Exposed Database Reveals 100K+ Compromised Facebook Accounts

Researchers have uncovered a wide-ranging global scam targeting Facebook users, after finding an unsecured database used by fraudsters to store the usernames and passwords of at least 100,000 victims. Researchers said that the cybercriminals behind the scam were tricking Facebook victims into...

A Ransomware Gang Bought Facebook Ads to Troll Its Victim

Covid-19 research hacking, the Pentagon's Photoshop antics, and more of the week's top security news...

Spam and phishing in Q3 2020

Quarterly highlights Worming their way in: cybercriminal tricks of the trade These days, many companies distribute marketing newsletters via online platforms. In terms of capabilities, such platforms are quite diverse: they send out advertising and informational messages, harvest statistics for...

PowerPoint 2003/2007/2010 Silent Builder Exploit

The exploit allows you to convert EXE & JAR to .PPS its coded 100% from scratch and used by private method to assure a great stability and lasting FUD time. You are able to attach it to the most e-mail providers nowadays everyone uses Microsoft Office so it gives a huge chance of success. This...

Ragnar Locker Ransomware Gang Takes Out Facebook Ads in Key New Tactic

The Ragnar Locker ransomware group has decided to ratchet up the pressure on its latest high-profile victim, Italian liquor conglomerate Campari, by taking out Facebook ads threatening to release the 2TB of sensitive data it stole in a Nov. 3 attack – unless a $15 million ransom is paid in Bitcoi...

Ragnar Locker ransomware gang using Facebook ads to extort victims

By Deeba Ahmed Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has attacked multiple firms recently, but now it has taken extortion to the next level. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ragnar Locker ransomware gang using Facebook ads to extort victims...

Ransomware Group Turns to Facebook Ads

Its bad enough that many ransomware gangs now have blogs where they publish data stolen from companies that refuse to make an extortion payment. Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. On the evening o...

Wireshark 3.2.x < 3.2.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 3.2.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-3.2.8 advisory. - In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.7, the GQUIC dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gquic...

Wireshark 3.2.x < 3.2.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote macOS / Mac OS X host is prior to 3.2.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-3.2.8 advisory. - In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.7, the GQUIC dissector could crash. This was addressed in...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 9 package wireshark version 3.2.8-alt1

3.2.8-alt1 built Nov. 6, 2020 Anton Farygin in task 261029 Nov. 3, 2020 Anton Farygin - 3.2.8 - fixes: CVE-2020-28030 the GQUIC dissector could crash. CVE-2020-26575 the Facebook Zero Protocol aka FBZERO dissector could enter an infinite loop...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package wireshark version 3.2.8-alt1

Nov. 3, 2020 Anton Farygin 3.2.8-alt1 - 3.2.8 - fixes: CVE-2020-28030 the GQUIC dissector could crash. CVE-2020-26575 the Facebook Zero Protocol aka FBZERO dissector could enter an infinite loop...

A week in security (October 26 – November 1)

We had a very busy week at Malwarebytes Labs. We offered advice on Googles patch for an actively exploited zero-day bug that affects Chrome users, our podcast talked about finding consumer value in Cybersecurity Awareness Month with Jamie Court, we provided guidance about keeping ransomware cash...

'Copyright Violation' Notices Lead to Facebook 2FA Bypass

Scammers have hatched a new way to attempt to bypass two-factor authentication 2FA protections on Facebook. Cybercriminals are sending bogus copyright-violation notices with the threat of taking pages down unless the user attempts to appeal. The first step in the “appeal?” The victim is asked to...

Facebook hidden profile data disclosure Exploit

This lets you gather a bunch of information, even if it is private. phone number, email, ip-address, birthday, etc. Material can automatically collect data and save, possible to connect a proxy list...

Researchers: Instagram, LinkedIn Vulnerable to Preview-Link RCE Security Woes

UPDATE Link previews in popular chat apps on iOS and Android are a firehose of security and privacy issues, researchers have found. At risk are Facebook Messenger, LINE, Slack, Twitter Direct Messages, Zoom and many others. In the case of Instagram and LinkedIn, it’s even possible to execute remo...

Facebook Hermes Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

Facebook Hermes is a small and lightweight JavaScript engine , optimized for running React Native on Android . Facebook Hermes 8cb935cd3b2321c46aa6b7ed8454d95c75a7fca0 Previous versions of the JavaScript interpreter have an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this...

CVE-2020-1915

An out-of-bounds read in the JavaScript Interpreter in Facebook Hermes prior to commit 8cb935cd3b2321c46aa6b7ed8454d95c75a7fca0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service attack or possible further memory corruption via crafted JavaScript. Note that this is only exploitable if the application...

Memory corruption

An out-of-bounds read in the JavaScript Interpreter in Facebook Hermes prior to commit 8cb935cd3b2321c46aa6b7ed8454d95c75a7fca0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service attack or possible further memory corruption via crafted JavaScript. Note that this is only exploitable if the application...

CVE-2020-1915

An out-of-bounds read in the JavaScript Interpreter in Facebook Hermes prior to commit 8cb935cd3b2321c46aa6b7ed8454d95c75a7fca0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service attack or possible further memory corruption via crafted JavaScript. Note that this is only exploitable if the application...

CVE-2020-1915

CVE-2020-1915 targets Facebook Hermes’ JavaScript Interpreter. A crafted JavaScript input can trigger an out-of-bounds read prior to commit 8cb935cd3b2321c46aa6b7ed8454d95c75a7fca0, enabling denial-of-service or possible memory corruption. Exploitation is only relevant if the app using Hermes eva...