CVE-2020-1896

Facebook Hermes stack overflow in the builtin apply path (before commit 86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2) could allow arbitrary code execution via crafted JavaScript. The vulnerability is exploitable only when the host application evaluates untrusted JavaScript, so most React Native apps ...

Facebook Hermes Buffer Error Vulnerability

Facebook Hermes is a JavaScript engine from Facebook Inc. in the United States. The engine is targeted at React Native apps, going to improve the performance of mobile client application apps, but not for server-side infrastructures such as browsers & Node.js. Facebook Hermes suffers from a buffe...

Facebook Ad Services Let Anyone Target US Military Personnel

Researchers warn that an advertising platform with categories like “Army” and “United States Air Force Security Forces” could be abused...

Google Research Pinpoints Security Soft Spot in Multiple Chat Platforms

Google Project Zero researcher Natalie Silvanovich outlined what she believes is a common theme when it comes to serious vulnerabilities impacting leading chat platforms. The research, published Tuesday, identifies a common denominator within chat platforms, called “calling state machine”, which...

WhatsApp Delays Controversial 'Data-Sharing' Privacy Policy Update By 3 Months

WhatsApp said on Friday that it wouldn't enforce its recently announced controversial data sharing policy update until May 15. Originally set to go into effect next month on February 8, the three-month delay comes following "a lot of misinformation" about a revision to its privacy policy that...

WhatsApp Delays Controversial 'Data-Sharing' Privacy Policy Update By 3 Months

WhatsApp said on Friday that it wouldn't enforce its recently announced controversial data sharing policy update until May 15. Originally set to go into effect next month on February 8, the three-month delay comes following "a lot of misinformation" about a revision to its privacy policy that...

Facebook sues developer of data scraping extensions for Chrome

By Sudais Asif The developer is a Portuguese company that Facebook claims developed malicious Chrome extensions allowing data scraping. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook sues developer of data scraping extensions for Chrome...

Facebook: Malicious Chrome Extension Developers Scraped Profile Data

Facebook has filed legal action against two Chrome extension developers that the company said was scraping user profile data – including names and profile IDs – as well as other browser-related information. The two unnamed developers under the business name Oink and Stuff, developed Chrome...

Chinese firm leaked 200m Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn users’ data

By Deeba Ahmed The 400GB worth of data was exposed due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch database. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese firm leaked 200m Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn users data...

Post-Backlash, WhatsApp Spells Out Privacy Policy Updates

WhatsApp is making explicit clarifications around its updated privacy policy, after reports ran amok about the messaging app mandating all-encompassing data-sharing with parent company Facebook. The app’s new privacy policy and terms of service, which will go into effect Feb. 8, says that WhatsAp...

Changes in WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy

If youre a WhatsApp user, pay attention to the changes in the privacy policy that youre being forced to agree with. In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability to opt out of having account data turned over to Facebook. Now, an updated privacy policy is changing that. Come next month, users wi...

WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years

A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016...

Facebook’s Mandatory Data-Sharing Rules for WhatsApp Spark Ire

WhatsApp is asking users to accept a new privacy policy that will share all of their data with Facebook beginning Feb. 8, a move that has users sounding an alarm once again about the privacy of their information in the hands of the social media giant. The Facebook-owned messaging service already...

WhatsApp Will Disable Your Account If You Don't Agree Sharing Data With Facebook

"Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA," opens WhatsApp's privacy policy. "Since we started WhatsApp, we've aspired to build our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind." But come February 8, 2021, this opening statement will no longer find a place in the policy. The...

WhatsApp Will Disable Your Account If You Don't Agree Sharing Data With Facebook

"Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA," opens WhatsApp's privacy policy. "Since we started WhatsApp, we've aspired to build our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind." But come February 8, 2021, this opening statement will no longer find a place in the policy. The...

Facebook bug exposed identity of page admin using group doc feature

By Sudais Asif The bug was reported to Facebook under its bug bounty program after which the researcher was awarded $5,000. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook bug exposed identity of page admin using group doc feature...

Hackers phish 615,000 login credentials by using Facebook ads

By Sudais Asif Once again, Facebook ads have been misused by cybercriminals in a large-scale phishing scam to steal victims' login credentials. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers phish 615,000 login credentials by using Facebook ads...

A week in security (December 14 – December 20)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we kept you updated on the SolarWinds attack, we warned about the special dangers that come with the Christmas season, published a threat profile for the Egregor ransomware, warned how a lead generation scam was targeting potential Malwarebytes MSP partners, and...

Facebook bug exposed email addresses of Instagram users

By Deeba Ahmed According to the researcher, the private information of Instagram users was just a DM away. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook bug exposed email addresses of Instagram users...

The many ways you can be scammed on Facebook, part II

In part 1 of this article series, we looked at data mining schemes, scam ad campaigns, concert tickets scams, and PayPal fund transfer scams. Today, we continue to list down the other scams you might encounter on Facebook. Bitcoin trading scam Who would have thought that a "simple" phishing schem...