Messaging Apps Have an Eavesdropping Problem

Vulnerabilities in Signal, Facebook Messenger, Google Duo, and more all point to a pervasive privacy issue...

Experts Uncover Several C&C Servers Linked to WellMess Malware

Cybersecurity researchers on Friday unmasked new command-and-control C2 infrastructure belonging to the Russian threat actor tracked as APT29, aka Cozy Bear, that has been spotted actively serving WellMess malware as part of an ongoing attack campaign. More than 30 C2 servers operated by the...

Hackers Posed as Aerobics Instructors for Years to Target Aerospace Employees

An Iranian cyberespionage group masqueraded as an aerobics instructor on Facebook in an attempt to infect the machine of an employee of an aerospace defense contractor with malware as part of a years-long social engineering and targeted malware campaign. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint...

Facebook HHVM Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-55183)

Facebook HHVM aka HipHop Virtual Machine is a virtual machine from Facebook that significantly improves the performance of PHP loading dynamic pages. Facebook HHVM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to perform out-of-bounds writes on the heap,...

Facebook HHVM 输入验证错误漏洞

Facebook HHVM aka HipHop Virtual Machine is a virtual machine from Facebook that significantly improves the performance of PHP loading dynamic pages. Facebook HHVM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to perform out-of-bounds writes on the heap,...

MosaicLoader Malware Delivers Facebook Stealers, RATs

A never-before-documented Windows malware strain dubbed MosaicLoader is spreading worldwide, acting as a full-service malware-delivery platform that’s being used to infect victims with remote-access trojans RATs, Facebook cookie stealers and other threats. That’s according to Bitdefender...

Facebook Suspends Accounts Used by Iranian Hackers to Target US Military Personnel

Facebook on Thursday disclosed it dismantled a "sophisticated" online cyber espionage campaign conducted by Iranian hackers targeting about 200 military personnel and companies in the defense and aerospace sectors in the U.S., U.K., and Europe using fake online personas on its platform. The socia...

Facebook Catches Iranian Spies Catfishing US Military Targets

The hackers posed as recruiters, journalists, and hospitality workers to lure their victims...

Android Apps in Google Play Harvest Facebook Credentials

A set of nine malicious Android apps that steal Facebook credentials were found on Google Play, which racked up a collective 5.9 million installations before Google removed them. According to Dr. Web’s malware analysts, the applications were fully functional, so that victims remained in the dark...

9 apps with 6M installs stole Facebook logins of Android users

By Habiba Rashid In total, 10 of these Trojan apps were found, out of which, 9 were available on Google Play. Here is the list of malicious apps. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 9 apps with 6M installs stole Facebook logins of Android users...

Android Apps with 5.8 million Installs Caught Stealing Users' Facebook Passwords

Google intervened to remove nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company's Play Store after the apps were caught furtively stealing users' Facebook login credentials. "The applications were fully functional, which was supposed to weaken the vigilance of potential...

Facebook Sues 4 Vietnamese for Hacking Accounts and $36 Million Ad Fraud

Facebook on Tuesday revealed it filed two separate legal actions against perpetrators who abused its ad platform to run deceptive advertisements in violation of the company's Terms and Advertising Policies. "In the first case, the defendants are a California marketing company and its agents...

Microsoft Edge Bug Could've Let Hackers Steal Your Secrets for Any Site

Microsoft last week rolled out updates for the Edge browser with fixes for two security issues, one of which concerns a security bypass vulnerability that could be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary code in the context of any website. Tracked as CVE-2021-34506 CVSS score: 5.4, the weakness...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in livehelperchat/fbmessenger

✍️ Description The Facebook notifications of livehelperchat fbmessenger extension can be modified listing new notifications. However, the template is used incorrectly resulting in a CSTI injection which leads to stored XSS. 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept Install the livechat Install fbmessenger extension...

Facebook WhatsApp for Android path traversal vulnerability

Facebook WhatsApp is a mobile application from Facebook, Inc. that uses the Internet to send text messages. A security vulnerability exists in WhatsApp for Android and WhatsApp Business for Android, which stems from a lack of file name validation when unpacking files, and could be exploited to...

Hackers could access photos, videos without unlocking your phone

By Deeba Ahmed The vulnerability existed in the Facebook Messenger Rooms video chat feature and exposed Android smartphone users to intrusion. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers could access photos, videos without unlocking your phone...

Facebook Hermes Input Validation Error Vulnerability

Facebook Hermes is a JavaScript engine from Facebook, Inc. The engine is targeted at React Native applications to improve the performance of mobile client application apps, but is not applicable to server-side infrastructures such as browsers ＆ Node.js. An input validation error vulnerability...

Instagram‌ ‌Bug Allowed Anyone to View Private Accounts Without Following Them

Instagram has patched a new flaw that allowed anyone to view archived posts and stories posted by private accounts without having to follow them. "This bug could have allowed a malicious user to view targeted media on Instagram," security researcher Mayur Fartade said in a Medium post today. "An...

Facebook Hermes 资源管理错误漏洞

Facebook Hermes is a JavaScript engine from Facebook, Inc. The engine is targeted at React Native applications to improve the performance of mobile client application apps, but is not applicable to server-side infrastructures such as browsers ＆ Node.js. An input validation error vulnerability...

A week in security (June 7 – June 13)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Amazon SIdewalk starts sharing your WiFi data tomorrow, thanks White hat, black hat, grey hat hackers: what’s the difference? Can two VPN “wrongs” make a right? Lock and Code S02E10 DOJ recovers pipeline ransom, signals more aggressive approach to cybercrime 800...