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Sunday, March 1, 2020

Προγράμματα Πρόληψης και Καθαρισμού Ιών που θα Πρέπει να Έχετε στο PC, Νέο New!

Προγράμματα Πρόληψης και Καθαρισμού Ιών που θα Πρέπει να Έχετε στο PC, τι χρησιμοποιώ εγώ, what programs i use to secure my pc: 1 Common Sense!!!



Extensions for my browser i use Opera:
First you need to install : Install Chrome Extensions
Install Chrome Extensions allows you to install extensions from Google Chrome Web Store
in your Opera browser.


Malwarebytes Browser Guard
crushes unwanted and unsafe content, giving you a safer and faster browsing, Not only that, it is the world’s first browser extension that can identify and stop tech support scams. We take on the bad guys so you don’t have to.

VT4Browsers, VirusTotal Browser Extension
Imagine you log into your Gmail account and find a suspicious email from your bank. The email informs you about an unauthorized access to your account and asks you to follow a link and provide your credentials to view the account access log. Wouldn't it be great if you could simply right-click on the link and check it against VirusTotal in order to understand whether it is legit or report a phishing site? Wouldn't it be great if you could do this just with that right-click, without having to navigate to VirusTotal and refer to the URL tab? This is what VirusTotal's browser extensions allow you to do.


Emsisoft Browser Security
Blocks dangerous websites that distribute malware and prevents phishing attacks.
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For my win10
Malwarebytes Premium
Malwarebytes Premium is Malwarebytes’ strongest protection ever. It fights threats that antivirus software isn’t advanced enough to stop. All threats are removed including worms, rogues, dialers, trojans, rootkits, spyware, exploits, bots, and other malware. Work, play, and socialize online freely with no worry.



For my android

Malwarebytes for Android


The folks you trust to safeguard your computer now offer powerful protection you can put in your pocket. Malwarebytes for Android automatically detects and removes dangerous threats like malware and ransomware so you don't have to worry about your most-used device being compromised. Aggressive detection of adware and potentially unwanted programs keeps your Android phone or tablet running smooth. A privacy audit tells you which apps are monitoring your every move. All that protection in a lean package.

The NCSC's weekly threat report is drawn from recent open source reporting.




Council confirms ransomware attack


Earlier this week Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council confirmed its IT servers had been affected by a ransomware attack.

The NCSC has been providing support to the council in the wake of this incident and is advising on how to minimise the risk of such an attack occurring in future.

We’ve recently updated our guidance, Mitigating malware and ransomware attacks, which outlines how organisations can defend their systems. We’d encourage all organisations to read this advice and as an immediate step, ensure offline back-ups of servers are in place.

Further guidance on how to effectively detect, respond to and resolve cyber incidents is also available here on the NCSC website.


Rise in the number of Office 365 phishing scams


Cyber security researchers have uncovered an increase in the number of low-quality phishing scams that aim to trick users into revealing their credentials.

According to a new report from Cofense, there has been a surge in scam attempts using illegitimate and badly created Office 365 credentials update forms.

Potential victims receive an email claiming to be from their organisation’s IT team that tells them their account will expire unless they click the link and update their details.

Cofense note that the criminals behind the scam went to great lengths to appear legitimate. The phishing email originates from a compromised company email account, which allows the scam to bypass basic email security checks.

However, the forms that potential victims are directed to are often littered with grammatical and spelling mistakes.

Phishers use a wide variety of techniques to try and scam users into revealing sensitive data about themselves or the businesses they work for. The NCSC has published guidance on how the public and organisations can defend themselves against such attacks.

The NCSC has also published advice on securely configuring Office 365 to protect against the rise in credential stealing attacks.

I've received a suspicious email The National Cyber Security Centre




If you haven't clicked any links in the email, that's good. Until you're certain that the sender is genuine, you should not follow any links, or reply.

The next thing to do is try and identify whether the email is a scam, or genuine.

Here's some tips on spotting phishing emails
Many phishing emails have poor grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Is the design and overall quality what would you'd expect from the organisation the email is supposed to come from?
Is it addressed to you by name, or does it refer to 'valued customer', or 'friend', or 'colleague'? This can be a sign that the sender does not actually know you, and that it is part of a phishing scam.
Does the email contain a veiled threat that asks you to act urgently? Be suspicious of words like 'send these details within 24 hours' or 'you have been a victim of crime, click here immediately'.
Look at the sender's name. Does it sound legitimate, or is it trying to mimic someone you know?
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. It's most unlikely that someone will want to give you money, or give you access to a secret part of the Internet.
Your bank, or any other official source, should never ask you to supply personal information from an email.

Try to check any claims made in the email through some other channel. For example, by calling your bank to see if they actually sent you an email or doing a quick Google search on some of the wording used in the email.


Followed the advice?


The above advice will go a long way to helping you secure yourself online but if you do spot a suspicious email, flag it as Spam/Junk or Suspicious in your email inbox. This will take it out of your inbox, and also tell your email provider you've identified it as potentially unsafe. You can report suspicious emails, phone calls or SMS messages to Action Fraud.

For further information on how to keep yourself secure online, check out our top tips.

10 Yr-Old Facebook Account Take Over Vulnerability Let Hackers Hijack Any One’s Facebook Account – Researcher Rewarded $55,000


By Balaji N - March 1, 2020 0



Exclusive!! Security researcher discovered a critical account takeover Vulnerability in Facebook OAuth Framework let hackers hijack anyone’s Facebook account among billion of Facebook users.

The vulnerability resides in the“Login with Facebook”feature that uses the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Protocol to exchange the tokens between facebook.com and third-party websites.

OAuth 2.0 is the industry-standard protocol for authorization. OAuth 2.0 supersedes the work done on the original OAuth protocol created in 2006.

By taking advantage of the vulnerability, remote attackers can set up a malicious website to hijack the OAuth flow, and steal the access tokens that help attackers to gain complete access to the target Facebook users’ accounts.

Amol Baikar, An Indian security researcher who reported this vulnerability on December 16, 2019 and fixed this vulnerability within a week, also Facebook confirmed this vulnerability with the Bug Bounty reward of $55,000 which is the highest bounty for a client-side account take over vulnerability.



Amol Baikar@AmolBaikar



Facebook OAuth Vulnerability.
$55,000 Bounty Awarded by Facebook.

Writeup:https://www.amolbaikar.com/facebook-oauth-framework-vulnerability/ …#Facebook #Security #BugBounty
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Once the Facebook account will be compromised, the attacker can send a message, publish anything in feed, alter the account details, delete post and more on behalf of the victim.

This critical Facebook Vulnerability could allow to takeover accounts including Facebook, Instagram, Oculus and more Facebook services. at the same time attack can gain access to all third-party websites such as Netflix, Tinder, Spotify. (where Facebook login is implemented), Amol Baikar told Cyber Security News.
Facebook Account Takeover Vulnerability

The Researcher addressed two imported points that mainly responsible for this vulnerability.
Missing the “X-Frame-Options”header. (completely framable flow)
Additionally “window.parent” which itself saves the user interaction to zero. Wasn’t needed to bother with window.open or any button onClick event.

Also, Amol found that cross-domain communication has been exposed and access_token could leak to any origin without victim knowledge which leads to a potential compromises user account.var app_id = '124024574287414', app_domain = 'www.instagram.com'; var exploit_url = 'https://www.facebook.com/connect/ping?client_id=' + app_id + '&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2Fr%2F7SWBAvHenEn.js%3Fversion%3D44%23origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252F' + app_domain; var i = document.createElement('iframe'); i.setAttribute('id', 'i'); i.setAttribute('style', 'display:none;'); i.setAttribute('src', exploit_url); document.body.appendChild(i); window.addEventListener('OAuth', function(FB) { alert(FB.data.name); }, !1);


Due to the leakage of 1st party graphql tokens that allows querying a mutation call, an attacker can add the new phone number for account recovery and bypassing the permission checks.

It allows attackers to gain full read/write privileges such as messages, photos, videos even if privacy control is set to the “only me”.

Cyber Security News learned some important points to be noted in this vulnerability.


1.All Facebook apps and third-party apps access token could be a leak at the same time. (within Seconds).

2.Leakage of the first party token has full read/write/update/delete permission for the Facebook account. (the attacker can fo anything with Facebook accounts, including adding, phone email which can use later for forgot password) (also tokens can query to read each and each private msgs, photos, videos even if they are set to “only me” privacy control)”.

3. Due to an incorrect post message configuration, someone visiting an attacker-controlled website could have had their first party access tokens stolen for vulnerable apps using Facebook’s Oauth flow.

4.First party tokens are non-expirable. (never expires).

5.First party token remains valid even user changes there Facebook Account password. Attacker still have control over the users account.They can harvest the data even user changes his password.


Facebook users suggested changing their Facebook password and make sure to logout from all the devices for one time, safety purpose. because this bug was live for 10 years, such long term that doesn’t give guarantee bug is exploited or not.

Saturday, February 29, 2020

A group of hackers is using the remote desktop ActiveX control in Word documents

By Ionut Ilascu February 28, 2020 02:12 PM 0






A group of hackers is using the remote desktop ActiveX control in Word documents to automatically execute on Windows 10 a malware downloader called Ostap that was seen recently adopted by TrickBot for delivery.

Security researchers have found dozens of files that delivered the first malware payload, indicating a larger campaign.
Starts with phishing

Ostap, extensively analyzed by Bromium researchers, is delivered via a Word document laced with malicious macro code and including an image that allegedly showed encrypted content. This is the ruse to trick victims into enabling macros in the document.

The threat actor delivered the malicious documents via phishing emails disguised as notifications of a missing payment. In the attachment is the fake invoice referred to in the message.



Security researchers at Morphisec analyzed the poisoned docs and noticed that there was an ActiveX control hidden below the embedded image.

A closer look revealed that the threat actor used the MsRdpClient10NotSafeForScripting class, which is used for remote control. Windows 10 is the minimum supported client and Windows Server 2016 is the minimum supported server.

ActiveX controls can be added to text or drawing layers in Word documents to make them interactive.
Clever delivery and execution

In a report today, Michael Gorelik of Morphisec writes that the JavaScript code for Ostap downloader is present in the document in font that has the same color as the background, making it invisible to the human eye.



Another interesting finding is that the attackers did not populate the "server" field in the MsRdpClient10NotSafeForScripting class, needed to establish a connection with a remote desktop server.



This was not a lapse from the attackers as the error that occurs helps execute their malicious code at a later time, thus evading detection.

When inspecting the macro, the researchers found that the "_OnDisconnected" function acts as a trigger but only after an error is returned for failing to connect to a non-existent server.


"The OSTAP will not execute unless the error number matches exactly to "disconnectReasonDNSLookupFailed" (260); the OSTAP wscript command is concatenated with a combination of characters that are dependent on the error number calculation." - Michael Gorelik, Morphisec

The backdoor is then executed immediately after taking the form of a .BAT file and the document form is closed.

Gorelik told BleepingComputer that this actor is not the only one relying on ActiveX control to execute malware. Other actors seen in January used the OnConnecting method that is easier to detect.

By contrast, the OnDiconnected method needs a specific return value and there is also a delay while the DNS lookup completes. This works to the attacker's advantage because scanners may miss the malicious activity and mark the file as benign.

[Update 02/28/2020, 16:01 EST]: Article updated to reflect a correction from Morphisec about misidentifying Ostap downloader with Griffon backdoor that is typically used by FIN7 threat actor.