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Joker Spyware Found in 24 Google Play Apps
A new spyware has been making the rounds in Android apps on Google Play, infecting victims post-download to steal their SMS messages, contact lists and device information. In addition to stealing victims’ information, the malware also stealthily signs them up for premium service subscriptions tha...
Malicious App on Google Play Tallies 100 Million Downloads
Call it the case of a good app gone bad! For some time, a handy PDF creator and optical character recognition OCR app available via Google Play offered users utility and convenience. The app, downloaded more than 100 million times, is called CamScanner and allows Android phone owners to snap a...
Google Launches Open-Source Browser Extension for Ad Transparency
Google is launching an experimental, open-source browser extension aimed at increasing transparency around online advertising by displaying information about the ads that are shown to users. The browser extension is an integral part of a new Google initiative announced Thursday to develop a set o...
CVE-2019-7594
Metasys® ADS/ADX servers and NAE/NIE/NCE engines prior to 9.0 make use of a hardcoded RC2 key for certain encryption operations involving the Site Management Portal SMP...
CVE-2019-7594
Metasys ADS/ADX servers and NAE/NIE/NCE engines before version 9.0 use a hardcoded RC2 key for Site Management Portal (SMP) encryption. This flaw can allow an attacker with access to the key to decrypt captured network traffic between the Metasys components and the SMP client. Affected products a...
CVE-2019-7593
Metasys ADS/ADX servers and NAE/NIE/NCE engines prior to version 9.0 use a shared RSA key pair for certain Site Management Portal (SMP) encryption, allowing an attacker with access to the key to decrypt captured traffic between the Metasys components and the SMP client. CVE-2019-7593 is authentic...
Malvertising Campaigns Skirt Ad Blockers, Serve Up Mac Malware
Two fresh malvertising campaigns are making the scene that are abusing the convoluted underpinnings of the internet economy to find malware victims. One is a large-scale exploit kit EK campaign designed to circumvent traditional safeguards, such as ad blockers, and the other uses web redirects to...
WordPress Plugin Flaws Exploited in Ongoing Malvertising Campaign
A widespread and ongoing malicious advertising campaign is exploiting several recently-disclosed WordPress plugin vulnerabilities to redirect website visitors to booby-trapped landing pages. Researchers at Wordfence said that they recently discovered bad actors injecting code into websites with t...
Massive Malvertising Campaign Reaches 100M Ads, Manipulates Supply Chain
A Hong Kong-based advertiser has mounted a snowballing campaign, compromising more than 100 million ads to date by forming relationships with legitimate ad platforms to gain access to premium audiences. From there, it often pushes malware onto victim machines. The malvertiser, operating under the...
Ads For WP <= 1.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CSRF allowing attacker to disconnect the linked Google Analytics from the plugin's settings...
WordPress WPAds 1.0 Open Redirection
Exploit Title : WordPress WPAds Plugins 1.0 Open Redirection Author Discovered By : KingSkrupellos Team : Cyberizm Digital Security Army Date : 29/05/2019 Vendor Homepage : montages.no Information Link : montages.no/martin/ thesandbox.wordpress.com/wpads/ WordPress Affected Version : N/A Plugin...
Ukrainian Charged With Launching 100 Million Malicious Ads
A Ukrainian national has been extradited to the U.S. for allegedly operating a five-year-long malvertising scheme – reaching victims with more than 100 million malicious ads worldwide. Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov, 31, appeared in Newark, N.J. federal court on Friday after being extradited to the U.S...
GoDaddy Takes Down 15,000 Spammy 'Snake Oil' Subdomains
You know those ads hawking bogus brain pills? Security researchers just helped take out a bunch of the spammers behind them...
CVE-2019-11511
Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus before build 5708 has XSS via the mobile app API...
Adware-Ridden Apps in Google Play Infect 30 Million Android Users
More than 50 malicious apps have been discovered on the Google Play app marketplace, peddling adware to millions of Android victims. The 50 adware apps, which have been since removed, include fitness, photoshopping and gaming apps, and were installed a total of 30 million times, researchers at...
Is Privacy Really iPhone? Researchers Weigh in on Apple's Targeted Ad Tracking
Apple has a consistent track record of implementing privacy controls, which it has been touting via a series of saturating “Privacy? That’s iPhone” television ads. Yet, though it may be deservedly capitalizing on the increasing privacy-consciousness of consumers out there and the negative headlin...
Snapchat: Server-Side Request Forgery using Javascript allows to exfill data from Google Metadata
Hey there, I was looking at your ads site with @daeken, we found some weird behavior in the import function of the creative app. Here are the steps: POC - Login to https://business.snapchat.com/ - Go to creative library - New Creative - Under "Topsnap Media", click on "Create" - Click on any of t...
A week in security (March 25 – 31)
Last week, we looked at plugin vulnerabilities, location tracking app problems, and talked about plain text password woes. We also looked at federal data privacy regulation and took a deep dive into BatMobi Adware. Other cybersecurity news Poisoned software update headache for ASUS Source: The...