CVE-2018-10500

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of Samsung Galaxy Apps Fixed in version 6.4.0.15. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw...

A week in security (September 17 – 23)

Last week, we took a look at a low level spam campaign on Twitter, explored the signs of falling victim to phishing, and examined a massive WordPress compromise. We also explained some SASL vulnerabilities and covered a breaking Emotet spam campaign. Other cybersecurity news: NewEgg attacked by...

Launching Process of Published Apps and Desktops for the Internal Network Through Citrix Storefront

This is the internal Network Flow of a Published Apps/Desktop Session through Citrix Storefront bypassing Citrix Netscaler Gateway for troubleshooting purposes...

Facebook Broadens Its Bug Bounty to Include Third-Party Apps

Starting Monday, Facebook will pay at least $600 to researchers who spot third-party apps behaving badly on its platform...

How To Check If Your Twitter Account Has Been Hacked

Did you ever wonder if your Twitter account has been hacked and who had managed to gain access and when it happened? Twitter now lets you know this. After Google and Facebook, Twitter now lets you see all the devices—laptop, phone, tablet, and otherwise—logged into your Twitter account. Twitter h...

How To Check If Your Twitter Account Has Been Hacked

Did you ever wonder if your Twitter account has been hacked and who had managed to gain access and when it happened? Twitter now lets you know this. After Google and Facebook, Twitter now lets you see all the devices—laptop, phone, tablet, and otherwise—logged into your Twitter account. Twitter h...

Mobile matters: How to ready your apps for the holiday shopping spike

While more consumers now shop on smartphones, retailers have a lot of work to do to make mobile shopping easy. Developers must account for the wide variety of mobile hardware and software, take into account how consumers use their phones in stores and ensure easy checkout. The cheer and good...

Apple Removes Several Trend Micro Apps For Collecting MacOS Users' Data

Apple has removed almost all popular security apps offered by well-known cyber-security vendor Trend Micro from its official Mac App Store after they were caught stealing users' sensitive data without their consent. The controversial apps in question include Dr Cleaner, Dr Cleaner Pro, Dr...

Answers to Your Questions on Our Apps in the Mac App Store

Updated Oct. 4; please scroll down for latest information. Reports that Trend Micro is “stealing user data” and sending them to an unidentified server in China are absolutely false. Trend Micro has completed an initial investigation of a privacy concern related to some of its macOS consumer...

Apple Finally Boots Sneaky Adware Doctor App from Mac App Store

UPDATE Apple removed the top-rated app Adware Doctor from its official Mac App Store after researchers publicly exposed the privacy-busting app on Friday. The app was removed the same day. In addition to Adware Doctor, Apple also took action against a number of different macOS apps that also...

‘Domestic Kitten’ Mobile Spyware Campaign Aims at Iranian Targets

A mobile spyware campaign against mainly Iranian citizens has been spotted – with evidence that the Iranian government might be involved. The operation is dubbed Domestic Kitten by Check Point researchers — “kitten” to follow common APT nomenclature for Iranian groups and “domestic” because they...

Samsung Galaxy Apps Privilege Access Control Vulnerability

Samsung Galaxy Apps is an application store program from Samsung South Korea that is used in Samsung cell phones. A privilege access control vulnerability exists in the handling of staging mode in Samsung Galaxy Apps. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by obtaining execute permission...

Samsung Galaxy Apps Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Samsung Galaxy Apps is an application store program from Samsung South Korea that is used in Samsung cell phones. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the handling of URLs in Samsung Galaxy Apps, which stems from the program failing to properly validate user-submitted data. A local...

Android OS API-Breaking Flaw Offers Useful WiFi Data to Bad Actors

An “API-breaking” vulnerability has been uncovered that potentially exposes Android device systems data to rogue apps — information that could be very useful to bad actors. Researchers from Nightwatch Cybersecurity System said that certain all-points-bulletins sent out by the Android OS expose...

Samsung Galaxy Apps Privilege Access Control Vulnerability

Samsung Galaxy Apps is an application store program from Samsung South Korea that is used in Samsung cell phones. A privilege access control vulnerability exists in the handling of push messages in Samsung Galaxy Apps. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by obtaining execute...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on Orbic Wonder Orbic/RC555L/RC555L:7.1.2/N2G47H/329100b:user/release-keys devices. Any app co-located on the device can send an intent to factory reset the device programmatically because of com.android.server.MasterClearReceiver. This does not require any user interactio...

BusyGasper – the unfriendly spy

In early 2018 our mobile intruder-detection technology was triggered by a suspicious Android sample that, as it turned out, belonged to an unknown spyware family. Further investigation showed that the malware, which we named BusyGasper, is not all that sophisticated, but demonstrates some unusual...

Instagram Adds 3 New Security Tools to Make its Platform More Secure

Instagram is growing quickly—and with the second most popular social media network in the world behind just Facebook, the photo-sharing network absolutely dominates when it comes to user interactions. And with great success comes great responsibility—responsibility to keep users' accounts safe,...

Crashing Mobile Apps Capture Screens, Leak Private Data

Several mobile software developer kits SDKs can capture sensitive user data when a mobile app crashes, exposing private data to an outside third party. Researchers at Appthority singled out SDKs offered by AppSee and TestFairy in a report published Monday. They warned that mobile users whose apps...

Countly Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Countly-server StoredPersistent XSS Vulnerability Date: Monday - 2018 13 August Author: 10:10AM Team Discovered By: Sleepy Software Link: https://github.com/Countly/countly-server Version: All Version Category: Web-apps Security Risk: Critical Tested on: GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04 - wi...