MAL-2024-11319 Malicious code in bytedance-i18n-ghook (npm)

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MAL-2024-11258 Malicious code in @bytedanc/mona-client-web (npm)

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MAL-2024-11260 Malicious code in @bytedanc-ad/market-ui-vue2 (npm)

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Malicious code in byted-df (PyPI)

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TikTok ordered to close Canada offices following “national security review”

The Government of Canada ordered the TikTok Technology Canada Inc. to close its offices in the country following a national security review. This decision was made in accordance with the Investment Canada Act, which allows for the review of foreign investments that may be injurious to Canada’s...

Canada Orders TikTok to Shut Down Canadian Operations Over Security Concerns

The Canadian government on Wednesday ordered ByteDance-owned TikTok to dissolve its operations in the country, citing national security risks, but stopped short of instituting a ban on the popular video-sharing platform. "The decision was based on the information and evidence collected over the...

TikTok 安全漏洞

Bytedance TikTok Jieyin International Version is an application for creating and sharing short videos by Chinese company Bytedance. A security vulnerability exists in TikTok versions prior to 34.5.5 that stems from allowing traversal of the Lynxview JavaScript interface via deep links...

TikTok facing fresh lawsuit in US over children’s privacy

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has announced its referred a complaint against TikTok and parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice. The investigation originally focused on Musical.ly which was acquired by ByteDance on November 10, 2017, and merged it into TikTok. The FTC started a...

TikTok comes one step closer to a US ban

The US Senate has approved a bill that would effectively ban TikTok from the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance gives up its share of the immensely popular app. Social video platform TikTok has experienced explosive growth since it first appeared in 2017, and is now said to have well over 1.5...

TikTok faces ban in US unless it parts ways with Chinese owner ByteDance

The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would effectively ban TikTok from the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance gives up its share of the immensely popular app. TikTok is an immensely popular social media platform that allows users to create, share, and discover, short video clips. It...

Former TikTok exec: Chinese Communist Party had "God mode" entry to US data

A former executive at TikToks parent company ByteDance has claimed in court documents that the Chinese Communist Party CCP had access to TikTok data, despite the data being stored in the US. The allegations were made in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit which was filed in May in the San Francisco...

New TikTok Privacy Policy Confirms Chinese Staff Can Access European Users' Data

Popular short-form video-sharing service TikTok is revising its privacy policy for European users to make it explicitly clear that user data can be accessed by some employees from across the world, including China. The ByteDance-owned platform, which currently stores European user data in the U.S...

JVN#10921428: Lemon8 App fails to restrict access permissions

Lemon8 by ByteDance K.K. provides the function to access a requested URL using Custom URL Scheme/DeepLink. The App does not restrict access to the function properly CWE-939 which may be exploited to direct the App to access any sites. Impact A remote attacker may lead a user to access an arbitrar...

TikTok owner ByteDance pushed a pro-China agenda to Americans, say former employees

Controversy over supposed pro-China messaging in apps from TikTok owner Bytedance continues to grow. Tales are emerging relating to a now shelved app called TopBuzz. Former employees have spoken to BuzzFeed, making claims of both pro-China content promotion and forms of censorship elsewhere...

TikTok Assures U.S. Lawmakers it's Working to Safeguard User Data From Chinese Staff

Following heightened worries that U.S. users' data had been accessed by TikTok engineers in China between September 2021 and January 2022, the company sought to assuage U.S. lawmakers that it's taking steps to "strengthen data security." The admission that some China-based employees can access...

Malicious code in bytedance-js-jdk (npm)

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MAL-2022-1746 Malicious code in bytedance-js-jdk (npm)

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Bytedance TikTok 安全漏洞

Bytedance TikTok Jieyin International Version is an application for creating and sharing short videos by Chinese company Bytedance. A security vulnerability exists in TikTok versions prior to 23.8.4, which stems from a crafted URL unauthenticated deep link that can force com.zhiliaoapp.musically...

Security Analysis Clears TikTok of Censorship, Privacy Accusations

Nebulous privacy and censorship criticisms about video social-media app TikTok have been swirling for months. Security analysts from CitizenLab are the first to collect real data on the platform’s source code, and reported that TikTok meets reasonable standards of security and privacy. The...

TikTok Flaw Lay Bare Phone Numbers, User IDs For Phishing Attacks

A vulnerability in the popular TikTok short-form video-sharing platform could have allowed attackers to easily compile users’ phone numbers, unique user IDs and other data ripe for phishing attacks. TikTok, owned by ByteDance, has more than 800 million active users worldwide. The vulnerability,...