Hackers Leak Personal Data from Hundreds of German Politicians On Twitter

Germany has been hit with the biggest hack in its history. A group of unknown hackers has leaked highly-sensitive personal data from more than 100 German politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brandenburg's prime minister Dietmar Woidke, along with some German artists, journalist...

youtube-letoltes.eu XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-712546 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| youtube-letoltes.eu Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...

WSJ Webpage Defaced to Support PewDiePie

UPDATE A webpage owned by the Wall Street Journal was hacked on Monday, in an attempt to promote YouTube celebrity “PewDiePie.” The incident comes on the heels of a separate hack relating to the Swedish YouTuber, comedian and video game commentator, whose given name is Felix Kjellberg. Over the...

A week in security (December 10 – 16)

Last week on Labs, we took a look at some new Mac malware, a collection of various scraped data dumps, the protection of power grids, and how bad actors are using SMB vulnerabilities. Other cybersecurity news Millions affected by Facebook photo API bug: An issue granted third-party apps more acce...

Cross-Site Scripting in Online Media Asset Rendering

Failing to properly encode user input, online media asset rendering .youtube and .vimeo files is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. A valid backend user account or write access on the server system e.g. SFTP is needed in order to exploit this vulnerability...

Denial of Service in Online Media Asset Handling

Online Media Asset Handling .youtube and .vimeo files in the TYPO3 backend is vulnerable to denial of service. Putting large files with according file extensions results in high consumption of system resources. This can lead to exceeding limits of the current PHP process which results in a...

Someone hacked 50,000 printers to promote PewDiePie YouTube channel

By Waqas Nearly 50,000 printers across the globe were hacked by a hacker using the alias TheHackerGiraffe for the sake of promoting PewDiePie’s YouTube channel and encouraging users to subscribe to the channel. The hacker claims that the primary motive behind this hijacking spree is to spread...

Someone Hacked 50,000 Printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel

This may sound crazy, but it's true! The war for "most-subscribed Youtube channel" crown between T-Series and PewDiePie just took an interesting turn after a hacker yesterday hijacked more than 50,000 internet-connected printers worldwide to print out flyers asking everyone to subscribe to...

Why a Hacker Exploited Printers to Make PewDiePie Propaganda

An anonymous hacker has claimed credit for the prank, which is part of an ongoing YouTube subscriber feud...

WordPress 4.4.x < 4.4.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version number, the detected WordPress application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the wpplaylistshortcode function within the /wp-includes/media.php script due to a failure to validate input passed via...

WordPress 4.2.x < 4.2.13 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version number, the detected WordPress application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the wpplaylistshortcode function within the /wp-includes/media.php script due to a failure to validate input passed via...

WordPress 4.1.x < 4.1.16 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version number, the detected WordPress application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the wpplaylistshortcode function within the /wp-includes/media.php script due to a failure to validate input passed via...

WordPress 3.7.x < 3.7.19 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version number, the detected WordPress application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the wpplaylistshortcode function within the /wp-includes/media.php script due to a failure to validate input passed via...

PoC Attack Leverages Microsoft Office and YouTube to Deliver Malware

A stealthy malware delivery tactic has been uncovered in the way videos are embedded into Microsoft Word Documents, according to researchers. It allows JavaScript code-execution when a user clicks on a weaponized YouTube video thumbnail within a Word document – with no alert message displayed by...

Detecting Fake Videos

This story nicely illustrates the arms race between technologies to create fake videos and technologies to detect fake videos: These fakes, while convincing if you watch a few seconds on a phone screen, aren't perfect yet. They contain tells, like creepily ever-open eyes, from flaws in their...

To Curb Terrorist Propaganda Online, Look to YouTube. No, Really.

Opinion: Despite YouTube’s crackdown, extremist groups are still exploiting other Google platforms...

Google Will Charge Android Phone Makers to Use Its Apps In Europe

Would you prefer purchasing an Android device that doesn't have any apps or services from Google? No Google Maps, No Gmail, No YouTube! And NOT even the Google Play Store—from where you could have installed any Android apps you want Because if you live in Europe, from now on, you have to spend so...

Managing Thousands of users in Hundreds of branches with a few clicks

We live in a global business world. Almost on a daily basis, we see organizations expanding rapidly across geographies. While businesses in every industry can have international sites, some verticals like banking, finance, education, and retail are more apt to have corporate offices in multiple...

Avoid these Doctor Who Series 11 scams

The new season of Doctor Who has finally landed on television screens around the world, and we’ve started to see the first few signs of spam and other assorted nonsense lumbering online. A rash of YouTube accounts claiming to offer up the new series are making the rounds, all of which generally...

Fortnite gamers targeted by data theft malware

The new season of the incredibly popular video game Fortnite is upon us, and so too are the scams. It’s no surprise that con artists would jump on this bandwagon, eager to peddle their fakeouts. Only this time, scammers had something a little more dangerous in mind than your typical low-level...