US Navy ship Facebook page hijacked to stream video games

The official Facebook page of the US Navy’s destroyer-class warship, USS Kidd, has been hijacked. According to Task & Purpose, who first reported on the incident, the account has done nothing but stream Age of Empires, an award-winning, history-based real-time strategy RTS video game wherein...

The Impact of Third-Party Scripts on the Facebook Outage

A lot has already been written about the Facebook outage earlier this week. In case you missed it if that’s possible, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp were all down for several hours on Monday. Facebook provided an update on the cause of the outage late Monday, citing a...

Facebook shoots own foot, hits Instagram and WhatsApp too

Mark Zuckerberg was left counting the personal cost of bad PR yesterday about $6 billion, according to Bloomberg on a day when his company couldnt get out of the news headlines, for all the wrong reasons. The billionaire Facebook CEOs bad day at the office started with whistleblower Frances Hauge...

Facebook Blames Outage on Faulty Router Configuration

As of Monday night, Facebook had crawled back from what may have been its longest blackout ever and apologized for the mass outage that left billions of users locked out of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR for about six hours. \Sincere\ apologies to everyone impacted by...

Facebook Is Down

Facebook -- along with Instagram and WhatsApp -- went down globally today. Basically, someone deleted their BGP records, which made their DNS fall apart. …at approximately 11:39 a.m. ET today 15:39 UTC, someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the companys Border Gateway Protocol BGP...

Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today

The problem relates to something called BGP routing, and it took down every part of Facebook's business...

Facebook Outage Drags Down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus VR

As of Monday afternoon, Facebook had been flat on its face for hours, suffering a simultaneous worldwide outage not only on its main site, but also at its Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR subsidiaries. We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re worki...

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?

Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We dont yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other...

Facebook down with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp service disruption

By Waqas Facebook down? Yes, Facebook is down along with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR due to DNS-related issues. You are not alone; the social media giant Facebook along with its subsidiaries including Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR are down and suffering ongoing...

The Senate Is Mad as Hell at Facebook—Again

The latest hearing on Instagram and teen mental health was the depressing work of a legislature that can’t legislate...

Facebook Releases New Tool That Finds Security and Privacy Bugs in Android Apps

Facebook on Wednesday announced it's open-sourcing Mariana Trench, an Android-focused static analysis platform the company uses to detect and prevent security and privacy bugs in applications created for the mobile operating system at scale. "Mariana Trench is designed to be able to scan large...

3.8 Billion Users’ Combined Clubhouse, Facebook Data Up for Sale

On its own, the database of 3.8 billion phone numbers leaked from social-media platform Clubhouse didn’t have much value on the underground market. In fact, they were eventually dumped in a hacker forum for free. But an enterprising threat actor has reportedly combined those phone numbers with 53...

Facebook ParlAI 1.0.0 Code Execution / Deserialization

Exploit Title: Facebook ParlAI 1.0.0 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data in parlai Date: 2021-09-11 Exploit Author: Abhiram V Vendor Homepage: https://parl.ai/ Software Link: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ParlAI Version: 1.1.0 Tested on: Linux CVE: CVE-2021-24040 References :...

Facebook ParlAI 1.0.0 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data in parlai Vulnerability

Exploit Title: Facebook ParlAI 1.0.0 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data in parlai Exploit Author: Abhiram V Vendor Homepage: https://parl.ai/ Software Link: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ParlAI Version: 1.1.0 Tested on: Linux CVE: CVE-2021-24040 References :...

Facebook ParlAI 1.0.0 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data in parlai

Exploit Title: Facebook ParlAI 1.0.0 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data in parlai Date: 2021-09-11 Exploit Author: Abhiram V Vendor Homepage: https://parl.ai/ Software Link: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ParlAI Version: 1.1.0 Tested on: Linux CVE: CVE-2021-24040 References :...

LA Police Are Collecting Detainees' Social Media Information

According to new documents, officers ask people they stop for their Facebook and Twitter account details, and then feed the data into Palantir...

WhatsApp to Finally Let Users Encrypt Their Chat Backups in the Cloud

WhatsApp on Friday announced it will roll out support for end-to-end encrypted chat backups on the cloud for Android and iOS users, paving the way for storing information such as chat messages and photos in Apple iCloud or Google Drive in a cryptographically secure manner. The optional feature,...

Experts Uncover Mobile Spyware Attacks Targeting Kurdish Ethnic Group

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday released new findings that reveal a year-long mobile espionage campaign against the Kurdish ethnic group to deploy two Android backdoors that masquerade as legitimate apps. Active since at least March 2020, the attacks leveraged as many as six dedicated Facebo...

A week in security (August 30 – September 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs ProxyToken: another nail-biter from Microsoft Exchange Macs turn on apps signed by Symantec, treat them as malware Google Play sign-ins can be abused to track another person’s movements FTC bans SpyFone and its CEO from continuing to sell stalkerware BrakTooth...

WhatsApp hit with €225 million fine for GDPR violations

WhatsApp was hit with a €225 million fine for violating the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, the European Union’s sweeping data protection law that has been in effect for more than three years. The fine represents the highest ever penalty levied by the Irish Data Protection Commission,...