Magecart, the e-commerce payment card-skimming threat that has recently victimized Ticketmaster, British Airways, Newegg and other notable companies, is primarily comprised of six major active cybercriminal groups, according to a new joint research report. All of these groups use a version the same skimmer toolset, but they rely on different strategies and in some cases have…
Facebook earlier this year reportedly patched a vulnerability in its search page that could have allowed enterprising attackers to perform reconnaissance on certain users. In a company blog post today, Imperva security researcher Ron Masas wrote that Facebook fixed the issue shortly after he discovered the flaw back in May. Masas reportedly noticed that Facebook’s…
A WordPress plug-in that’s supposed to help with GDPR compliance contains a dangerous privilege escalation vulnerability that attackers have been actively exploiting to compromise websites. Known as the WP GDPR Compliance plug-in, the software module helps ensure compliance with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation by providing tools through which site visitors can permit use of their…
Android users who download from Google Play are less likely to install potentially harmful apps than those who download from unofficial third-party stores, according to the inaugural edition of Google’s quarterly Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report. The data published in the online report last Thursday was collected from users who enabled the Google Play Protect…
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reportedly plans to replace its method of scoring publicly disclosed vulnerabilities with a new automated process leveraging IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system. The agency expects Watson to supplant its current Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) process for most bugs by October 2019, according to a report…
A researcher has apparently found a way to exploit the new Group FaceTime feature in iOS 12.1 in order to access iPhone users’ contact information. The Hacker News has reported that Spanish researcher Jose Rodriguez made the discovery just hours after the release of version 12.1 last Oct. 31, and subsequently created a video of his…
A large-scale botnet malware operation has been targeting router equipment running vulnerable versions of the Broadcom Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) feature. Active since at least September 2018, malicious campaign appears to be infecting devices for the likely purpose of converting them into spam bots, according to a blog post yesterday from researchers at Qihoo’s…
Cisco Systems yesterday issued 17 security advisories, disclosing vulnerabilities in multiple products, including at least three critical flaws. One of them, a privileged access bug found in seven models of its Small Business Switches, has not yet been patched, but the company has recommended a workaround to limit its potential for damage. Designated CVE-2018-15439 with…
A malicious actor compromised the platform of leading web analytics firm StatCounter in a supply chain attack that targeted the cryptocurrency exchange gate.io with a bitcoin-stealing script. Outside of gate.io, none of the other two million-plus websites using StatCounter’s metrics services appear to have been affected by the malicious JavaScript, even if they downloaded it. That’s because the…
A spyware program fraudulently disguised as a Spanish-language banking app was found last month collecting users’ device data and messages, which were later leveraged in smishing schemes. Advertised as “Movil Secure,” the fake app pretends to be associated with multinational Spanish banking group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). Published on Oct. 19, the app was discovered by Trend…
