2018-06-13 | BabaYaga WordPress malware, Web cache attack, and US Election security latest

Wednesday, June 13

TOP STORY

• BabaYaga WordPress malware: the malware that eats other malware - research by Defiant.

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Greetings from London, where we’re prepping for #h14420 live-hacking event this weekend. Expect send times to be a bit wonky this week. Have a great one!

HACKTIVITY

• burp does not validate the common name of the presented collaborator server certificate [9 upvotes] - $1,500 bounty for this report to PortSwigger by @morisson.

• Leak of Platform Authentication credentials via Repeater [6 upvotes] - $200 bounty for this report to PortSwigger by @junepo.

TWEET OF THE DAY

• So this is a fascinating story for us to ponder in IR triage and ops. Surgical professionals started a trend of wearing their first names and roles on their caps during surgery to cut down on role confusion and improve response time. It’s apparently grown globally. - @hacks4pancakes

OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING

• James Kettle’s web cache attack covered in Dark Reading (teaser for his Black Hat talk you probably won’t want to miss).

• Going to the World Cup? Leave your phone at home says US counterintelligence officials. Or pack a lot of tinfoil.

• US Election security latest. Good rundown from Politico.

• Dixons Carphone breach affecting millions of consumers reported. Interesting one to watch in the post-GDPR world.

• For the bounty hunters: new open source tool “bountytpl” markdown-file + JSON = report

• Wired reports on Crypto Sally and the ICO growth marketing machine
   

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It's sort of a design flaw in the way caching and websites work… It's not specific to any given technology or any given cache.

James Kettle on web cache exploit discovery

 

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