2017-06-27 | Patch or Petya, Psaux AMA, and How not to encrypt a file

Tuesday, June 27

TOP STORY

• More ransomware. Petrwrap, strain of Petya. Possible links to WannaCry (the criminal group even maintained a twitter account). New Petya uses the NSA Eternalblue exploit. Patch, patch, patch, patch. Or your grocery stores will look like this.

HACKTIVITY

• Stored XSS in *.myshopify.com [7 upvotes] - $500 bounty for this report to Shopify by @jamesclyde. The researcher reported an issue where any html typed in a input field in the Theme Editor would be instantiated in the document's DOM.

You can see all the latest and greatest disclosures and bounties on www.hackerone.com/hacktivity

TWEET OF THE DAY

• I hope everyone kept a good stockpile of “I told you so” coupons from last time… - @thegrugq

OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING

• Psaux ama on BBF

• We’ve got your #hackerpoweredfacts right here.

• Petya - taking ransomware to the low level (slides)

• How Not to Encrypt a File 

• NIST bill got some folks in a tizzy (read more in Politico)

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Robert Parks

 

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