Malicious 'Blur' Photo App Campaign Discovered on Google Play

A new campaign of malicious photo apps on Google Play floods Android devices with random ads instead of functioning as advertised. They also elude detection by making its icon disappear from the device home screen soon after it’s downloaded. Researchers at the White Ops Satori Threat Intelligence...

ads-space.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1235987

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

Google Bans Stalkerware Ads – With a Loophole

Google will soon prohibit ads on its platform that promote stalkerware products and services – but the tech giant’s ban comes with a catch that some security experts worry will render it ineffective. Starting August 2020, Google’s ads policy will be updated to ban advertisements for stalkerware,...

Pig in a poke: smartphone adware

Our support team continues to receive more and more requests from users complaining about intrusive ads on their smartphones from unknown sources. In some cases, the solution is quite simple. In others, the task is far harder: the adware plants itself in the system partition, and trying to get ri...

Urban Dictionary: DOM XSS through ads

Multiple ads hosted on www.urbandictionary.com make the www.urbandictionary.com origin vulnerable to DOM XSS. Attached is an image of alertdocument.domain executing. The injection works in Firefox and Chrome. Visiting the following URL will probably cause an alert box displaying the document.doma...

UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

The United Kingdom's anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say...

Now Chrome Can Block Ads That Leach Power From Your CPU

Google developers have built a feature to help you avoid abusive ads. Here’s how to turn it on...

July 2014 cumulative update for Windows Store in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2

July 2014 cumulative update for Windows Store in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 Introduction This update makes improvements to Windows Store in Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2. Improvements This update contains the following improvements: Apps that you have installe...

Dozens of Android Apps for Kids on Google Play Store Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

More than 50 Android apps on the Google Play Store—most of which were designed for kids and had racked up almost 1 million downloads between them—have been caught using a new trick to secretly click on ads without the knowledge of smartphone users. Dubbed "Tekya ," the malware in the apps imitate...

Advanced Ads < 1.17.4 - Authenticated Reflected XSS via Admin Dashboard

The Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense WordPress plugin was affected by an Authenticated Reflected XSS via Admin Dashboard security vulnerability...

WordPress Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin <= 1.17.3 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Sucuri in WordPress Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin versions = 1.17.3. Solution Update the WordPress Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin to the latest available version at least 1.17.4...

PT-2020-9383 · Brother · Dcp-1610We Firmware +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Brother printers such as the HL-L8360CDW version 1.20 ads-2400n firmware ads-2800w firmware ads-3000n firmware ads-3600w firmware dcp-1610w firmware dcp-1610we firmware dcp-1610wr firmware dcp-1610wvb firmware Description: The issue involves...

Johnson Controls Metasys

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Johnson Controls Equipment: Metasys Vulnerability: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can allow a...

CVE-2019-17228

includes/options.php in the motors-car-dealership-classified-listings aka Motors - Car Dealer & Classified Ads plugin through 1.4.0 for WordPress allows unauthenticated options changes...

Cross site scripting

includes/options.php in the motors-car-dealership-classified-listings aka Motors - Car Dealer & Classified Ads plugin through 1.4.0 for WordPress has multiple stored XSS issues...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The company categorizes disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The company categorizes disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps for Obnoxious Ads

Google has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for serving up obnoxious, invasive ads that aren’t easily “x’d” out of. The internet giant said the enforcement action was a strike against mobile ad fraud. Google said Thursday that the apps violated its disruptive ads policy – and a...

CVE-2019-16871

Beckhoff Embedded Windows PLCs through 3.1.4024.0, and Beckhoff Twincat on Windows Engineering stations, allow an attacker to achieve Remote Code Execution as SYSTEM via the Beckhoff ADS protocol...

Remote code execution

Beckhoff Embedded Windows PLCs through 3.1.4024.0, and Beckhoff Twincat on Windows Engineering stations, allow an attacker to achieve Remote Code Execution as SYSTEM via the Beckhoff ADS protocol...