Millions of android devices Hacked

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Western Union Money Transfer, Hacked

2/14/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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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

2/13/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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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;">Take photos using the device camera</li>
<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 call logs including incoming and outgoing calls</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of mobile network cell location</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of GPS location</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of contacts list</li>
<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 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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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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The outage left users unable to print tickets or view information about the games. Some networks around the games venues also went down.</div>
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Speculation quickly suggested the outages were not accidental and at a Sunday evening news conference, Pyeongchang 2018 spokesperson Sung Baik-you confirmed they were caused by an attack.</div>
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<b>"We know the cause of that problem, but that kind of issues occur very frequently during the Olympic Games," he said. "We have decided with the IOC that we are not going to reveal the source."</b></div>
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International Olympics Committee (IOC) head of communications Mark Adams suggested the problem could be ongoing. He told the briefing "We wouldn't start giving you the details of an investigation before it has come to an end, particularly because it involves security which at these games is incredibly important. I am sure you appreciate we need to maintain the security of our systems."</div>
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"At the moment we are making sure our systems are secure, which they are, so discussing details of it is not helpful."</div>
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"This is normal practice," Adams insisted. "You will understand that maintaining secure operations is our focus. That's the focus of any organisation that has been hit by such a thing. An in line with best practice, which is industry practice, we are not going to comment on the issue because it is an issue we are dealing with."</div>
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Adams later added that the IOC has not identified the attacker and would not name them at a press conference, but promised a "full report" into the incident. He would not commit to making it public.</div>
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As North Korea has made peaceful overtures towards the South ahead of the games, <b>it's thought to be unlikely it's behind whatever attack hit the Games' website</b>.</div>
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The North has, however, assaulted the world with a 200-plus troupe of cheerleaders that performs choreographed song and dance routines in the stands at the games. The troupe is going a bit viral, a demonstration of the North's ability to distribute propaganda about its capabilities.</div>
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Millions of Netgear Routers Vulnerable

2/11/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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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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A security expert has managed to identify three <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability">vulnerabilities</a> on <a href="http://paypal-marketing.com/">paypal-marketing.com</a>, the website used by the payment processor for the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/PayPal">PayPal</a> Partner Program.<br />
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Behrouz Sadeghipour has found and reported a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/XSS">cross-site scripting (XSS)</a> issue, a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Remote%20Code%20Execution">remote code execution</a> flaw and an <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Information%20Disclosure">information disclosure vulnerability</a>.<br />
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Initially, the researcher found the XSS flaw, which he reported to PayPal’s security team on March 19. The XSS was addressed on April 9.<br />
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One day after the XSS was fixed, Sadeghipour identified an information disclosure issue, which he later leveraged for remote code execution. The expert said he was looking for an SQL Injection bug, but he found an RCE instead.<br />
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To demonstrate the existence of the RCE to PayPal, he sent the company’s security team three links showing that he could retrieve the Process ID (PID), the script owner’s Group ID (GID) and the script owner’s User ID (UID) by replacing a parameter in the request with <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/PHP">PHP</a> commands.<br />
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By April 11, PayPal had addressed the vulnerability. The company has promised to reward the researcher in the next payment cycle.<br />
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Sadeghipour highlights that the RCE he has found is a remote code execution, not a remote command execution bug. This vulnerability allows an attacker to run PHP functions. The flaw produces the same sort of results, but by leveraging PHP.<br />
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Check out the proof-of-concept video for the PayPal Partner Program vulnerabilities. Additional technical details are available on <a href="http://nahamsec.com/2014/04/paypal-marketing-remote-code-execution/">Behrouz Sadeghipour's blog</a>.<br />
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SQL Injection vulnerability in Yahoo

4/08/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Security researcher <strong>Behrouz Sadeghipour</strong> has identified several <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/SQL%20Injection">SQL Injection</a> <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability">vulnerabilities</a> in a Hong Kong subdomain of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Yahoo">Yahoo</a>. He reported his findings to the company and all the security holes have been fixed.<br />
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According to the expert, the flaws have been found in various files on the Hong Kong promotions subdomain (<a href="http://hk.promotions.yahoo.com/">hk.promotions.yahoo.com</a>). <br />
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He decided to analyze this subdomain because it contains a lot of Flash files and PHP scripts that could be vulnerable, and it doesn’t appear that the pages have been created by Yahoo’s core developers. <br />
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Furthermore, since the pages are in Chinese, it’s likely that they’re ignored by many auditors.<br />
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The expert has managed to identify a total of eight vulnerable files. Following his analysis of the Yahoo HK promotions subdomain, Sadeghipour sent 5 reports to the company. <br />
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The list of pages on which he found SQL Injection vulnerabilities includes the Emotive2012 page, the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Nikon">Nikon</a> Photo Itinerary page, and the Education page. By leveraging these bugs, the researcher managed to gain access to names, email addresses and other information.<br />
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Yahoo addressed the issues within a month after being reported. The expert has told me that the company has removed the vulnerable files. <br />
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As some of our readers might know, this isn’t the first time <strong>Sadeghipour</strong> finds serious vulnerabilities in Yahoo’s Hong Kong subdomains. Last month, he identified a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/2014/03/remote-code-execution-in-yahoo.html">remote code execution flaw</a>.<br />
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At the time, he found an administrator panel for the hk.yahoo.net subdomain that could be accessed with <span class="highlight pop">admin/admin</span> credentials. <br />
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For additional details on the SQL Injection vulnerabilities found in Yahoo, check out <a href="http://nahamsec.com/2014/04/yahoo-sql-injection/">Behrouz Sadeghipour‘s blog</a>. You can also check out the proof-of-concept videos he made for a couple of the flaws:<br />
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Syrian cyber space attacked, 60,000 accounts leaked

4/07/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Today a hacker from the European Cyber Army going by the handle <a href="https://twitter.com/Zer0Pwn" target="_blank">@Zer0Pwn</a> has announced a leak of data from two syrian based websites job.sy, realestate.sy.<br />
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<a href="http://pastebin.com/7Y13ULux">The leak</a> which is titled “ECA vs. Assad | Part 1″ was posted to <a href="http://pastebin.com/7Y13ULux">pastebin</a> with a preview of some of the users data and a link to <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/tqa737">sendspace</a>. The attack is apart of a bigger operation that is going on towards what the hackers are claim are pro-assad targets.<br />
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The data leak has resulted in over 60,000 Accounts being dumped online and between the two databases are users credentials which have encrypted passwords for job.sy but plaintext for realestate.sy. Both databases have full user details such as full names, contact phone numbers and home addresses. On the march 30th career-sy.com appears to of been breached and <a href="http://pastebin.com/wLJhHNd8">posted to pastebin</a> as well with 3 administrator credentials as well as the vuln entry point and link for the control panel login which is located on the job.sy server which career-sy.com redirects to now.<br />
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Some attacks by other ECA members have been carried out and posted to twitter by <a href="https://twitter.com/ECA_Legion">@ECA_Legion</a> with data being leaked from syrianmonster.com, a syrian hosting website, ddos attacks on sites like syria-courts.com, sana.sy and moj.gov.sy. banquecentrale.gov.sy. The leak of data from the realestate.sy database appears to have plaintext passwords to accounts linked to www.scs-net.org which is one of the job.sy official partners to making all three sites linked together or even owned and operated by the same people possibly.<br />
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Full dump info<br />
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<a href="http://realestate.sy/">http://realestate.sy/</a><br />
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File realestate.sy_users.sql<br />
File Contents:  3,257 Emails that are unique out of 3,517 Total emails Found.<br />
Information: Contains user names,email addresses, clear text passwords, full names, phone numbers, locations and site related information.<br />
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File realestate.sy.sql<br />
File Contents: 4,912 Emails that are unique out of 13,223 Total emails Found.<br />
Information: Complete internal messaging system, site logs and administrator login logs with ips and cookie information.<br />
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<a href="http://job.sy/">http://job.sy/</a><br />
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File job.sy_users.sql<br />
File Contents: 50,017 Emails that are unique out of 52,483 Total emails Found. Included in the job.sy.sql file as well.<br />
Information: Contains user names, encrypted MD5 passwords, email addresses, home addresses and contact numbers and full names as well as other site related information.<br />
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File job.sy.sql<br />
File Contents: 59,575 Emails that are unique out of 84,343 Total emails Found.<br />
Information: Contains logs with ip addresses and browser information, messages between job seekers and employees between, min resumes, job comments<br />
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<a href="http://syrianmonster.com/">http://syrianmonster.com</a><br />
Only contains 1 administrator account with username and password.<br />
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<a href="http://career-sy.com/">http://career-sy.com/</a><br />
3 administrator credentials with user names and encrypted passwords.</div>
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GitHub under DDoS Attack

3/21/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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It’s pretty clear that <a href="https://github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub</a> is one of the favorite targets for <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/DDoS">distributed denial-of-service</a> (DDOS) attacks. The service is currently facing another attack wave. <br />
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“We are currently working to mitigate an incoming DDoS attack. We’ll provide additional information as it becomes available,” GitHub <a href="https://status.github.com/messages" target="_blank">wrote</a> just a few minutes ago.<br />
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The code repository hasn’t shared any additional details in the meantime and may not even do so if the attack isn’t much more serious than the regular DDOS attacks targeting it.<br />
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GitHub handles such situations so often that it has gotten so accustomed to mitigating them that access to the service is usually restored within about 20 minutes.<br />
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The service is armed with enough weapons to handle volumetric and complex attacks, so everything should be back to normal in no time.<br />
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Last week, they faced one of the biggest attacks in recent months and, as a result, GitHub started working on ways to improve its DDOS mitigating capabilities to make sure that even uncommon operations could be blocked quickly, so that users could get their service back.<br />
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On March 11, the attack was so wide that GitHub went down for 2 hours, a lot more than the regular 20 minutes that people are used to.<br />
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<strong>[UPDATE 1:]</strong> The efforts to reduce the number of legitimate users who are flagged as attack traffic continues.<br />
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<strong>[UPDATE 2:]</strong> GitHub is back to working order. </div>

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Toyota, Renault and Chevrolet Hacked by Pakistani Hackers

3/19/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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<em><a href="http://zone-h.com/archive/notifier=Algeriano" target="_blank">Algeriano</a></em> a hacker from Team Cyber Criminals a group of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Pakistani%20Hackers" target="_blank">Pakistani hackers</a> hacked worlds leading automobile companies domains reserved for Guatemala including <a href="http://www.toyota.com.gt/" target="_blank">Toyota</a> , <a href="http://www.renault.com.gt/" target="_blank">Renault</a> and <a href="http://www.chevrolet.com.gt/" target="_blank">Chevrolet</a> , Attacker didn't mention any reason to deface websites. <br />
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“Hacked by Algeriano. TOYOTA & RENAULT & CHEVROLET Guatemala hacked. Cyber Criminals Was Here,” the attacker wrote on the defaced websites.<br />
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This message indicates that the hacker simply wanted to show off. The sites don’t appear to be storing any sensitive customer information. However, such an attack can still impact a company’s image.<br />
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At the time of writing, all of the websites have been restored. They appear to have been restored within 24 hours after the breach took place. <a href="http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/22028173" target="_blank">Mirrors of the defacements</a> are available on Algeriano’s zone-h.org page. <br />
In this case, all of the three websites appear to have been developed by the same company for a car distributor. The most likely scenario is that the sites have been plagued by the same <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerability</a>, which the hacker easily exploited to deface them. <br />
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Hopefully, the company that manages the sites has addressed the security holes, but it’s unlikely. The <a href="http://zone-h.com/archive/domain=www.toyota.com.gt" target="_blank">Toyota Guatemala website was previously defaced</a> back in 2009, 2011 and 2013 by various hackers.
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Russian Intelligence and Spy Company SearchInform Hacked, Data Leaked

3/13/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Today Russian hacktivist <a href="https://twitter.com/Rucyborg" target="_blank">@Rucyborg</a> has announced a leak of data from Searchinform and sent a message out to its director.<br />
The leak was <a href="https://twitter.com/Rucyborg/status/443468396068610050" target="_blank">announced</a> a couple of hours ago via twitter and posted to <a href="http://cyberguerrilla.org/" target="_blank">cyberguerrilla.org</a> with a message which states that the hackers have had access to <a href="http://searchinform.ru/" target="_blank">searchinform.ru</a> since as far back as 2012 and that they have infected  download links. The leak was uploaded to <a href="http://bayfiles.net/file/18L8Z/dICvHg/sinformru.rar" target="_blank">bayfiles</a> and is part 2 of an <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/2014/03/cyber-attacks-on-ukraine.html" target="_blank">on going assault on Russia</a> in relation to the recent drama that putin has been creating.<br />
<a href="http://searchinform.com/about/full-text-search-company.html" target="_blank">Searchinform</a> is one of them sneaky company’s with an even more sneaky product which allows snooping on others, while in this day and age is not so surprising but the extent which they do go to is pretty extensive and really does pose a huge security risk to one if the wrong person was to be using it. They offer work time monitors, full-on network sniffers designed at modern day communications over social medias, microphone sniffers for recording employees and a <a href="http://searchinform.com/main/full-text-search-information-security-product.html" target="_blank">whole range of other products</a>.<br />
Data leaked is in a 382MB compressed file that contains well over 3000 files which include instructions and usage information, also it appears to have copies of searchinform for clients and basic new client setup information. In normal fashion there has been a <a href="http://searchinform.com/main/full-text-search-information-security-product.html" target="_blank">imgur gallery</a> created with a preview of the contents of this leak which can be found below, i have also added a couple of screen shots of the contents of the uncompressed leak data.<br />
The message on  <a href="http://cyberguerrilla.org/" target="_blank">cyberguerrilla.org</a> also has a direct message for the CEO of SearchInform.<br />
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Our message to SearchInform.ru – director Ozhegov – you are a bunch of FSB bastadz – leaking information to all the counterparts and outsiders – you provide so called CONTUR of Security to main russian corps – and keep control of all the clients for the SORM needs – nonight – the stars – revolt- and this is your downfall.<br />
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Russia attacks Ukraine with cyber weapon, Snake

3/09/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Dozens of computer networks in Ukraine have been infected by an aggressive new cyber weapon called <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Snake" target="_blank">Snake</a>, according to expert analysis.<br />
 The cyber weapon has been increasingly used since the start of this year, even before protests that led to the overthrow of president Viktor Yanukovych, British-based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BAE Systems</a> said in a report published Friday.<br />
 The complex composition of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Snake" target="_blank">Snake</a> bears similarities with <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Stuxnet" target="_blank">Stuxnet</a>, the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares" target="_blank">malware</a> that disrupted Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010.<br />
Snake—also known as Ouroboros after the serpent in Greek mythology—gives remote attackers "full remote access to the compromised system", BAE said.<br />
Because it can stay inactive for a number of days, it is extremely hard to detect.
Although its origins are unclear, its developers appear to operate it in the same timezone as Moscow—GMT plus four hours—and some <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers" target="_blank">Russian</a> text is embedded into the code, BAE says.
BAE has identified 14 cases of Snake in Ukraine since the start of 2014, compared to eight cases in the whole of 2013. In all there have been 32 reported cases in <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Ukraine" target="_blank">Ukraine</a> since 2010, out of 56 worldwide.<br />
 Nigel Inkster, who until 2006 was the head of operations and intelligence at Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency, said Russia was most likely behind the cyber-attacks on Ukraine.<br />
"If you look at it in probabilistic terms... then the list of suspects boils down to one, he told the Financial Times.
"Until recently the Russians have kept a low profile, but there's no doubt in my mind that they can do the full scope of cyber attacks, from denial of service to the very, very sophisticated."</div>

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Personal info of 12 million KT customers Leaked

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Two men have been arrested in connection with the massive KT Corp. data breach that resulted in the theft of personal and financial information of some 12 million customers of the South Korean telecom giant.<br />
According to the <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/06/business/south-korea-telecoms-hackers" target="_blank">CNN</a>, one of the arrested men, a 29-year-old surnamed Kim, was a hacker who broke into the company's computer system with customized hacking software and extracted customer information such as names, resident registration numbers and bank account information.<br />
The initial breach apparently happened in February 2013, and he has been extracting the data ever since. He allegedly sold it to a 37-year-old man surnamed Park, a telemarketing business owner that used the information to credibly impersonate a KT Corp. employee in order to sell cell phones.<br />
Another man has been arrested but almost immediately released.<br />
Apparently, in the last year, they managed to earn themselves nearly $11 million through this scheme.<br />
KT is cooperating with the police as the investigation continues, and will be forced to set up a website its users can visit to check whether their information has been compromised, the Yonhap News Agency <a href="http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2014/03/07/17/0501000000AEN20140307000900320F.html" target="_blank">reported</a>.<br />
The South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning is warning potentially affected users to be on the lookout for phishing emails impersonating the company and taking advantage of the situation to make them share more personal details.
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Russian Defence Hacked, 500+MB Data Leaked

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Today Russian hacktivist <a href="https://twitter.com/Rucyborg" target="_blank">Rucyborg</a> has announced a big leak of files from Russian Defence Export ROSOBORONEXPORT (<a href="http://www.roe.ru/" target="_blank">http://www.roe.ru/</a>).<br />
The leak was announced just a short time ago from twitter and has been posted to <a href="https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/?p=17581" target="_blank">cyberguerrilla</a>. The leaked files are just the first part of a few to come from the Russian government.<br />
The attacks have been carried out due to the recent drama Putin is causing and the Russian hackers have stated they do not want any war all they want to do is expose Putin and his government for what they are.<br />
they have also stated that leaks from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi" target="_blank">Sukhoi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboronprom" target="_blank">Oboronprom</a>, <a href="http://eng.gazflot.ru/" target="_blank">Gazflot</a>, <a href="http://eng.gazflot.ru/" target="_blank">Rusal</a> and others.<br />
The leaked data has been uploaded to <a href="http://bayfiles.net/file/18nWT/NHiWky/rusarms.rar" target="_blank">bayfiles</a> as a 488MB rar file and a <a href="http://bayfiles.net/file/18nWT/NHiWky/rusarms.rar">preview</a> of the leaked documents has also been provided.<br />
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Today Russian hacktivist Rucyborg has announced a big leak of files from Russian Defence Export ROSOBORONEXPORT ( http://www.roe.ru/ )...

Bitcoin Bank Hacked, Theft of $6,20,000

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Flexcoin, famous for making <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Bitcoin" target="_blank">bitcoin</a> banking as easy as regular banking, is no more. The company shut its doors on Tuesday morning after hackers stole 896 bitcoins (nearly $620,000) from its vault on Sunday. And the most unsettling thing? That wasn't even the only bitcoin heist last weekend.<br />
To <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Flexcoin" target="_blank">Flexcoin's</a> credit, it wasn't completely cleaned out by hackers. Hackers did clean out Flexcoin's hot wallet, but an undisclosed number of bitcoins in cold storage were untouched. "Cold storage" simply means that the bitcoins were kept in computers <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage" target="_blank">not connected to the internet</a>, an extra level of security for which customers pay an extra 0.5 percent. Flexcoin will give those bitcoins back to customers. Those whose bitcoins were stolen are, well, they're shit out of luck because bitcoins aren't insured like good ol' greenbacks are in most banks.<br />
If this sounds like a familiar story, that's because it is. On Tuesday, another bitcoin firm called <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=499580" target="_blank">Polonix</a> also admitted that hackers broke in and stole 12.5 percent of its reserves, though it plans on replenishing the lost 'coin itself. And who could forget the infamous implosion of Mt.Gox, the Japan-based bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy last week and announced that $424 million worth of cryptocurrency was lost and gone forever. Those just a couple of the major heists and boondoggles on a growing list of heists and boondoggles.<br />
But what do you expect. The burgeoning bitcoin industry is famously unstable and <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerable</a>. Sure, it's an exciting idea for the sake of liberty and anarchy and whatever! It's just not the safest way to store your money right now, is all.</div>

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Cisco offers $300k for security solutions

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Cisco has launched a new competition and is calling on "visionaries, innovators, and implementers" to propose practical solutions for issues affecting security of the Internet of Things.<br />
"We’re connecting more of our world every day through smart, IP-enabled devices ranging from home appliances, healthcare devices, and industrial equipment. These new connected devices are offering new ways to share information and are changing the way we live," says Christopher Young, senior VP for the security group at <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cisco">Cisco</a>.<br />
"Yet, as our connected lives grow and become richer, the need for a new security model becomes even more critical. It requires that we work together as a community to find innovative solutions to make sure that the IoT securely fulfills its potential and preserves the convenience that it represents."<br />
Young announced the Challenge last week in his keynote address at the <a href="http://www.net-security.org/event/rsaconference2014" target="_blank">RSA Conference</a>, and has offered more details in a <a href="http://blogs.cisco.com/security/join-the-challenge-secure-the-internet-of-things/" target="_blank">blog post</a>. <br />
<a href="http://www.ninesights.com/community/cisco" target="_blank">The Internet of Things Security Grand Challenge</a> has a prize pot of $300,000 - a maximum of 6 winners will receive awards from $50,000 to $75,000. Also good to know that all participants will have an opportunity for additional collaboration with Cisco beyond the challenge.<br />
The proposals' feasibility, scalability, performance, and ease of use will be assessed by an evaluation panel consisting of five Cisco engineers and scientists, including Dave Evans, the company's Chief Futurist.<br />
The deadline for submissions is June 17, 2014, and the winners will announced and their solutions showcased at the Internet of Things World Forum this fall.
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