Forum Software vBulletin Close After Hacking Vulnerability

The makers of the popular forum software vBulletin released a security update for a vulnerability in the software and reset the passwords of almost 345 000 users forum yesterday after an attacker managed to hack the vBulletin.com website.

According to the developers has a "sophisticated attack" occurred on the network. In addition, the attacker may have access to customer IDs and received encrypted passwords. As a precaution, it is now decided by all users on the official support forum of vBulletin to reset the passwords. According to the company's statistics, the forum has nearly 345 000 users.

Further details of the attack are not shared. Ten minutes after the news about the attack and password reset vBulletin installed a new communication line, this time on a vulnerability in the software. The Communication put the developers that they have been notified of a vulnerability in vBulletin 5 Connect 5:14 version to 5.1.9 and therefore a security update has been rolled out. Administrators are advised to install the update. Whether the update fixes the leak which has attacked the vBulletin forum software developer does not know.

f0xy Malware: "Malware Hides By Using Microsoft BITS Download Service"

Researchers have discovered a malware specimen that Microsoft's own download service used to hide.The malware by security firm Websense 'f0xy' and is among other because of the use of the Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service ( BITS ).

This service uses available bandwidth for downloading files. Many Windows services use this service, including Windows Update and Windows Defender. According to researchers used f0xy download service to avoid being noticed. Virus scanners would beat slower alarm when network requests BITS see coming than an unknown .exe file would be the case. The malware itself is developed to mine infected computers to digital currency.

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