Facebook WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business have unspecified vulnerabilities

Facebook WhatsApp is a suite of mobile applications from Facebook Inc. in the United States that use the Internet to send text messages. The application uses the contact information in a smartphone to find contacts using the program to send texts, pictures, etc. WhatsApp Business is the commercia...

Facebook WhatsApp Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Facebook WhatsApp is a suite of mobile applications from Facebook Inc. in the United States that use the Internet to send text messages. The application uses the contact information in a smartphone to find contacts using the program to send texts, pictures, etc. WhatsApp Business is the commercia...

Facebook Had Years to Fix Flaw That Leaked 500M Users’ Data

Software makers can’t catch every bug every time, but Facebook had ample warning about the privacy problems with its “contact import” feature...

Facebook ads dropped malware posing as Clubhouse app for PC

By Deeba Ahmed Upon clicking the ad, the user is taken to a fake Clubhouse app website that looks quite authentic but its download link drops malware. Last year, in two separate incidents hackers abused Facebook ads to phish 615,000 account credentials. Then, the infamous Ragnar Locker ransomware...

Data from 500M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale Online

Personal data from more than 500 million LinkedIn users has been posted for sale online in yet another incident of threat actors scraping data from public profiles and slinging it online for potential cybercriminal misuse. Hackers posted an archive containing data they said includes LinkedIn IDs,...

Facebook: Stolen Data Scraped from Platform in 2019

The leak of personal data from more than 533 million Facebook users was scraped from their profiles by malicious actors because of a security flaw in the company’s platform prior to September 2019, the social media giant said Tuesday. Threat actors posted that data to a public hacker forum over t...

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?

The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers...

Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked?

Neer-do-wells leaked personal data -- including phone numbers -- for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove...

Has Facebook leaked your phone number?

Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500 million phone numbers—has been made public. These phone numbers have been in the hands of some cybercriminals since 2019 due to a vulnerability in Facebook that...

Facebook WhatsApp 缓冲区错误漏洞

Facebook WhatsApp is a suite of mobile applications from Facebook Inc. in the United States that use the Internet to send text messages. The application uses the contact information in a smartphone to find contacts using the program to send texts, pictures, etc. WhatsApp Business is the commercia...

533M Facebook Accounts Leaked Online: Check if You Are Exposed

More than 533 million Facebook users had their personal information posted to a public hacker forum, a move that is raising concerns about an uptick in cybercrime leveraging the credentials. The publicly released Facebook user data is believed to be part of a 2019 “Add Friend” Facebook security b...

A week in security (March 29 – April 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Malwarebytes senior security researcher JP Taggart, who talked to us about why you need to trust your VPN. You’ve likely heard the benefits of using a VPN: You can watch TV shows restricted to certain countries, you can encrypt your web traffic...

The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption

The government's latest attack is aimed at discouraging the company from following through with its planned rollout across platforms...

533 Million Facebook Users' Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online

In what's likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability. The leaked data includes full...

533 Million Facebook Users' Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online

In what's likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability. The leaked data includes full...

Facebook data of 500M+ users from 106 countries leaked online

By Waqas The data was leaked earlier today on an infamous hacker forum without users' Facebook accounts passwords. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook data of 500M+ users from 106 countries leaked online...

Facebook removes 100s of accounts for spreading iOS, Android malware

By Waqas The hackers were using malware campaigns to target iOS and Android devices used by Uyghurs living outside China including journalists. Facebook has removed accounts of hackers possibly backed by the Chinese government for targeting Uyghur community members living abroad. According to...

Official Facebook Pixel Plugin for WordPress < 3.0.0 PHP Object Injection

The WordPress Official Facebook Pixel Plugin installed on the remote host is affected by a PHP object injection vulnerability. Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number. No source data...

Official Facebook Pixel Plugin for WordPress 3.x < 3.0.4 Cross-Site Request Forgery

The WordPress Official Facebook Pixel Plugin installed on the remote host is affected by a Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability. Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number. No source data...

Facebook Disrupts Spy Effort Aimed at Uyghurs

Facebook has taken on a group of hackers in China that target the Uyghur ethnic group with cyberespionage activity. The hacking group, known as Earth Empusa or Evil Eye, was targeting activists, dissidents and journalists involved in the Uyghur community, primarily those living abroad in Australi...