Researchers at Resecurity noticed threat actors leveraging Open Redirect Vulnerabilities which is popular in online services and apps to evade spam filters to deliver phishing content. Trusted service domains like Snapchat and other online services make special URLs that lead to malicious resources with phishing kits. The kit identified is named ‘LogoKit’ that was earlier […]
So far, the ongoing phishing attack has utilized more than 350 unique domains to target Microsoft Office 365 users. Microsoft has warned about a new widespread phishing campaign in which scammers are abusing open redirect links to divert users to malicious websites and steal MS Office 365 credentials. In a detailed report, the IT security researchers […]
Microsoft is warning of a widespread credential phishing campaign that leverages open redirector links in email communications as a vector to trick users into visiting malicious websites while effectively bypassing security software. “Attackers combine these links with social engineering baits that impersonate well-known productivity tools and services to lure users into clicking,” Microsoft 365 Defender […]
Unvalidated redirects and forwards are possible when a web application accepts untrusted input that could cause the web application to redirect the request to a URL contained within untrusted input. By modifying untrusted URL input to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishing scam and steal user credentials.Because the server name in […]
Open redirection or URL redirection vulnerabilities occur when a web application takes user-controllable input and uses it to perform a redirection, directing the user’s browser to visit a different URL than the one requested (the original domain). These security vulnerabilities regularly are of much less interest to an attacker than cross-site scripting, which can be […]
Every website that uses jQuery Mobile, and has any open redirect anywhere is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery Foundation’s jQuery Mobile project is an HTML5-based framework that allows users to design a single responsive web site or application that will work on all popular mobile devices and desktop systems. According to the foundation, […]