Hotspot Shield VPN is NO more Secure, Leaking Users Location

2/28/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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A security researcher has found that one of the world’s largest <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/VPN" target="_blank">Virtual Private Network (VPN)</a> providers is leaking users private information. Hotspot Shield, which has been downloaded over half a billion times and has been in operation for over a decade, has a bug which can reveal what country a user is located in, as well as leak the name of the WiFi network they are using. The <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerability </a>in Hotspot Shield’s VPN service was discovered by Paulos Yibelo. Yibelo reported his findings to Beyond Security’s SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program.<br />
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“By <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Information%20Disclosure" target="_blank">disclosing information</a> such as WiFi name, an attacker can easily narrow down or pinpoint where the victim is located,” Paulos Yibelo told. When an attacker knows what country a Hotspot Shield VPN user is from, they “can narrow down a list of places” their victim is from, Yibelo said. The vulnerability in Hotspot Shield’s VPN service was tested using a proof-of-concept code that Yibelo wrote. Using Yibelo’s code they were able to identify users WiFi networks, and the vulnerability kept working when tried from different computers and different network.<br />
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Yibelo was able to write his proof-of-concept code very quickly, and it is only a few lines long. The code exploits a vulnerability in the local web server installed by Hotspot Shield. Private information and configuration data are returned when the exploit calls a JavaScript file being hosted on the web server. The private information of Hotspot Shield VPN users could be captured and stored from an infected website. According to Yibelo, he was able to successfully obtain Hotspot Shield VPN users IP addresses, though he was only having mixed results and was not always able to successfully capture real IP addresses. <br />
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The developer of <b>Hotspot Shield VPN</b>, AnchorFree, Inc., is strongly denying that any user’s real IP addresses are being leaked through the vulnerability discovered by Paulos Yibelo. “We have reviewed and tested the researcher’s report. We have found that this vulnerability does not leak the user’s real IP address or any personal information, but may expose some generic information such as the user’s country. We are committed to the safety and security of our users, and will provide an update this week that will completely remove the component capable of leaking even generic information,” AnchorFree’s Tim Tsoriev said in a statement.<br />
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After Yibelo discovered the vulnerability in Hotspot Shield VPN, he reported it to AnchorFree in December of last year but never received a response from the company. Yibelo then submitted the vulnerability to Beyond Security through their bug bounty program. Beyond Security also did not receive a response from AnchorFree. However, in February, AnchorFree finally addressed the issue with a new version of Hotspot Shield VPN which was recently released. The new version of Hotspot Shield VPN patches the vulnerability discovered by Yibelo.<br />
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Last year Hotspot Shield VPN was accused by the Center for Democracy & Technology of selling their customers private information. A formal complaint was filed with the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in which they allege that Hotspot Shield was guilty of employing unfair and deceptive trade practices. AnchorFree claimed that they did not collect any personal information about Hotspot Shield VPN users. Hotspot Shield VPN comes in both a free version, as well as a paid “Elite Version” subscription. The Center for Democracy & Technology discovered that Hotspot Shield VPN was sharing information after analyzing the VPN using Carnegie Mellon University’s Mobile App Privacy Compliance automated system on the free version of the Hotspot Shield VPN service.<br />
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Credit Card numbers worth $3.6 million out on Sale

2/27/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Russian computer hackers operating in Colorado and 15 other states used data-mining <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares" target="_blank">viruses </a>to steal thousands of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Credit%20Card" target="_blank">credit card</a> numbers from U.S. residents in 20 states and sold them on the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Darknet" target="_blank">darknet </a>for more than $3.6 million, according to federal court documents.<br />
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As part of the wide-scale criminal operation, so-called “<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Carding" target="_blank">carders</a>” from Russia advertised and sold the numbers to Ukrainian operatives using the <b>Rescator network of websites</b> — named for a Ukranian hacker who specializes in the sale of stolen credit cards.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers" target="_blank">Russian thieves</a> instructed clandestine organizations to pay for batches of stolen credit card numbers using <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/2018/02/western-union-money-transfer-hacked.html" target="_blank">Western Union</a> and <b>MoneyGram</b> International, according to documents filed by federal prosecutors in Denver U.S. District Court.<br />
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The documents did not indicate whether anyone has been arrested in connection to the scheme. Agents from the Department of Homeland Security based in Colorado uncovered the operation. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado filed forfeiture claims Friday against two Colorado bank accounts, the documents reveal.<br />
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Criminals use software to access hidden websites and blogs on the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Darknet" target="_blank"><b>darknet </b></a>so they can operate <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Anonymous" target="_blank">anonymously</a>. As part of their investigation, Homeland Security agents made undercover purchases of batches of stolen credit cards. <br />
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A web of conspirators in Colorado and 15 other states funneled money back to accounts set up in the Russian Federation.<br />
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<b>MoneyGram </b>officials contacted Homeland Security agents in November of 2014 and notified them of <b>137 wire transfers totaling $170,000</b>. The agents determined in March of 2016 that conspirators wired money to payees in the Ukraine, the documents indicate. In 2015 and 2016, conspirators allegedly sent <b>3,997 wires totaling $3,598,160</b>, records indicate.</div>

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Winter olympics was not Hacked by North Korea but Russian Military

2/26/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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We already knew that the opening ceremony of the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/2018/02/winter-olympics-website-hacked.html" target="_blank">Winter Olympics</a> in Pyeongchang, South Korea was hit by a cyberattack. Now it appears we know the culprit: Russian military spies.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Military" target="_blank">Russian military spies</a> hacked hundreds of computers used by Winter Olympics organizers and tried to make it look like the work of North Korea, the Washington Post reported Sunday, quoting US intelligence sources.<br />
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South Korea had previously announced that it was investigating the failure of several Olympic-linked internet sites and broadcast systems just as the opening ceremonies were taking place on February 9.<br />
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The Post reported that Russia's GRU military intelligence agency managed to take control in early February of 300 computers linked to the Olympic organization. As a result, many attendees were unable to print their tickets for the ceremony, leaving empty seats.<br />
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It said the Russians had hacked South Korean computer routers and inserted a form of "malware" that allowed them to gather data and paralyze the network. <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers" target="_blank">The Russians</a> used a North Korean internet provider to make it appear the attack originated in North Korea, in what is known as a "false flag" operation, the Post said.<br />
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While American officials quoted in the article were unable to say whether the hackers had activated the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares" target="_blank">malware</a>, they said the cyber attack against the Games -- from which Russia's team was excluded for doping -- was worrisome. <br />
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Some analysts believe the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime" target="_blank">cyber attack</a> was retribution for that ban. Some Russian athletes were allowed to compete, but only under the designation of "Olympic Athletes from Russia." <br />
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The Winter Games saw dramatic gestures aimed at easing the raw tensions dividing the two Koreas, as both countries' athletes marched together during the opening ceremonies, and they fielded a single women's ice hockey team. <br />
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The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un made several high-profile appearances in the early days of the Games, and a large squad of North Korean cheerleaders drew intense interest.  <br />
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Finally, at the Games' closing ceremony Sunday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean General Kim Yong Chol -- a man considered a "<b>war criminal</b>" by many in the South for his role in two deadly attacks on Southern targets -- exchanged a very public handshake.</div>

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2,000 Computers of Department of Telecom, Infected with Ransomware

2/25/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/SamSam" target="_blank">SamSam</a> ransomware made the headlines again, this time it infected over 2,000 computers at the Colorado Department of Transportation (DOT). The DOT has shut down the infected workstations and is currently working with security firm McAfee to restore the ordinary operations. Officials confirmed the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Ransomeware" target="_blank">ransomware </a>requested a bitcoin payment.<br />
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“The Colorado Department of Transportation has ordered an estimated 2,000 employees to shut down their computers following a ransomware attack Wednesday morning.” wrote the CBS Denver.<br />
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The CDOT spokesperson Amy Ford said employees were instructed to turn off their computers at the start of business Wednesday after ransomware infiltrated the CDOT network. “We’re working on it right now,” added Ford.<br />
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The good news is that crucial systems at the Colorado DOT such as surveillance cameras, traffic alerts were not affected by the ransomware. David McCurdy, OIT’s Chief Technology Officer, issued the following statement:<br />
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“Early this morning state security tools detected that a ransomware virus had infected systems at the Colorado Department of Transportation. The state moved quickly to quarantine the systems to prevent further spread of the virus. OIT, FBI and other security agencies are working together to determine a root cause analysis. This ransomware virus was a variant and the state worked with its antivirus software provider to implement a fix today. The state has robust backup and security tools and has no intention of paying ransomware. Teams will continue to monitor the situation closely and will be working into the night.”<br />
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The Colorado DOT officials confirmed that the agency will not pay the ransom and it will restore data from backups.<br />
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The SamSam ransomware is an old threat, attacks were observed in 2015 and the list of victims is long, many of them belong to the healthcare industry. The attackers spread the malware by gaining access to a company’s internal networks by brute-forcing RDP connections.<br />
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Among the victims of the Samsam Ransomware there is the MedStar non-profit group that manages 10 hospitals in the Baltimore and Washington area. Crooks behind the attack on MedStar requested 45 <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Bitcoin" target="_blank">Bitcoins </a>(about US$18,500) for restoring the encrypted files, but the organization refused to pay the Ransom because it had a backup of the encrypted information.<br />
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In April 2016, the FBI issued a confidential urgent “Flash” message to the businesses and organizations about the Samsam Ransomware.<br />
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Back to the present, the Samsam Ransomware made the headlines in the first days of 2018, the malicious code infected systems of some high-profile targets, including hospitals, an ICS firm, and a city council.<br />
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Tinder Can be Hacked With Just A Phone Number

2/24/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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An easy-to-exploit bug has left Tinder accounts and private chats exposed to hackers, revealed a researcher this week.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Indian%20Hackers" target="_blank">Indian engineer</a> Anand Prakash, a serial bug hunter, said on Wednesday, 20 February, that a flaw in a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Facebook" target="_blank">Facebook</a>-linked program called Account Kit let attackers access profiles armed with just a phone number. Account Kit has been implemented on Tinder and it has been used by developers to let users log on to a range of apps using mobile details or email addresses without a password.<br />
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That should not have been enough for an account takeover by itself, but <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Tinder" target="_blank">Tinder</a>’s implementation of Account Kit had its own vulnerability. Tinder’s login system wasn’t verifying access tokens against their associated client ID, which meant anyone with a valid access token could take over an entire account. Chained together, the two <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerabilities </a>let researchers completely take over a Tinder account — with full access to the user’s profile and chats — starting from only a phone number.<br />
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According to Prakash, an ethical hacker known for finding bugs in popular websites, until recently, there was a crack in this process that could let hackers compromise "access tokens" from users' cookies. The attacker could then exploit a bug in Tinder to use the token, which stores security details, and log in to the dating account with little fuss.<br />
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Earlier this year, on 23 January, a different set of “disturbing” vulnerabilities were found in Tinder's <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Android" target="_blank">Android </a>and iOS apps by Checkmarx Security Research Team.<br />
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Experts said hackers could use them to take control of profile pictures and swap them for “inappropriate content, rogue advertising or other type of malicious content.” The firm claimed that nefarious attackers could “monitor the user's every move” on the application.<br />
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A bug within Tinder is problematic as the app boasts an estimated 50 million users worldwide with roughly 40 percent of them based in North America, and a million dates facilitated a week according to the website, along with 1.6 billion swipes a day.<br />
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Tinder declined to comment on the specifics of the report. “Security is a top priority at Tinder,” a representative said, “However, we do not discuss any specific security measures or strategies, so as not to tip off malicious hackers.”</div>

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After Nirav Modi, Hackers are targeting Punjab National Bank

2/23/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Punjab National Bank has reported a <b><a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Data%20Leak" target="_blank">data breach</a> affecting as many as 10,000 credit and debit card customers</b>, and security experts believe that sensitive information has been available for  purchase through a website for at least three months.<br />
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The disclosure will raise further questions about security levels at the bank, which is already under stress over a reported Rs 11,300 crore fraud involving fake letters of guarantee that were allegedly used by leading jeweller Nirav Modi to raise funds from banks. Two PNB employees allegedly colluded with Modi and his uncle in the scam.<br />
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<u>PNB was not aware of the data breach  until it was tipped off on Wednesday night</u> by CloudSek Information Security, a company registered in Singapore but mainly operating in Bengaluru, India, that monitors data transactions.<br />
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“We have a crawler that is deployed in the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Darknet" target="_blank">dark/deep web</a>. These are sites on the internet which are not indexed by Google or other major search engines. They are used to buy and sell sensitive data illegally,” said chief technical officer Rahul Sasi. “Our crawler detects any such data and sends it to a Machine Learning software that we have created. If this detects anything that is suspicious, and of interest to our clients, we immediately take action.”<br />
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He said CloudSek was unable to contact <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/PNB" target="_blank">PNB </a>after detecting the breach as it is not a customer at the bank, but eventually passed the details through a government agency. PNB’s Chief Information Security Officer T D Virwani confirmed it was working with the government to contain fallout from the release of the data, which was offered through a blackhat website.<br />
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Government officials who are aware of the breach said other relevant agencies had been alerted and they were trying to establish the extent of the problem. So far, they have discovered sensitive information from as many as 10,000 credit cards issued by the bank.<br />
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<b>This includes names, expiry dates, Personal Identification Numbers and Card Verification Values.</b> Sasi said two sets of data were released: some with CVV numbers and some without. The last date stamp on the data is January 29, 2018, indicating that the details are still current for thousands of card customers.<br />
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“We believe, on preliminary analysis, that the data has been available for at least three months. While this is yet to be firmly established, we are carrying out our forensic investigation,” said a government official familiar with the case. Virwani was asked to comment on the breach, but has not yet responded.<br />
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Investigators in both the private and government sectors are still trying to determine how the breach occurred. It is thought the data could have come from a laptop or mobile phone carried by a bank customer that was infected with a malicious code, or from a third party. Payment gateways also had access to the data.<br />
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But an investigator said it was more likely the bank’s security was compromised, as a large amount of data came from a single source.<br />
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“Usually these sites on the deep/dark web build up reputations on the authenticity of the data they sell illegally. This particular site has a very good reputation. They offer a sample size to buyers to establish their credentials before the sale is made. In this case they were <span class="highlight">offering to sell the data at US$4.90 per card</span>,” he reported.<br />
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Sasi said all options were possible, but there wasn’t enough information yet to be certain how the leak had taken place.<br />
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It is the second big data leak in recent years in India. In October 2016 more than 3.2 million <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Credit%20Card" target="_blank">credit and debit cards</a> issued by numerous banks had to be recalled after customers reported they were used illegally in China and other countries. An investigation revealed that computer systems of a private payment services firm that manages ATM machines for a large Indian bank had been hacked.</div>

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Multiple Zero-Day Vulnerabilities found in GitLab

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A security researcher hijacked hundreds of GitLab domains in just a few seconds by exploiting a weakness in how the company handles domain verification -- a security issue that the company has now fixed.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/GitLab" target="_blank">GitLab</a>, a web-based git repository manager that lets developers track and collaborate on source code and project development, also allows users to host their own content and projects with a custom domain name.<br />
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But the company said in a security notification on February 5 that no validation was being performed when a user added a custom domain to their GitLab accounts. In the little time that a custom domain points to a recently deleted or unclaimed GitLab repo that will be added later, the domain can be hijacked.<br />
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Edwin Foudil, known as EdOverflow, and founder of security consulting firm Penultimate, drew inspiration from a bug report submitted on February 1, which contained proof-of-concept code that listed vulnerable custom domains that were pointing to GitLab. GitLab marked the initial report as informative, which according to documentation means it contains "useful information but did not warrant an immediate action or a fix".<br />
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Because GitLab allows pointing an unlimited number of domains for a single repository, Foudil was able to write a short script weaponizing that initial code, allowing him to mass hijack a limitless number of domains. "This resulted in <b>700 hijacked domains and subdomains in under one minute</b>," he told ina interview. Not only that, any hijacked domain is prevented from creating a GitLab repository with that domain.<br />
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That was enough to catch GitLab's attention, with the company confirming that Foudil's "valuable report" was what "triggered our response" in releasing the security notification less than a day later. "I managed to escalate the issue to the point where the issue was in fact caused by GitLab," said Foudil. "GitLab allowed mass monitoring of domains prior to them even pointing to GitLab's IP address."<br />
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<span class="highlight">Foudil's report was publicly released late Wednesday after the company fixed the bug. </span><br />
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Foudil also said the attack isn't just limited to domains that his script could detect. Hijacking domains was as easy as scraping the domain names of thousands of high-ranking sites. Once a domain is taken over, the attacker can serve any content they want on that domain.<br />
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"The <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Exploit" target="_blank">exploits </a>are endless," Foudil said. He gave several examples where an attacker can hijack a subdomain to read and set cookies on other basenames. "I can even mine <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cryptocurrency" target="_blank">cryptocurrency</a>," he said.<br />
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Kathy Wang, director of security at GitLab, said in a phone call this week that the company took responsibility for the security issue. She added that the lack of domain verification is "a widespread problem across the industry". "Implementing domain verification is an exception not a rule -- so a lot of vendors have not yet done it," she said.<br />
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GitLab switched off the feature to add custom domains until a fix was made available. The company said it estimates the fix rollout will complete by the end of the month.</div>

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Tesla's Cloud Servers Hacked to mine Cryptocurrency

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Hackers have breached Tesla cloud servers used by the company's engineers and have installed malware that mines the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cryptocurrency" target="_blank">cryptocurrency</a>. The incident took place last year when hackers gained access to Tesla's Kubernetes server, an open-source application used by large companies to manage API and server infrastructure deployed on cloud hosting providers.<br />
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Cloud security firm RedLock —whose experts discovered the hacked server— said hackers found a "pod" inside the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Kubernetes" target="_blank">Kubernetes </a>console that stored login credentials for one of Tesla's AWS cloud infrastructure.<br />
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RedLock says the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/AWS" target="_blank">AWS </a>buckets appeared to have been storing sensitive data such as telemetry, but a Tesla Motors spokesperson told  in an email the data was from "internally-used engineering test cars only." While there's no evidence intruders stole any data, they did install a mining application that utilized the vast computational resources of Tesla's AWS servers to mine the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Monero" target="_blank">Monero cryptocurrency</a>.<br />
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A Tesla spokesperson told that the company received a notification about the incident and secured the server immediately. RedLock said today the incident took place because Tesla engineers forgot to secure the Kubernetes console with an access password.<br />
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"We maintain a bug bounty program to encourage this type of research, and we addressed this vulnerability within hours of learning about it," Tesla said. "The impact seems to be limited to internally-used engineering test cars only, and our initial investigation found no indication that customer privacy or vehicle safety or security was compromised in any way.”<br />
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It is very clear that these hackers knew what they were doing, as they set up a private mining pool to use for their illegal mining operations only, hid the mining pool behind CloudFlare, configured the mining software to listen for commands on a non-standard port, and throttled the mining software to use only a small portion of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Tesla" target="_blank">Tesla's</a> AWS CPU resources. All of these configuration changes were made to avoid detection. Because they used a custom mining pool, it is unclear how much money this hacker group made.</div>

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Hackers stole $1.8 mn from City Union Bank

2/19/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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A year after the SWIFT international bank transfer system enhanced its security, another breach has emerged: an Indian bank has confirmed that criminals gained access to its systems and made <span class="highlight">transfers totaling US$1.8 million.</span><br />
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The Kumbakonam-based City Union Bank <a href="https://www.cityunionbank.com/downloads/Press_Release_swift.pdf" target="_blank">issued a statement</a> on Sunday February 18, in response to local media speculation that three unauthorized transactions were initiated by staff. In it, the bank says it suffered an attack by <span class="highlight">“international cyber-criminals and there is no evidence of internal staff involvement”.</span> The statement says the transactions took place on or before February 7, when its reconciliation processes identified the three fraudulent transactions.<br />
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A transfer of $500,000 through Standard Chartered to a Dubai bank was blocked at the source. That's good news, of a sort, because SWIFT launched a scanning service designed to spot fraudulent transactions in April 2017, as part of its response to the 2016 incident that saw second-hand security kit used at Bangladesh Bank let attackers into the international funds transfer system. <span class="highlight">On that occasion, $81 million was transferred.</span> The attackers tried to steal over $1bn, but were thwarted by a typo in one of their attempted transfers.<br />
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SWIFT later warned banks to tighten their security.It remained a plum target, however, and in October 2017, a Taiwanese bank had $60 million pinched. Those funds were recovered, and the attackers arrested. It appears that SWIFT's dodgy-deal-detectors worked for the transfer to Dubai. But a second made it to a Turkish bank and $1m is still missing after being transferred through a Bank of America account to a Chinese destination and withdrawn by an unknown beneficiary.<br />
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The Indian consulate in Istanbul is assisting with efforts to recover funds from the Turkish transfer. City Union Bank added that its SWIFT system is back in operation with “adequate enhanced security”. Just how the alleged criminals exploited the Bank's previous security regime has not been revealed, so it is unknown if SWIFT or Union Bank is the source of the problem.</div>

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Thousands of Jenkins Servers Hacked to mine Monero

2/18/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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A hacker group has made over $3 million by breaking into Jenkins servers and installing malware that mines the Monero cryptocurrency.<br />
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Hackers are targeting <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Jenkins" target="_blank">Jenkins</a>, a continuous integration/deployment web application built in Java that allows dev teams to run automated tests and execute various operations based on test results, including deploying new code to production servers. Because of this, Jenkins servers are extremely popular with both freelance web developers, but also with large enterprises.<br />
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A cyber security research firm announced it uncovered the footprint of a large hacking operation targeting Jenkins servers left connected to the Internet.<br />
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<b>Hackers using Jenkins RCE flaw</b><br />
Attackers were leveraging <a href="https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2017-04-26/" target="_blank">CVE-2017-1000353</a>, a vulnerability in the Jenkins Java deserialization implementation that allows attackers to run malicious code remotely without needing to authenticate first. Hackers used this vulnerability to make Jenkins servers download and install a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Monero" target="_blank">Monero </a>miner (minerxmr.exe).<br />
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The miner was being downloaded from an IP address located in <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Chinese%20Hackers" target="_blank">China </a>and assigned to the Huaian government network. It is unclear if this is the attacker's server, or a compromised server used to host the miner on behalf of the hackers.<br />
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The attackers have been active for months. This has allowed them to mine and already <b>cash out over 10,800 Monero, which is over $3.4 million</b>, at the time of writing.<br />
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Researchers say the group appears to have compromised mostly Jenkins instances running on Windows operating systems.<br />
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<b>Over 25,000 Jenkins servers left exposed online</b><br />
Attackers aren't the only ones who've noticed the large number of Jenkins servers available online. In mid-January, security researcher Mikail Tunç published <a href="https://emtunc.org/blog/01/2018/research-misconfigured-jenkins-servers/" target="_blank">research</a> highlighting that there were over 25,000 Jenkins servers left exposed to Internet connections at the time of his research.<br />
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Also on Friday, Researchers released new research on other hackers leveraging the <b>CVE-2017-10271</b> flaw to infect Oracle WebLogic servers with malware. This vulnerability has been under active exploitation <b>since early December 2017</b>, and one group has already made <b>more than $226,000</b>.<br />
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Besides Jenkins and <b>Oracle WebLogic</b> servers, hackers are also targeting <b>Ruby on Rails, PHP, and IIS </b>servers, also deploying Monero-mining malware.<br />
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Monero-mining malware is already this year's biggest <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares" target="_blank">malware trend/problem</a>, with numerous malware distribution campaigns spreading such payloads on any unsecured computer/server crooks can get their hands on.</div>

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Russian military involved in NotPetya attacks: UK

2/16/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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The UK government has officially accused the Russian government of June's disruptive and hugely costly NotPetya malware attack.</div>
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"The UK Government judges that the Russian government, specifically the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Millitary">Russian military</a>, was responsible for the destructive NotPetya cyber-attack of June 2017," Foreign Office minister for Cyber Security, Tariq Ahmad, said in a statement.</div>
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"The attack showed a continued disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty. Its reckless release disrupted organizations across Europe, costing hundreds of millions of pounds."</div>
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Initially, NotPetya was thought to be <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Ransomeware">ransomware</a>, but security researchers quickly concluded it was more likely to be destructive <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares">malware</a> designed to wipe systems.</div>
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The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today revealed it came to the same conclusion, noting that the malware was only masquerading as ransomware and its main purpose was to disrupt.</div>
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The NCSC said the Russian military was "almost certainly responsible" for the NotPetya attack.</div>
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Shipping container firm Maersk, FedEx's Dutch delivery subsidiary TNT Express, and UK firm Reckitt Benckiser were among global firms that suffered severe disruptions and several hundred million dollars in lost revenue. However, the <b>firms</b>, however, <b>were collateral damage in the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia</b>.</div>
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<b>NotPetya employed the NSA <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Exploits">exploits </a>for Windows known as EternalBlue and EternalRomance</b> as well as credential-dumping tools to spread internally across networks once one machine was infected. The exploits were leaked in April by The Shadow Brokers.</div>
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The malware<b> initially infected organizations via a compromised update from Ukraine</b> accounting software provider MEDoc. Its MEDoc software is one of two accounting packages required for companies doing business in Ukraine and is widely used by Ukraine agencies.</div>
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Maersk, which used MEDoc at its Ukraine offices, recently revealed it was forced to reinstall 45,000 PCs, 4,000 servers and 2,000 applications hit by NotPetya. The company reported losses of $300m due to the incident.</div>
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NCSC notes that Ukraine's financial, energy and government institutions bore the brunt of NotPetya. However, the "indiscriminate design" of the malware caused it to spread to other European and Russian businesses.</div>
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Though it is unusual to officially blame another nation for a cyber attack, the US and Five-Eye partners blamed the WannaCry ransomware attack on North Korea. The idea, in part at least, is to name and shame nation-state attackers for their actions.</div>
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<b>Russia and North Korea have consistently denied responsibility for the NotPetya, WannaCry, and other cyber attacks.</b></div>
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The UK's Ahmad said the Kremlin has positioned Russia in direct opposition to the West.</div>
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"It doesn't have to be that way. We call upon Russia to be the responsible member of the international community it claims to be rather than secretly trying to undermine it," he said.</div>
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"The United Kingdom is identifying, pursuing and responding to malicious cyber activity regardless of where it originates, imposing costs on those who would seek to do us harm."</div>
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Millions of android devices Hacked

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Western Union Money Transfer, Hacked

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Western Union has confirmed one of its IT suppliers was hacked, and that customer information was exposed to miscreants.</div>
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Someone, who wished to remain anonymous, showed us a copy of a letter dated January 31 that he received from the money-transfer outfit. The missive admitted that a supposedly secure data storage company used by Western Union was compromised: a database full of the wire-transfer giant's customer records was vulnerable to plundering, and hackers were quick to oblige.</div>
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"We have discovered that <b>some of your information may have been accessed without authorization as a result of a computer intrusion against an external vendor system formerly used by Western Union for secure data storage</b>," the letter read.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0000400543213px; line-height: 24.0000610351563px;">"We promptly moved our external secure storage to a different vendor's system. We immediately notified law enforcement, and are actively cooperating with its investigation. Expert assistance was also immediately engaged to determine what personal information may have been compromised."</span></div>
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In other words, it sounds as though a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cloud%20Storage">cloud-based</a> or off-site backup storage provider was hacked. Now that system has been shut down, the cops alerted, and digital forensics teams are probing the network intrusion.</div>
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"Upon detecting suspicious activity, Western Union permanently discontinued all use of the vendor's system and the system was taken offline," a spokesperson for Western Union told.</div>
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"<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Western%20Union">Western Union</a> took immediate action upon learning of this intrusion to notify law enforcement authorities. The company has notified affected individuals and regulators as appropriate. Affected individuals received a customized notification that explains the specific types of his or her personal data that may have been affected."</div>
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According to the letter, the storage archive contained customers' contact details, bank names, Western Union internal customer ID numbers, as well as transaction amounts, times and identification numbers. Credit card data was definitely not taken, it stressed.</div>
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<i>El Reg</i> tweeted a redacted copy of the letter earlier this week:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The </span><b style="font-size: 16px;">red-faced biz was quick to point out that none of its internal payment or financial systems were affected in the attack</b><span style="font-size: 16px;">. It also isn’t saying who the third-party storage supplier was, giving other customers of the slovenly provider time to check whether or not they have been hacked too.</span></div>
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Western Union says that, so far, it isn't aware of any fraudulent activity stemming from the data security cockup, but just to be on the safe side it is enrolling affected customers in a year of free <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Identity%20Theft">identity-fraud</a> protection. </div>
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Zero-day vulnerability found in Telegram

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Research conducted by Kaspersky showed that the zero-day flaw was based on the <a href="https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/202e/index.htm" target="_blank">RLO </a>(right-to-left override) Unicode method, which is generally used for coding languages written from right to left, such as Arabic and Hebrew. However, it can also be used by hackers to dupe unknowing recipients into downloading malware, for example disguised as images.<br />
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Kaspersky analysts identified “several scenarios of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Zero-Day" target="_blank">zero-day</a> exploitation in the wild by threat actors.” The threats identified were two-fold. First, the exploit was used to deliver mining software, allowing hackers to use the victim’s machine to mine <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/CryptoCurrency" target="_blank">cryptocurrency </a>including “Monero, Zcash, Fantomcoin and others.”<br />
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Second, a backdoor was installed allowing <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime" target="_blank">cybercriminals </a>to gain remote access to the victim’s computer after which it started to “operate in a silent mode,” allowing “the threat actor to remain unnoticed in the network and execute different commands, including the further installation of spyware tools.”<br />
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Kaspersky says its analysis suggests the cybercriminals are of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers" target="_blank">Russian </a>origin, and the company has offered some tips to protect your PC against attack.  These include not downloading and opening unknown files from untrusted sources, avoiding sharing sensitive personal information in messenger apps and making sure to have reliable antivirus software installed on your machine.<br />
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It appears that only Russian cybercriminals were aware of this <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerability</a>, with all the exploitation cases that we detected occurring in Russia. Also, while conducting a detailed research of these attacks we discovered a lot of artifacts that pointed to involvement by Russian cybercriminals.</div>

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New AndroRAT found, exploiting Rooting Vulnerability

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Trend Micro detected a new variant of Android Remote Access Tool (AndroRAT) (identified as ANDROIDOS_ANDRORAT.HRXC) that has the ability to inject root exploits to perform malicious tasks such as silent installation, shell command execution, WiFi password collection, and screen capture. This AndroRAT targets <a href="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1805">CVE-2015-1805</a>, a publicly disclosed vulnerability in 2016 that allows attackers to penetrate a number of older Android devices to perform its privilege escalation.</div>
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RATs have long been a common Windows threat, so <b>it shouldn't be a surprise that it has come to Android</b>. A RAT has to gain root access — usually by exploiting a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability">vulnerability </a>— in order to have control over a system.<b> Discovered in 2012, </b>the original authors intended AndroRAT — <a href="https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/androrat-remote-administration-tool-t2734932">initially a university project </a>— as an open-source client/server application that can provide remote control of an <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Android">Android </a>system, which naturally attracted cybercriminals.</div>
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This new variant of AndroRAT disguises itself as a malicious utility app called TrashCleaner, which is presumably downloaded from a malicious URL. The first time TrashCleaner runs, it prompts the Android device to install a Chinese-labeled calculator app that resembles a pre-installed system calculator. Simultaneously, the TrashCleaner icon will disappear from the device’s UI and the RAT is activated in the background.</div>
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The configurable RAT service is controlled by a remote server, which could mean that commands may be issued to trigger different actions. The variant activates the embedded root exploit when executing privileged actions. It performs the following malicious actions found in the original AndroRAT:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of system information such as phone model, number, IMEI, etc.</li>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of files on the device</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of list of running apps</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of SMS from device inbox</li>
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Apart from the original features of the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/AndroRAT">AndroRAT</a>, it also performs new privileged actions:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of mobile network information, storage capacity, rooted or not</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of list of installed applications</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of web browsing history from pre-installed browsers</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of calendar events</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Record calls</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upload files to victim device</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use front camera to capture high resolution photos</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Delete and send forged SMS</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Screen capture</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shell command execution</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of WiFi passwords</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Enabling accessibility services for a key logger silently</li>
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<b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Targeting CVE-2015-1805</i></b></div>
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Google already <a href="https://source.android.com/security/advisory/2016-03-18">patched </a>CVE-2015-1805 in March 2016,<b> but devices that no longer receive patches or those with a long rollout period are at risk of being compromised by this new AndroRAT variant. </b> Older versions of Android, which are still being used by a significant number of mobile users, may still be vulnerable.</div>
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<tr style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background: transparent; border: 1px dotted rgb(228, 228, 228); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word !important;" width="295">2441b5948a316ac76baeb12240ba954e200415cef808b8b0760d11bf70dd3bf7</td><td style="background: transparent; border: 1px dotted rgb(228, 228, 228); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word !important;" width="108">TrashCleaner</td><td style="background: transparent; border: 1px dotted rgb(228, 228, 228); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word !important;" width="187">com.cleaner.trashcleaner</td></tr>
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">Security firm Trustwave has disclosed the details of several vulnerabilities affecting Netgear routers, including devices that are top-selling products on Amazon and Best Buy.</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">The flaws were discovered by researchers in March 2017 and they were patched by Netgear in August, September and October.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">One of the high severity vulnerabilities has been described as a password recovery and file access issue affecting 17 Netgear routers and modem routers, including best-sellers such as R6400, R7000 (Nighthawk), R8000 (Nighthawk X6), and R7300DST (Nighthawk DST).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">According to Trustwave, the web server shipped with these and other Netgear routers has a resource that can be abused to access files in the device’s root directory and other locations if the path is known. The exposed files can store administrator usernames and passwords, which can be leveraged to gain complete control of the device.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw remotely if the remote management feature is enabled on the targeted device. Improperly implemented cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protections may also allow remote attacks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";"><b>Another high severity flaw affecting 17 Netgear routers, including the aforementioned best-sellers, can be exploited by an attacker to bypass authentication using a specially crafted reques</b>t. Trustwave said the vulnerability can be easily exploited.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">A flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges without authentication has also been classified as high severity. Trustwave said command injection is possible through a chained attack that involves a CSRF token recovery vulnerability and other weaknesses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">Two other command injection vulnerabilities have been found by Trustwave researchers, but they have been rated medium severity and they only affect six Netgear router models.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">One of the flaws requires authentication, but experts pointed out that an attacker can execute arbitrary commands after bypassing authentication using the aforementioned authentication bypass vulnerability.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">The other medium severity command injection is related to the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS). When a user presses the WPS button on a Netgear router, a bug causes WPS clients to be allowed to execute arbitrary code on the device with root privileges during the setup process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">“In other words, <b>if an attacker can press the WPS button on the router, the router is completely compromised</b>,” Trustwave said in an advisory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">Netgear has put a lot of effort into securing its products, especially since the launch of its bug bounty program one year ago. In 2017, the company published more than 180 security advisories describing vulnerabilities in its routers, gateways, extenders, access points, managed switches, and network-attached storage (NAS) products.</span></span></div>
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