A week in security (June 8 – 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked into nasty search hijackers that worried a lot of Chrome users; a list of considerations for MSPs when looking for an RMM platform; the complaint faced by ParetoLogic, the company that issues SpeedyPC, a product that claims to find and remove various PC...

How Big Tech Leveraged Agile Principles to Build Empires

By Waqas We all know who the big 5 tech firms are. Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, and Google are... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Big Tech Leveraged Agile Principles to Build Empires...

Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit

This is a weird story: Hernandez was able to evade capture for so long because he used Tails, a version of Linux designed for users at high risk of surveillance and which routes all inbound and outbound connections through the open-source Tor network to anonymize it. According to Vice, the FBI ha...

A Bug in Facebook Messenger for Windows Could've Helped Malware Gain Persistence

Cybersecurity researchers at Reason Labs, the threat research arm of security solutions provider Reason Labs, today disclosed details of a vulnerability they recently discovered in the Facebook Messenger application for Windows. The vulnerability, which resides in Messenger version 460.16, could...

A Bug in Facebook Messenger for Windows Could've Helped Malware Gain Persistence

Cybersecurity researchers at Reason Labs, the threat research arm of security solutions provider Reason Labs, today disclosed details of a vulnerability they recently discovered in the Facebook Messenger application for Windows. The vulnerability, which resides in Messenger version 460.16, could...

How Facebook Helped FBI Capture a Notorious Child Abuser

By Waqas Facebook did something unexpcted. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Facebook Helped FBI Capture a Notorious Child Abuser...

Facebook 'Manage Activity' Is a Long Overdue Privacy Feature

The new Manage Activity feature will let you archive and bulk delete posts for the first time...

Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy

Note that this is "announced," so we don't know when it's actually going to be implemented. Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert you when messages appear to come from financial scammers or potential child abusers, displaying warnings in the Messenger app that provid...

FinalRecon - The Last Web Recon Tool You'll Need

FinalRecon is a fast and simple python script for web reconnaissance. It follows a modular structure so in future new modules can be added with ease. Featured NullByte https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/conduct-recon-web-target-with-python-tools-0198114/...

Exclusive: Hacker selling 500 million Facebook user data from 82 countries

By Waqas The entire database is being sold for $30,000 on a hacker forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Exclusive: Hacker selling 500 million Facebook user data from 82 countries...

Personal data of 12 million Facebook users exposed online

By Sudais Asif Another day, another Facebook breach! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Personal data of 12 million Facebook users exposed online...

NSO Group Impersonates Facebook Security Team to Spread Spyware — Report

According to an investigative journalist team, the Israeli authors of the infamous Pegasus mobile spyware, NSO Group, have been using a spoofed Facebook login page, crafted to look like an internal Facebook security team portal, to lure victims in. The news comes as Facebook alleges that NSO Grou...

Facebook Messenger Adds Safety Alerts—Even in Encrypted Chats

By using metadata instead of content to spot suspicious behavior, the social network can keep privacy intact...

WolfRAT Android Malware Targets WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger

UPDATE A new Android malware family has been discovered, which targets popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to gather intelligence on Android victims. The malware, dubbed WolfRAT, is under active development, and was recently identified in campaigns targeting Thai users...

Facebook Proxygen Resource Management Error Vulnerability

Facebook Proxygen is a set of open source C++ HTTP class libraries from the U.S. company Facebook . A resource management error vulnerability exists in the lifecycle management of the request adaptor in versions prior to Facebook Proxygen v2020.05.18.00. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability...

Mandrake Android malware stealing Facebook, crypto data since 2016

By Sudais Asif Every day we see unique instances of malware come up but Mandrake... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mandrake Android malware stealing Facebook, crypto data since 2016...

Login with Facebook Bug Earns $20K Bounty

Facebook has awarded a security researcher $20,000 for discovering a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Facebook Login SDK, which is used by developers to add a “Continue with Facebook” button to a page as an authentication method. Exploitation could allow threat actors to hijack...

How to Set Your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to Control Who Sees What

Pick who sees your tweets, posts, and stories—and choose what you want to see, too...

How a Facebook Bug Took Down Spotify, TikTok, and Other Major iOS Apps

Thank a tiny change to a software development kit for widespread crashes Wednesday, including the Spotify and TikTok apps...

Nexphisher - Advanced Phishing Tool For Linux & Termux

NexPhisher is an automated Phishing tool made for Termux & Linux .The phishing Pages are Taken from Zphisher under GNU General Public License v3.0 . This tool has 37 Phishing Page Templates of 30 Websites.There are 5 Port Forwarding Options including Localhost !! If you copy then give me the...