Pbot: evolving adware

The adware PBot PythonBot got its name because its core modules are written in Python. It was more than a year ago that we detected the first member of this family. Since then, we have encountered several modifications of the program, one of which went beyond adware by installing and running a...

Beyond the Looking Glass - The OTT Evolution in India

India, while at the cusp of becoming a digital, mobile first country, is also in the middle of evolving content consumption patterns. Hotstar's India Watch Report states that the video consumption in the country has seen a five-fold growth in just one year, with most of this growth is fuelled by...

Social media: A treasure trove of spam and scams

There are two kinds of spam associated with social media. There are spam ads that actually live on social media, and there is spam that comes in your inbox, courtesy of social media. Both thrive by using data from your social media accounts. But how do spammers know how to target you and send you...

2018 Fraud World Cup

There are only two weeks to go before the start of the massive soccer event — FIFA World Cup. This championship has already attracted the attention of millions worldwide, including a fair few cybercriminals. Long before kick-off, email accounts began bulging with soccer-related spam, and scammers...

Vega Stealer Malware Takes Aim at Chrome, Firefox

A malware dubbed Vega Stealer has been uncovered, looking to make off with saved credentials and credit-card information in the Chrome and Firefox browsers. While it’s a simple payload for now, researchers said it has the ability to evolve into something more concerning in the future. Proofpoint,...

advertising.amazon.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-607726 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| advertising.amazon.de Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

advertising.amazon.fr XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-606870 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| advertising.amazon.fr Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

advertising.amazon.es XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-606869 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| advertising.amazon.es Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

advertising.amazon.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-606866 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| advertising.amazon.de Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

advertising.amazon.ca XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-606863 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| advertising.amazon.ca Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs

SAN FRANCISCO – Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted to third-party advertisers. “The scale of what we first thought was...

Leaking ads

When we use popular apps with good ratings from official app stores we assume they are safe. This is partially true – usually these apps have been developed with security in mind and have been reviewed by the app store's security team. However, we found that because of third-party SDKs many popul...

COPPA Compliance

Interesting research: "'Won't Somebody Think of the Children?' Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale": Abstract: We present a scalable dynamic analysis framework that allows for the automatic evaluation of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. We use our system to analyze mobile apps' compliance...

Hackers compromise AOL advertising platform to mine cryptocurrency

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Trend Mirco have discovered that This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers compromise AOL advertising platform to mine cryptocurrency...

CVE-2017-13288

In writeToParcel and readFromParcel of PeriodicAdvertisingReport.java, there is a permission bypass due to a 64/32bit int mismatch. This could lead to a local escalation of privilege where the user can start an activity with system privileges, with no additional execution privileges needed. User...

Google Android System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-07452)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA. An elevation vulnerability exists in the writeToParcel and readFromParcel of the PeriodicAdvertisingReport.java file in Android versions 8.0 and 8.1. A local attacker can exploit...

Hijacking Computers for Cryptocurrency Mining

Interesting paper "A first look at browser-based cryptojacking": Abstract: In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies; in particular, the mining of Monero through Coinhive and similar code-bases. In this model, a user visiting a website will download ...

Stored XSS Vulnerability in xycms Ad Design Center Web System

xycms advertising design center website system is to asp + access for the development of advertising company website. A stored XSS vulnerability exists in the xycms Advertising Design Center website system. The vulnerability stems from the program's failure to perform effective filtering. A remot...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in xycms Advertising Design Center Website System

xycms advertising design center website system is to asp + access for the development of advertising company website. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the xycms Advertising Design Center website system. The vulnerability stems from the program's failure to effectively filter the variable...

samsunolay.com Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-570352 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| samsunolay.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| Open Redirect / CWE-601 CVSSv3 Score:| 3.4...