CVE-2019-3553

C++ Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Faceboo...

CVE-2019-3553

C++ Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Faceboo...

Design/Logic Flaw

C++ Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Faceboo...

Design/Logic Flaw

Java Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Facebo...

CVE-2019-3553

The CVE-2019-3553 issue affects C++ Facebook Thrift servers security handling where messages declaring container sizes larger than the payload bypass error checks, enabling a malicious client to trigger large memory allocations and potentially cause a denial of service. The vulnerability is assoc...

CVE-2019-3553

C++ Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Faceboo...

CVE-2019-3553

C++ Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Faceboo...

CVE-2019-11938

CVE-2019-11938 involves Java Facebook Thrift servers that fail to error when receiving messages declaring containers larger than the payload. This allows a malicious client sending a short message to trigger a large memory allocation, potentially causing a denial of service. Affected product is F...

CVE-2019-11938

Java Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Facebo...

CVE-2019-11938

Java Facebook Thrift servers would not error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. As a result, malicious clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Facebo...

FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

FBI officials last week arrested a Russian computer security researcher on suspicion of operating deer.io, a vast marketplace for buying and selling stolen account credentials for thousands of popular online services and stores. Kirill V. Firsov was arrested Mar. 7 after arriving at New York's Jo...

Russia Is Learning How to Bypass Facebook's Disinfo Defenses

Social media platforms have stepped up the fight against Russia's Internet Research Agency—but the IRA is evolving too...

Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete

Privacy International has the details: Key facts: Despite Facebook claim, "Download Your Information" doesn't provide users with a list of all advertisers who uploaded a list with their personal data. As a user this means you can't exercise your rights under GDPR because you don't know which...

Hamas Ensnares Israeli Soldiers with Pretty 'Ladies'

Hamas has been caught taking a classic “catfish” approach, to tempt Israeli soldiers into installing spyware on their phones. Members posed as teen girls who are looking for quality chat time. This is the third time that the Palestinian group has used the tactic – but this time it upped its...

Rockstar Games: Open redirect in https://www.rockstargames.com/GTAOnline/restricted-content/agegate/form may lead to Facebook OAuth token theft

In this report, the researcher identified an Open Redirect vulnerability in the age-gate code on the GTA Online sub-site. This vulnerability could also potentially have caused sensitive tokens to leak via the Referer header if it were exploited under specific circumstances. The Open Redirect was...

A week in security (February 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at Washington state’s latest efforts in providing better data privacy rights for their residents, and we dove into some of the many questions regarding fintech: What is it? How secure is it? And what are some of the problems in the space? We also detailed...

Facebook's Bug Bounty Caught a Data-Stealing Spree

A few months ago, the company disclosed that apps were siphoning data from up to 9.5 million of its users. It only found out thanks to a bug bounty submission...

WhatsApp Bug Allows Malicious Code-Injection, One-Click RCE

Security researchers have identified a JavaScript vulnerability in the WhatsApp desktop platform that could allow cybercriminals to spread malware, phishing or ransomware campaigns through notification messages that appear completely normal to unsuspecting users. And, further investigation shows...

Use Off-Facebook tool to stop Facebook from tracking your activities

By Uzair Amir Facebook has finally rolled out the Off-Facebook Activity tool that it has been working on since August 2019. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Use Off-Facebook tool to stop Facebook from tracking your activities...

This Week in Security News: Over 2,000 WordPress Accounts Compromised and Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Class Action Case Over Facial Recognition

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, over two thousand WordPress sites were compromised using a malicious script that redirects visitors to scam websites. Also, read about how...