Facebook's NSO Group Lawsuit Over WhatsApp Spying Set to Proceed

Facebook’s lawsuit against NSO Group over alleged spying on WhatsApp users will be allowed to go forward. WhatsApp-owner Facebook is alleging that NSO Group exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deploy its spyware against human rights activists, journalists and political dissidents. A federal...

On the Twitter Hack

Twitter was hacked this week. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. Those are the people trusted to ensure that Twitter functions smoothly. The...

Does TikTok Really Pose a Risk to US National Security?

Concerns about the Chinese government shouldn't be dismissed, experts say. But banning TikTok would be a drastic measure...

chattanooga.gov Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1221825

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

Exclusive: Any Chingari App (Indian TikTok Clone) Account Can Be Hacked Easily

Following vulnerability disclosure in the Mitron app, another viral TikTok clone in India has now been found vulnerable to a critical but easy-to-exploit authentication bypass vulnerability, allowing anyone to hijack any user account and tamper with their information, content, and even upload...

Notorious Hacker 'Fxmsp' Outed After Widespread Access-Dealing

“Fxmsp,” a notorious hacker who made headlines last year for allegedly stealing and selling source code and customer access from McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro, has been outed. He’s a Kazakh national named Andrey Turchin, and according to unsealed court documents, he faces hacking charges datin...

Lazarus hackers use Magecart attack to steal card data from EU, US sites

By Deeba Ahmed Lazarus hackers are believed to be backed by the North Korean government. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lazarus hackers use Magecart attack to steal card data from EU, US sites...

CISA Releases Securing Industrial Control Systems: A Unified Initiative

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released its five-year industrial control systems ICS strategy: Securing Industrial Control Systems: A Unified Initiative. The strategy—developed in collaboration with industry and government partners—lays out CISA's plan to improve,...

S-CMS government website builder system aj***.php suffers from SQL injection vulnerability

S-CMS government station building system is Zibo Shining Network Technology Co., Ltd. developed a special government station building solutions to provide products. S-CMS government website builder system aj.php has a SQL injection vulnerability, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain...

Critical RCE Flaw Affects F5 BIG-IP Application Security Servers

Cybersecurity researchers today issued a security advisory warning enterprises and governments across the globe to immediately patch a highly-critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting F5's BIG-IP networking devices running application security servers. The vulnerability, assigned...

Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Gets 9 Years

A well-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow was sentenced on Friday to nine years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to running a site that sold stolen payment card data, and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among it...

Major Magecart skimming attack hits 8 local US government sites

By Sudais Asif A major Magecart attack has hit the websites of 8 cities across 3 States... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Major Magecart skimming attack hits 8 local US government sites...

Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed By Lawmakers

Lawmakers have proposed legislation that would indefinitely ban the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement nationwide. The new bill comes after months of public concerns surrounding facial recognition’s implications for data privacy, government surveillance and racial bias. The...

WikiLeaks Founder Charged With Conspiring With LulzSec & Anonymous Hackers

The United States government has filed a superseding indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accusing him of collaborating with computer hackers, including those affiliated with the infamous LulzSec and "Anonymous" hacking groups. The new superseding indictment does not contain any...

Fake govt COVID-19 contact tracking app spreads Android ransomware

By Sudais Asif Another day, another fake COVID-19 contact tracing app spreading malware... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake govt COVID-19 contact tracking app spreads Android ransomware...

Report: ‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Sensitive Data From Police Departments

Thousands of sensitive police department files – including police and FBI reports – were published on Friday by DDoSecrets Distributed Denial of Secrets, a self-proclaimed “transparency collective” that publishes covert data. The almost 270 gigabytes of data, dubbed “BlueLeaks,” is reportedly fro...

Over 100 New Chrome Browser Extensions Caught Spying On Users

Google recently removed 106 more extensions from its Chrome Web Store after they were found illegally collecting sensitive user data as part of a "massive global surveillance campaign" targeting oil and gas, finance, and healthcare sectors. Awake Security, which disclosed the findings late last...

ACSC Releases Advisory on Cyber Campaign using Copy-Paste Compromises

The Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC has released an advisory regarding an ongoing cyber campaign involving “copy-paste compromises” targeting Australian government and commercial networks. According to the advisory, a sophisticated malicious cyber actor is carrying out the campaign using...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Smart Government OA Collaboration Platform

Intelligent government OA collaborative office platform is a set of independent research and development of collaborative office software, is specifically tailored for the government office of the new office software system. There is a SQL injection vulnerability in Smart Government OA...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Smart Government OA Collaboration Platforms

Intelligent government OA collaborative office platform is a set of independent research and development of collaborative office software, is specifically tailored for the government office of the new office software system. Unauthorized access vulnerability exists in Smart Government OA...