Instagram Rolls Out dedicated Page To Help Users Regain Hacked Accounts

By Habiba Rashid Instagram has launched new account support for users who may have lost access to their accounts. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Instagram Rolls Out dedicated Page To Help Users Regain Hacked Accounts...

Irish Regulator Fines Facebook $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users' Data

Ireland's Data Protection Commission DPC has levied fines of €265 million $277 million against Meta Platforms for failing to safeguard the personal data of more than half a billion users of its Facebook service, ramping up privacy enforcement against U.S. tech firms. The fines follow an inquiry...

Meta Takes Down Fake Facebook and Instagram Accounts Linked to Pro-U.S. Influence Operation

Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it took down a network of accounts and pages across Facebook and Instagram that were operated by people associated with the U.S. military to spread narratives that depicted the country in a favorable light in the Middle East and Central Asia. The network, which...

Child Predators Mine Twitch to Prey on Kids

Plus: A leaked trove illuminates Russia’s internet regulator, a report finds Facebook and Instagram violated Palestinian rights, and more...

Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown

Amid protests against the killing of Mahsa Amini, authorities have cut off mobile internet, WhatsApp, and Instagram. The death toll continues to rise...

US Border Agents May Have a Copy of Your Text Messages

Plus: An AI artist exposes surveillance of Instagram users, the US charges Iranians over a ransomware campaign, and more...

A week in security (September 5 – 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Phishers use verified status as bait for Instagram users Microsoft will disable Basic authentication for Exchange Online in less than a month Zero-day puts a dent in Chrome's mojo Update now! QNAP warns users DeadBolt is exploiting Photo Station vulnerability Don't...

Instagram receives record fine of $400M for abuse of children's data

Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner DPC, the lead regulator in Europe for Meta and other tech giants, has slapped Instagram with a fine of €405M--roughly equivalent to $402M--following an investigation on how the company handled children's data. In the investigation that started in 2020, the D...

Phishers use verified status as bait for Instagram users

Another Instagram phish is doing the rounds, and will appeal to a wide variety of platform users. Bleeping Computer reports that verified status is once again being dangled as bait. The "importance" of being verified Being verified gives the impression of status, or importance, on social media...

Spying on the spies. See what JavaScript commands get injected by in-app browsers

Developer and privacy expert Felix Krause aka KrauseFx announced this week that he had introduced a simple tool to list the JavaScript commands executed by iOS apps when they deployed an in-app web browser to render webpages. He already shared some eye-opening results on his Twitter feed. By...

Facebook Testing Default End-to-End Encryption and Encrypted Backups in Messenger

Social media company Meta said it will begin testing end-to-end encryption E2EE on its Messenger platform this week for select users as the default option, as the company continues to slowly add security layers to its various chat services. "If you're in the test group, some of your most frequent...

Wordfence Intelligence Launching at Black Hat 2022 in Las Vegas Next Week

Wordfence protects over 4 million websites around the world on 12,000 unique networks, and we block over 1.8 billion attacks targeting those websites every month. For years we have had a relationship with our customers that is a virtuous cycle: We receive attack reports from our customers at a ra...

Social Slider Feed < 2.0.5 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS via Feeds

The plugin does not have authorisation and CSRF check in place when adding and editing a Feed, and does not sanitise as well as escape user input. As a result, users with a role as low as subscriber could add arbitrary feeds, with Stored Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them. As any authenticated...

Feed Them Social < 3.0.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Both can be used against authenticated and unauthenticated users https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=ftsrefreshtokenajax&accesstoken=...

Ukrainian Radio Stations Hacked to Broadcast Fake News About Zelenskyy's Health

Ukrainian radio operator TAVR Media on Thursday became the latest victim of a cyberattack, resulting in the broadcast of a fake message that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was seriously ill. "Cybercriminals spread information that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is allegedly in...

Instagram Slow to Tackle Bots Targeting Iranian Women’s Groups

Despite alerting Meta months ago, feminist groups say tens of thousands of fake accounts continue to bombard them on the platform...

Europe threatens to ban Facebook over data transfers to the US

If regulators have their way, data transfers from Facebook and Instagram between Europe and the United States could stop this summer. WhatsApp, another Meta service, will not be affected by the decision as it has a different data controller within Meta. This could force Meta, Facebooks parent...

How to Avoid the Worst Instagram Scams

Fake sellers. Competitions. Crypto cons. There are plenty of grifts on the platform, but you don’t have to get sucked in...

A week in security (June 27 – July 3)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Ransomware review: June 2022 AstraLocker 2.0 ransomware isn’t going to give you your files back YTStealer targets YouTube content creators ZuoRAT is a sophisticated malware that mainly targets SOHO routers Amazon Photos vulnerability could have given attackers acce...

Instagram introduces new ways for users to verify their age

If Instagram suspects you are fibbing about your age, youll currently see the following message: “You must be at least 13 years old to have an Instagram account. We disabled your account because you are not old enough yet. If you believe we made a mistake, please verify your age by submitting a...