Talos has identified two different versions of a RAT, otherwise known as a remote access trojan, that has been written entirely in Python and is wrapped into a standalone executable. The RAT is impacting users of a Brazilian public sector management school.
Source: talosintelligence.com
Unauthorized mobile phone number porting is not a new problem, but T-Mobile said it began alerting customers about it earlier this month because the company has seen a recent uptick in fraudulent requests to have customer phone numbers ported over to another mobile provider’s network.
Source: krebsonsecurity.com
Wandera, a mobile security firm which spotted weaknesses in the CBS Sports app and mobile site back in 2016, uncovered the malware when a user clicked on an ad for the Chinese search engine Baidu. Their action redirected them to huxiawang[dot]cn, a distribution site which contains landing pages encouraging users to download one of 53 apps tainted by RedDrop. Those affected programs claim to help users learn a new language or dive into space exploration, for example, with engaging functionality.
China censored the letter N from its internet for at least a day. The ban came as China cracked down on online discussion over the Chinese Communist Party’s proposal to scrap presidential term limits. Abolishing term limits would allow President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely.
It’s not entirely clear why the government targeted N, but we have a few theories.
A deep analysis of the Mobef ransomware revealed that it implements a number of functionalities, such as the capability to encrypt files, not only on the local drive but also on removable drives and network shares.
Source: securityaffairs.co
In this project you will find a full implementation of the “bpf” kernel exploit for the PlayStation 4 on 4.55. It will allow you to run arbitrary code as kernel, to allow jailbreaking and kernel-level modifications to the system. This release however, does not contain any code related to defeating anti-piracy mechanisms or running homebrew.
This exploit does include a loader that listens for payloads on port 9020 and will execute them upon receival.
The WordPress plugin WooCommerce runs on approximately 2,300,000 live websites1 and is currently the most prominent eCommerce platform used on the Web. During our research we discovered a PHP object injection vulnerability in WooCommerce that allows to escalate privileges. The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to the Automattic security team and was fixed last year with the release of version 3.2.4.
In this blog post we investigate how recent changes in the WordPress core database driver opened the doors for this vulnerability. Furthermore, we describe how the circumstances could be exploited with a unique and interesting injection technique.
Honeytrap is an extensible and opensource system for running, monitoring and managing honeypots.
Source: github.com
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