![]() ![]() So far no one has disclosed how long the exploit code was in use or how many Hotmail accounts might have been compromised. But the email never gets to my account, not even in Junk. I watched one of those videos, which appeared to show a Hotmail account being compromised in real time. Your password has been reset and a new one has been mailed to you. Numerous youtube videos have come up to demonstrate the proof of concept. All the attacked had to do was to select the “I forgot my Password” and select “Email me a reset link” and start the Tamper Data in firefox and modify the outgoing data. ![]() It involves using a Firefox addon called Tamper Data which allows the the user to intercept the outgoing HTTP request from the browser in real time and modify the data. Method one: Use the Scan to Email Wizard (Windows) software, which is installed in the HP program group for the printer as part of the full printer software installation Method two: Use the HP Embedded Web Server (EWS) to set up the Scan to Email feature Note: Method two can be used for all supported operating systems, including macOS. Step 3: Click the name to expand the set of credentials and click Remove. Step 2: Navigate to User Accounts -> Credential Manager -> Manage your credentials, and locate the set of credentials that has Outlook in the name. The exploit in itself was a very simple one. Step 1: Make sure that you have exited Outlook, and run Control Panel. While many other lost their Facebook and twitter accounts.Īccording to that report, the primary attack vector used a Firefox add-on called Tamper Data: Many users who linked their email account to financial services like Paypal and Liberty Reserve were targeted and the money looted away. The exploit eventually spread like wild fire across the hacking community. All hell broke loose when a member from a very popular hacking forum offered his service that he can hacked “any” email accounts within a minute. Apparently the exploit got leaked to the dark-web hacking forums. The exploit was first discovered by a Hacker from Saudi Arabia who is a member of the popular security forum. ![]() The more detailed timeline puts the Vendor Fix/Patch date one day later:ĭuring at least part of that two-week gap, the vulnerability was widely exploited, one source says.Ī report at notes that in the two weeks between the discovery of the vulnerability and the deployment of a server-side fix, the exploit escaped into the wild: The bulletin says Microsoft fixed the vulnerability on April 20, 2012. An attacker can decode CAPTCHA & send automated values over the MSN Hotmail module. Successful exploitation results in unauthorized MSN or Hotmail account access. A remote attacker can, for example bypass the token protection with values “+++)-“. The token protection only checks if a value is empty then blocks or closes the web session. Remote attackers can bypass the password recovery service to setup a new password and bypass in place protections (token based). The vulnerability allows an attacker to reset the Hotmail/MSN password with attacker chosen values. The bulletin rated the severity as “Critical,” based on this description:Ī critical vulnerability was found in the password reset functionality of Microsoft’s official MSN Hotmail service. ![]()
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