The company acknowledged the investigation after being contacted by Brian Krebs , confirming that it received a “ notification from a third party ” saying that info from cards used at GameStop.com were being offered for sale Attack.Databreach on the Dark Web . Krebs had been tipped off to the situation by financial industry sources , who said the compromise was likely active between mid-September 2016 and the first week of February 2017 . GameStop however didn ’ t confirm these data points . “ If Brian Krebs ’ report is correct , the GameStop breach Attack.Databreach has the potential to be a huge payday for hackers , ” said Vishal Gupta , CEO of Seclore , via email . “ Compromised credit-card numbers aren ’ t always easy to monetize , but in this case hackers were able to intercept Attack.Databreach CVV2 numbers…There is a reason companies aren ’ t allowed to store this CVV2 data in their own databases , so the fact that the hackers were able to intercept Attack.Databreach these security codes elevates the severity of the incident significantly ” . The timing could also be a key factor in the payoff for the crooks . “ If the reports about the Gamestop.com breach Attack.Databreach are right , then it shows how business-minded the bad guys can be . Hitting them during the Christmas season—when tons of distant relatives buying kids they hardly know gift cards for the one thing they know every kid wants—is pretty savvy timing , ” said Jonathan Sander , CTO , STEALTHbits Technologies . “ It also means these are purchases that many will barely recall making , and consumers were exercising the least caution they ever do as they rushed to get all their online shopping done ” . For now , details are skimpy as to what was stolen Attack.Databreach , when and how—no attack vector has yet been public . However , the company is large and hugely popular in the United States , with a global presence , so the potential for consumer exposure at scale , if the timeframe given is correct , could be significant . `` You can imagine a future where attacks such as this become so sophisticated and frequent that no one but the largest retailers can afford to defend against them , ” said John Gunn , CMO , VASCO Data Security . “ This would give the Amazons and Walmarts of the world a real competitive advantage in winning consumers ’ business . '' GameStop shoppers are advised to comb their purchase histories

The company acknowledged the investigation after being contacted by Brian Krebs , confirming that it received a “ notification from a third party ” saying that info from cards used at GameStop.com were being offered for sale Attack.Databreach on the Dark Web . Krebs had been tipped off to the situation by financial industry sources , who said the compromise was likely active between mid-September 2016 and the first week of February 2017 . GameStop however didn ’ t confirm these data points . “ If Brian Krebs ’ report is correct , the GameStop breach Attack.Databreach has the potential to be a huge payday for hackers , ” said Vishal Gupta , CEO of Seclore , via email . “ Compromised credit-card numbers aren ’ t always easy to monetize , but in this case hackers were able to intercept Attack.Databreach CVV2 numbers…There is a reason companies aren ’ t allowed to store this CVV2 data in their own databases , so the fact that the hackers were able to intercept Attack.Databreach these security codes elevates the severity of the incident significantly ” . The timing could also be a key factor in the payoff for the crooks . “ If the reports about the Gamestop.com breach Attack.Databreach are right , then it shows how business-minded the bad guys can be . Hitting them during the Christmas season—when tons of distant relatives buying kids they hardly know gift cards for the one thing they know every kid wants—is pretty savvy timing , ” said Jonathan Sander , CTO , STEALTHbits Technologies . “ It also means these are purchases that many will barely recall making , and consumers were exercising the least caution they ever do as they rushed to get all their online shopping done ” . For now , details are skimpy as to what was stolen Attack.Databreach , when and how—no attack vector has yet been public . However , the company is large and hugely popular in the United States , with a global presence , so the potential for consumer exposure at scale , if the timeframe given is correct , could be significant . `` You can imagine a future where attacks such as this become so sophisticated and frequent that no one but the largest retailers can afford to defend against them , ” said John Gunn , CMO , VASCO Data Security . “ This would give the Amazons and Walmarts of the world a real competitive advantage in winning consumers ’ business . '' GameStop shoppers are advised to comb their purchase histories

Positive Technologies has today confirmed it has detected Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability vulnerabilities in SAP Enterprise Portal Navigation , SAP NetWeaver Log Viewer and SAP Enterprise Portal Theme Editor , which are the components of the SAP NetWeaver platform . By exploiting these security flaws , attackers can intercept Attack.Databreach login credentials , register keystrokes , spoof data or perform other illegal activities that could potentially lead to a system compromise . Four Cross-Site Scripting ( XSS ) vulnerabilities were detected Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in the following SAP Enterprise Portal components : SAP Enterprise Portal Navigation ( CVSSv3 score 6.1 ) and SAP Enterprise Portal Theme Editor ( three flaws with CVSSv3 scores 5.4 , 6.1 , and 6.1 ) . Exploiting these vulnerabilities , an attacker could obtain access Attack.Databreach to a victim 's session tokens , login credentials or other sensitive information in the browser , perform arbitrary actions on the victim 's behalf , rewrite HTML page content and intercept Attack.Databreach keystrokes . The relevant remediation guidelines are described in SAP Security notes No . 2369469 , 2372183 , 2372204 , and 2377626 . Another vulnerability—Directory Traversal ( CVSSv3 score 5.9 ) —allows arbitrary file upload in SAP NetWeaver Log Viewer . Attackers can upload a malformed archive that contains files with special characters in their names . When the web application unpacks the archive , it resolves symbols `` . '' and `` / '' as a part of the correct file path , so attackers can exploit the Directory Traversal vulnerability and upload files to an arbitrary place on the server file system . The consequences of arbitrary file upload can include total compromise of a system , overload of a file system or database , expanding attacks to back-end systems and defacement . The impact of this vulnerability is high , as arbitrary code can be executed on the server . SAP Security note No . 2370876 describes the activities required to eliminate this flaw . Dmitry Gutsko , Head of the Business System Security Unit at Positive Technologies said : `` Large companies all over the world use SAP to manage financial flows , product lifecycle , relationships with vendors and clients , company resources , procurement , and other critical business processes . It is vital to protect the information stored in SAP systems as any breach Attack.Databreach of confidential information could have a devastating impact on the business . '' In order to identify vulnerabilities in SAP products , perform inventory checks on these systems , manage updates and analyze settings , configurations , and permissions , Positive Technologies ’ MaxPatrol vulnerability and compliance management solution has been certified by SAP for integration with SAP NetWeaver . In addition , Positive Technologies Application Firewall ( PT AF ) detects attacks , including those that leverage zero-day vulnerabilities , in SAP NetWeaver , SAP ICM , SAP Management Console , and SAP SOAP RFC using special security profiles . Positive Technologies Application Inspector also supports analysis of Java applications for the SAP NetWeaver Java platform .

Vanilla Forums open source software suffers Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability from vulnerabilities that could let an attacker gain access to user accounts , carry out web-cache poisoning attacks , and in some instances , execute arbitrary code . Popular open source forum software suffers Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability from vulnerabilities that could let an attacker gain access to user accounts , carry out web-cache poisoning attacks , and in some instances , execute arbitrary code . Legal Hackers ‘ Dawid Golunski found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the vulnerabilities , a host header injection and an unauthorized remote code execution vulnerability–in software which is developed by Vanilla Forums . Golunski reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the issues to Vanilla Forums in January and while a support team acknowledged his reports Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , he ’ s experienced five months of silence from the company since , something that prompted him to finally disclose Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the vulnerabilities Thursday via his ExploitBox.io service . The researcher confirmed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the vulnerabilities exist in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the most recent , stable version ( 2.3 ) of Vanilla Forums . He presumes Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability older versions of the forum software are also vulnerable Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . When reached Thursday , Lincoln Russell , a senior developer at Vanilla Forums stressed the vulnerabilities , which are in the middle of being fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , only affect Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the company ’ s free and open source product . Golunski says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the most concerning vulnerability , the RCE ( CVE-2016-10033 ) stems from a PHPMailer vulnerability he disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability last December . An attacker could remotely exploit Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the same vulnerability in Vanilla Forums by sending a web request in which a payload is passed within the HOST header . Until a fix is pushed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability Golunski is encouraging users to preset the sender ’ s support email address to a static value to prevent the dynamic creation of an email address , or the use of the HOST header , as a temporary mitigation . Golunski says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the second issue , the host header injection vulnerability ( CVE-2016-10073 ) also affects Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability version 2.3 of the software . The issue stems from the fact that the forum software uses user-supplied HTTP HOST header when sending emails from the host on which the forum was installed . That means an attacker could use HTTP HOST header to set the email domain to an arbitrary host . It would require user interaction but if exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , it ’ s possible the bug could help an attacker intercept Attack.Databreach a password reset hash and gain access Attack.Databreach to a victim ’ s account . An attacker would have send Attack.Phishing the victim an email tricking Attack.Phishing them into clicking through a password reset link , he says . “ The resulting email will have the sender ’ s address set to noreply @ attackers_server . The password reset link will also contain the attacker ’ s server which could allow the attacker to intercept the hash if the victim user clicked on the malicious link , ” Golunski wrote Thursday . It ’ s possible the vulnerability could also lead to web-cache poisoning if the HOST header is used to form links in web responses Golunski says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . According to Russell , when Vanilla Forums responded to Golunski in January it told him the issue would take some time to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability due to the “ complexity of unwinding the use of this server variable without breaking the myriad scenarios it can be used for in open source environments. ” Golunski hinted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability at the vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums back in December but didn ’ t name the software . When he disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the initial PHPMailer bug the researcher mentioned that he had developed an unauthenticated RCE exploit for “ a popular open-source application ( deployed on the Internet on more than a million servers ) as a PoC for real-world exploitation. ” Both the Vanilla Forums vulnerabilities and a similar RCE vulnerability in WordPress 4.6 Golunski disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability last week both relate to PHPMailer and PHP mail ( ) function injection . “ The exploits and techniques prove that these type of vulnerabilities could be exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by unauthenticated attackers via server headers such as HOST header that may be used internally by a vulnerable application to dynamically create a sender address , ” Golunski told Threatpost Thursday , “ This adds to the originally presented attack surface of contact forms that take user input including From/Sender address . ”

Researchers from the University of Negvu have developed a way in which hackers can extract Attack.Databreach data from a victim ’ s computer using the LED lights displayed on their router . They can do so using a malware named xLED , as reported by JPost . The Cyber Security Research Center at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negvu which is located in Israel have come up with a way to hack into a user ’ s computer and steal Attack.Databreach vital data in the form of LED lights that are displayed on a router . Essentially , the operation would require a specially crafted malware named xLED which will need to be installed on a router in order to hack a victim . That is , the router needs to have a security flaw so as to allow the hacker to install the malware in the first place . It can also be possible if a flawed firmware has been installed in the router , thus making it easier for the attacker to break through the device . Once the malware is installed , the data can be exfiltrated Attack.Databreach in the binary form represented by the blinking of lights . Hence , when the light is off , it will represent a zero while when it is on , it will represent a one . A video recording device can be used to capture the blinking pattern and utilized to steal Attack.Databreach vital information that is being transmitted through the router . The device can be anything from a recording drone to a CCTV camera . As long as the camera captures the blinking lights , the data being transmitted can be easily stolen Attack.Databreach . The researchers indicated that since the rate of exfiltration Attack.Databreach of data depends upon the number of LEDs being present on a router , it goes without saying that the more number of LEDs on a router , the more amount of data can be exfiltrated Attack.Databreach at any one time . Furthermore , the researchers tested various video-recording setups to see which is the most efficient and found out that the method involving Optical Sensors was the best . This is because it received data at a higher rate and was able to sample the LED lights more quickly than any other methods . Primarily , a data exfiltration Attack.Databreach rate of 1000 bit/sec per LED was achieved using Optical Sensors . Although the researchers indicated that the method is the most effective one to steal Attack.Databreach a large amount of data , they , however , stated that since the method involves installing malware on a router , a number of other techniques can be used to extract Attack.Databreach data anyway . This is because once the malware is already on the router , there are other ways in which attackers can directly intercept Attack.Databreach the data being transmitted without the need of any video recording devices .

The Russian antivirus maker says the leaked source code appears to be a high-quality product and the security firm is positive this will attract the attention of many cyber-criminals looking for a base to develop and deploy their own mobile malware . Android banking trojans are usually sold for thousands of dollars , or rented for similar high fees . The easily availability of this trojan might lead to a surge in banking trojans targeting Android devices , Dr.Web researchers warn . According to the company , the leaked source code has already been taken , tweaked and twisted into a new banking trojan named Android.BankBot , currently seen in live infections . The BankBot version detected in the wild appears to target only users of Russian banks . According to Dr.Web , the trojan will lie in hiding until the user opens mobile banking apps or social media apps . When this happens , the trojan shows Attack.Phishing fake login overlays , asking the user to reauthenticate or re-enter his payment card details , where appropriate . BankBot can phish Attack.Phishing for credentials using overlays for apps such as Facebook , Viber , Youtube , WhatsApp , Uber , Snapchat , WeChat , imo , Instagram , Twitter , and the Google Play Store . This data is collected Attack.Databreach and sent back to online servers , where the crook can access Attack.Databreach it via a neatly arranged backend . Once the BankBot author has access Attack.Databreach to user information , he can initiate banking transactions , or sell the user 's social media credentials online . When siphoning money out of a victim 's bank account , BankBot will also intercept Attack.Databreach and silently delete incoming SMS messages , meaning the bank 's transaction notification never reaches the user . Other BankBot features include the ability to send SMS messages and USSD requests , steal Attack.Databreach the user 's contacts list , track the user via GPS coordinates , and request additional permissions via popups for the latest Android OS versions , where the permissions system is more layered and interactive than in previous releases .

Android users were the target of new banking malware with screen locking capabilities , which was disguised as Attack.Phishing a weather forecast app on Google Play . Detected by ESET as Trojan.Android/Spy.Banker.HU , the malware was a trojanized version of the otherwise benign Attack.Phishing weather forecast application Good Weather . The malicious app managed to get around Google ’ s security mechanisms and appeared in the store on February 4th , only to be reported by ESET two days later and consequently pulled from the store . During its short lifetime , the app found its way to devices of up to 5000 users . Besides the weather forecast functionalities it adopted from the original legitimate application , the trojan is able to lock and unlock infected devices remotely and intercept Attack.Databreach text messages . Apart from doing so , the trojan targeted the users of 22 Turkish mobile banking apps , whose credentials were harvested Attack.Databreach using phony login forms . The infected device then displays Attack.Phishing a fake system screen requesting device administrator rights on behalf of fictitious “ System update ” . By enabling these rights , the victim allows the malware to Change the screen-unlock password and Lock the screen . Users who are not alarmed at this point might be pleased with the new weather widget they can add to their home screens . However , in the background , the malware is getting to work sharing device information with its C & C server . Depending on the command it gets in return , it can intercept Attack.Databreach received text messages and send them to the server , remotely lock and unlock the device by setting a lock screen password of the attackers ’ choice , and harvest Attack.Databreach banking credentials . The trojan displays Attack.Phishing a fake login screen once the user runs one of the targeted banking apps and sends entered data to the attacker . Thanks to the permission to intercept Attack.Databreach the victims ’ text messages , the malware is also able to bypass SMS-based two-factor authentication . As for the device locking , we suspect this function enters the picture when cashing out the compromised bank account , to keep the fraudulent activity hidden from the user . Once locked out , all victims can do is wait until the malware receives a command to unlock the device . If you ’ ve recently installed a weather app from the Play Store , you might want to check if you haven ’ t been one of the victims of this banking trojan . In case you think you might have downloaded an app named Good Weather , check for its icon under your apps . After running anything you ’ ve installed on your mobile device , keep paying attention to what permissions and rights it requests . An app that won ’ t run without advanced permissions that aren ’ t connected to its intended function might be an app you don ’ t want installed on your phone .

Android users were the target of new banking malware with screen locking capabilities , which was disguised as Attack.Phishing a weather forecast app on Google Play . Detected by ESET as Trojan.Android/Spy.Banker.HU , the malware was a trojanized version of the otherwise benign Attack.Phishing weather forecast application Good Weather . The malicious app managed to get around Google ’ s security mechanisms and appeared in the store on February 4th , only to be reported by ESET two days later and consequently pulled from the store . During its short lifetime , the app found its way to devices of up to 5000 users . Besides the weather forecast functionalities it adopted from the original legitimate application , the trojan is able to lock and unlock infected devices remotely and intercept Attack.Databreach text messages . Apart from doing so , the trojan targeted the users of 22 Turkish mobile banking apps , whose credentials were harvested Attack.Databreach using phony login forms . The infected device then displays Attack.Phishing a fake system screen requesting device administrator rights on behalf of fictitious “ System update ” . By enabling these rights , the victim allows the malware to Change the screen-unlock password and Lock the screen . Users who are not alarmed at this point might be pleased with the new weather widget they can add to their home screens . However , in the background , the malware is getting to work sharing device information with its C & C server . Depending on the command it gets in return , it can intercept Attack.Databreach received text messages and send them to the server , remotely lock and unlock the device by setting a lock screen password of the attackers ’ choice , and harvest Attack.Databreach banking credentials . The trojan displays Attack.Phishing a fake login screen once the user runs one of the targeted banking apps and sends entered data to the attacker . Thanks to the permission to intercept Attack.Databreach the victims ’ text messages , the malware is also able to bypass SMS-based two-factor authentication . As for the device locking , we suspect this function enters the picture when cashing out the compromised bank account , to keep the fraudulent activity hidden from the user . Once locked out , all victims can do is wait until the malware receives a command to unlock the device . If you ’ ve recently installed a weather app from the Play Store , you might want to check if you haven ’ t been one of the victims of this banking trojan . In case you think you might have downloaded an app named Good Weather , check for its icon under your apps . After running anything you ’ ve installed on your mobile device , keep paying attention to what permissions and rights it requests . An app that won ’ t run without advanced permissions that aren ’ t connected to its intended function might be an app you don ’ t want installed on your phone .