Test) Factory with a Single Layer 2 Packet
At Rapid7 Labs we are always on the look for new research topics and fields to stick our fingers in...
Ffuf – Fast Web Fuzzer Written In Go
A fast web fuzzer written in Go.Heavily inspired by the great projects gobuster and wfuzz.FeaturesFast!Allows fuzzing of HTTP header values,...
Fileintel – A Modular Python Application To Pull Intelligence About Malicious Files
This is a tool used to collect various intelligence sources for a given file. Fileintel is written in a modular...
Genact – A Nonsense Activity Generator
Pretend to be busy or waiting for your computer when you should actually be doing real work! Impress people with...
Anti-Virus Maker Discovers A Bug within Ryuk Ransomware
An antivirus maker discovered a bug in the decrypter application of the Ryuk Ransomware, the application "the Ryuk gang" basically...
Fake Elder Scrolls Online developers go phishing on PlayStation
A player of popular gaming title Elder Scrolls Online recently took to Reddit to warn users of a phish via...
A week in security (December 2 – December 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at a new version of the IcedID Trojan, described web skimmers...
Please don’t buy this: smart doorbells
Though Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, the two shopping holidays were just precursors to the larger Christmas season—a...
Hundreds of counterfeit online shoe stores injected with credit card skimmer
There’s a well-worn saying in security: “If it’s too good to be true, then it probably isn’t.” This can easily...
Attacks on IoT devices and WebApps on an extreme rise for the Q3
Ransomware threats and Malware numbers have fallen but are presently more active and dangerous. More than 7.2 Billion virus attacks...
Pensacola City Hit by a Cyberattack After Deadly Shooting at Naval Air Station
The city of Pensacola, Florida was hit by a cyberattack that came in the wake of a deadly shooting at...
State of the Art Cyber-Security and Network Security a Top Priority for The Business Market
Reportedly, accepting the growing need for better cyber-security tactics and embracing a further developed regime for securing the businesses on...
The Ministry of Communications of Russia has developed a new service for the sale of cars
According to Deputy head of the Ministry of Communications Maxim Parshin, the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Internal...
Hackers steal money from cards through the Uber and VTB applications
A resident of Russia Anna Kozlova, resting in Spain, lost 14 thousand rubles ($220). The money was stolen from her...
Julian Assange arrested: WikiLeaks founder arrested in London
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Scotland Yard said. Home Secretary Sajid Javid...
CVE-2019-1663 | Cisco Routers – Critical 9.8 CVSS Score
Cisco is warning businesses that use its wireless VPN and firewall routers to install updates immediately due to a critical...
CVE-2019-1674 | New Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Found in Cisco WebEx Meetings
A vulnerability found in the update service of the Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop App for Windows could allow an unprivileged local attacker...
Chrome Zero-Day Exploited to Harvest User Data via PDF Files
Exploit detection service EdgeSpot says it has spotted several PDF documents that exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome to collect...
Government-funded researchers investigate vulnerabilities in EV charging stations
Charging stations for electric cars have sprung up across the country in recent years as hybrid vehicles continue to gain...
IBM’s X-Force says who needs malware, PowerShell FTW!
If anyone reading this works in InfoSec, as I do then you will know that a company's internal network, once...
New Golang brute-forcer discovered amid rise in e-commerce attacks
E-commerce websites continue to be targeted by online criminals looking to steal personal and payment information directly from unaware shoppers....
Online Bidding-Themed Phishing Campaigns Aims to Trick U.S. Federal Government Contractors
On February 23, 2019, Anomali Labs found a suspicious-looking subdomain transportationgovbidsynckelapw containing the legitimate domain transportation.gov for the U.S. Department...
High-Severity SHAREit App Flaws Open Files for the Taking
Two high-severity flaws in the SHAREit Android app allow an attacker to bypass the file transfer application’s device authentication mechanism...
Malware Triggers in Outlook Preview Without User Opening Word Document
A recent malware sample forwarded to our Threat Intelligence service had some very interesting properties which we think would be useful to...
