Monday, May 15
Welcome to CyberAttack Monday (may the rest of your week be better than today)!
TOP STORY
Holy ransomware batman: WannaCry targets span the globe: NHS hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack and an accidental hero but new variants detected. This is a plot that reads like a bad cyber spy novel. Good news though, Microsoft has guidance for the WannayCrypt attacks (update your ish). And don’t say we didn’t warn you this could happen.
HACKTIVITY
Arbitrary Local-File Read from Admin - Restore From Backup due to Symlinks [29 upvotes] - $512 bounty for this report to Discourse by @Ziot. Manually modifying the tar archive and adding a symlink, you are able to read any arbitrary file that the user has permission to.
[IDOR][translate.twitter.com] Opportunity to change any comment at the forum [27 upvotes] - $1,120 bounty for this report to Twitter by @kedrisch. Reported, fixed, and bountied 6 months ago but publicly disclosed over the weekend (playbook for other co’s looking to leverage benefit of public disclosure - statutory period of 6-months? Just a thought).
You can see all the latest and greatest disclosures and bounties on www.hackerone.com/hacktivity.
TWEET OF THE DAY
Photos of WCry-infected computers at the Russian Interior Ministry are revealing some interesting folders in screenshots. - @kevinrothrock
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
Reversing the ransomware: Matt Suiche’s technical writeup on Medium.
That’s a lot of work for $54K, plus BTC tumbler troubles? It pays to be a whitehat.
The tech giants have huge resources, but bounty hunters are better placed to discover many security flaws.
Law firm purchases cyber insurance. Becomes victim to ransomware. Sues cyber insurance provider for 3-months of lost business.
United Airlines cockpit codes exposed.
Perry Metzger has some great advice for your friends that don’t know much about computers.
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