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BuyBaseFactory Carder in the Prvtzone[.]ws Forum

Prvtzone[.]ws is a clear web marketplace and forum. The marketplace primarily sells stolen credit cards. In this forum, members (vendors and buyers) discuss the website purpose regarding stolen information. One seller, BuyBaseFactory (BBF), sells cards and stolen CC/CVV and dumps track 1 (TR1) and track 2 (TR2)[1] from the US, Europe, parts of South America and Africa.

Multiple Antenna House Vulnerabilities

Researchers have identified six vulnerabilities in the Antenna House Office Server Document Converter (OSDC).[1]  Antenna House Office Server Document Converter is a product designed to convert Microsoft Office documents into PDF and SVG type documents.  The vulnerabilities are used to remotely execute code on a vulnerable system.  The vulnerabilities identified are exploited to a locally execute code, or can even be accomplished remotely, if the product is used in batch mode by the user.  If co

The Rancor Hacking Group

The Rancor group is involved in highly targeted attacks, which are focused in South East Asia; specifically, in Singapore and Cambodia. Rancor uses two major Windows malware families named, “DDKONG” and “PLAINTEE”.

Data Breach of FastBooking Hotel Booking Service

FastBooking, a Paris-based company that sells hotel booking software to more than 4,000 hotels in 100 countries, had all its data stolen this month by an unknown attacker. Hotel guest personal identifying information (pii), travel dates and credit card information was taken. The breach took place on 14 June 2018 and took personal data in 58,003 leaks while credit card information was stolen in the remaining 66,960 cases.

WHAT DO I NEED TO GUARD AGAINST CYBER THREATS?

Cybersecurity threats are always changing.  Threats that target businesses are malware, phishing, ID theft, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, software threats, data diddling, password attacks, Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks, salami-slicing, IoT hacking, and cyber extortion.  These are the most common cyber threats that small business companies need to be protected against.  It is highly likely your business can reasonably prevent and mitigate many of these type cyber threats.

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Operation Prowli

Operation Prowli Operation Prowli is a traffic manipulation and cryptocurrency mining campaign infecting a wide number of organizations in critical infrastructure sectors such as finance, education and government. This campaign spreads malware and malicious code to servers and websites and has compromised more than 40,000 machines in multiple areas of the world. Impact The malware has already hit more than 40,000 victim machines from over 9,000 businesses in various domains; to include finance,

Patch Issued for Critical Adobe Flash Vulnerability

Patch Issued for Critical Adobe Flash Vulnerability Adobe has released a security patch update for a critical vulnerability in its Flash Player software. The malware is actively exploiting targeted attacks against Windows users. Adobe Flash player zero-day attacks have primarily been targeting users in the Middle East using a specially crafted Excel spreadsheet. The stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability, explained in CVE-2018-5002 , impacts Adobe Flash Player 29.0.0.171 and earlier versions

Anonymous Cyber Actors Claim Website Disruptions

A month ago, Anonymous (Anon #OpUSA) cyber actors reported they caused service outages on the websites of various US Government agencies, to include Department of Defense agencies. These claims were alleged by showing service outages for the public-facing websites of these US federal agencies. The alleged outages were false. The false reports are likely intimidation and propaganda techniques against the US government. In December 2017, Anon #OpUSA organizers initiated a call for action to plan a

To Reboot or Not, that is the Question: VPNFilter

Summary Wapack Labs highly recommends following US government guidelines to any owner of a small business or personal home office routers; to power cycle (reboot) their devices. International bad actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices. These bad actors use the VPNFilter malware to target small office and home office routers. This malware is able to perform multiple functions, including potential information collection, device exploita

Lazarus Group Update

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a current technical alert on the North Korea-linked threat group known as the government name: Hidden Cobra, or the cyber security name of the Lazarus Group. The Lazarus Group is highly suspected or conducting numerous high-profile attacks; to include targeting Sony Pictures, Bangladesh’s Central Bank and various financial organizations. The Lazarus Group’s campaigns are traced as Operation Blo

Spectre v4

Intel, Google, and Microsoft disclosed a new variant of the Spectre design flaw and security vulnerability that impacts millions of computers and mobile devices from a range of manufacturers. It is called Variant 4.Impact The CVE-2018-3639 – Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) is also known as Variant 4. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of i

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader.[1]  The most severe could allow for arbitrary code execution.  In computer security, "arbitrary code execution" is used to describe an attacker's ability to execute any command of the attacker's choice on a target machine or in a target process.  Adobe Acrobat and Reader allow15447763?profile=original a user to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).  Successful exploitation of the most severe of these

TLP: WHITE MS-ISAC CYBERSECURITY ADVISORY

MS-ISAC ADVISORY NUMBER: 2018-056 DATE(S) ISSUED: 05/14/2018 SUBJECT: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution (APSB18-09) OVERVIEW: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Adobe Acrobat and Reader allow a user to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Successful exploitation of the most seve

Cryptocurrency Mining Virus Spreading Through Facebook

Cryptocurrency Mining Virus Spreading Through Facebook Clicking on videos and links in Facebook may not always be safe. Caution should always be used when opening links, especially if they are from an unknown recipient. Researchers recently reported on a malicious Chrome extension which is spreading through Facebook Messenger to target users of cryptocurrency trading platforms to steal their credentials.

What is Process Doppelgänging and Why is it a Cyber Risk?

Doppelgänger is a German derived word for an apparition or double of a living person. Doppelgänging is a complex form of typosquatting. Process Doppelgänging is a code injection technique that disrupts the Microsoft Windows mechanism of New Technology File System (NTFS) transactions which create and hide malicious IT processes. This all in an attempt to avoid detection by antivirus software. Process Doppelgänging is a technique similar to the old Process Hollowing. The Process Doppelgänging tech