Facebook Will Verify the Physical Location of Ad Buyers with Paper Postcards

It's not a great solution, but it's something: The process of using postcards containing a specific code will be required for advertising that mentions a specific candidate running for a federal office, Katie Harbath, Facebook's global director of policy programs, said. The requirement will not...

Someone hacked this advertising screen to mine Bitcoin

By Waqas The sudden surge in the price of Bitcoin encouraged the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone hacked this advertising screen to mine Bitcoin...

pcworld.com.vn XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-549679 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| pcworld.com.vn 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...

How to remove adware from your PC

“Close. Close. Close. Close,” my mother mumbles as she aggressively clicks her mouse over and over. “What’s wrong, Ma?” I’m home for the holidays, and cozy, cold evenings are often spent in front of the fireplace. This night, however, my mom is stuck at her computer. “This stupid thing won’t stop...

Gone Phishing For The Holidays

Written by Or Katz and Amiram Cohen Overview: While our team, Akamai's Enterprise Threat Protector Security Research Team, monitored internet traffic throughout the 2017 holiday season, we spotted a wide-spread phishing campaign targeting users through an advertising tactic. During the six week...

Joomla! iJoomla com_adagency plugin SQL Injection Vulnerability

Joomla! is the U.S. Open Source Matters team developed a set of open source content management system CMS, the system provides RSS feeds, site search and other functions. iJoomla comadagency plugin is used in one of the advertising plug-ins . A SQL injection vulnerability exists in version 6.0.9 ...

Stripchat bot spells block

Here at Malwarebytes, we spent a lot of time and effort scouring the Internet looking for malicious websites that we can protect our users from. Sometimes, these websites are pushing malware or some kind of scam. Other times it comes down to bad advertising practices that are used to fool the use...

stylegroup-uniform.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-500905 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| stylegroup-uniform.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Disclosure Standard:| Coordinated...

Joomla VP Conversion Tracking 1.7 SQL Injection

Exploit Title: VP Conversion Tracking Plugin - SQL Injection Vulnerability Google Dork: N/A Date: 02.01.2018 Author: Abde Ouabala @AbdeOuabala url : https://www.virtueplanet.com/extensions/vp-conversion-tracking Version : 1.7 Tested on: BackBox Linux Description : plugin that helps you to track...

Jack of all trades

Nowadays, it's all too easy to end up with malicious apps on your smartphone, even if you're using the official Google Play app store. The situation gets even worse when you go somewhere other than the official store – fake applications, limited security checks, and so on. However, the spread of...

Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called "Internet of Things" devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in OneSevenEight Advertising Media Website Construction System

178 Advertising Media is a company dedicated to providing digital marketing and new media planning, promotion and operation services for Chinese enterprises. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the website construction system of 178 Advertising Media, which can be exploited by attackers to...

Mobile Menace Monday: despicable adware

Are you wondering how that mysterious icon ended up on your Android phone's start screen? Annoyed at the ads clogging your notification bar? You aren't alone. Thousands of Android apps now include software that shoves marketing icons onto your phone's start screen or pushes advertising into your...

Tech support scammers abuse native ad and content provider Taboola to serve malvertising (updated)

A large number of publishers - big and small - are monetizing their sites by selling space for companies that provide so-called native advertising, cited as more effective and engaging than traditional banner ads. Indeed, on a news or entertainment site, users are more inclined to click on links...

The Data Tinder Collects, Saves, and Uses

Under European law, service providers like Tinder are required to show users what information they have on them when requested. This author requested, and this is what she received: Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook "likes," my photos from Instagram even after I...

A week in security (September 4 – September 10)

Last week, we looked into expired domain names being used for malvertising, delved into dubious Facebook apps, and checked out Chinese seminar scams. We also explained the whys and wherefores of false positives, explained what Google is doing with HTTPs, warned you away from a fake DHS email, and...

WordPress Ads Pro 3.4 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

WordPress Ads Pro plugin versions 3.4 and below suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities. Exploit Title: Ads Pro Plugin - Multi-Purpose WordPress Advertising Manager = 5.0.12 AND time-based blind Payload:...

WordPress Ads Pro 3.4 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Ads Pro Plugin - Multi-Purpose WordPress Advertising Manager = 5.0.12 AND time-based blind Payload: bsaprostats=1&[email protected]&bsaproid=xx AND SLEEP5...

Over 500 Android Apps On Google Play Store Found Spying On 100 Million Users

Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be infected with a malicious ad library that secretly distributes spyware to users and can perform dangerous operations. Since 90 per cent of Android apps is free to...

Part 2: Reading SPAM For Research

A couple weeks ago, I posted a blog that is a follow up of an article I published in Information Security Magazine. In that post I wrote about collecting phishing samples and identifying domain squatters that might be looking to harvest information from their target. This is the final blog entry...