N26

There is a really good talk about some vulnerabilities found in the N26 banking app presented at the CCC congress this year. <amp-iframe width=“1024” height=“360” sandbox=“allow-scripts allow-popups” layout=“responsive” frameborder=“0"src=“https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7969-shut_up_and_take_my_money/oembed" allowfullscreen> The talk is worth a watch but it does highlight some key points No Certificate Pinning was being used that made it easy for the research to MITM the app that’s not to say Cert Pinning fixes all issues but doing it makes things a lot harder for attackers. Continue reading

Kaspersky

Ouch - Kaspersky have been enabling MITM attacks on their customer base. The Register citig a Chrome bug report explains how you can use this to trick consumers in thinking a site is valid/safe when it is not. This underlines the ease of MITM SSL/TLS - see my previous article for all the different ways this can be done!

Man in the middle is easier than you think

I’m often heard saying it’s quite easy to MITM HTTPS (also called SSL/TLS) and decided that maybe I should list all the methods I know of (there are quite a few). The attacker has many options to try and get in the middle between the user and web server/API Pure Technical Approaches Zero Day Vulnerabilities in browsers TLS/SSL Breaks Incorrectly Issued Trusted Certificate Aquire vendor issued ’trusted’ certificate Social Engineering Approaches Convince user to install MITM certificate Convince user to install software Malicious Browser Extensions Conclusion Pure Technical Approaches The pure technical approaches rely on attacks that don’t require users to make any mistakes and anyone can be vulnerable. Continue reading

mitm key

To continue my MITM attacks theme - someone has just release a nice USB key that ransacks your PC - Ars Technica has a good write up. This kind of thing is very dangerous as it’s really easy to get people to put USB keys into computers! I’m currently writing a longer article on the (many) ways to MITM TLS to help explain how easy it is!