When data privacy and protection are rights, don’t get it wrong

Twenty-one years ago, Latanya Sweeney showed that it’s possible to uniquely identify 87% of Americans with just three pieces of personal data: gender, ZIP code and full date of birth. Long before anyone had heard the words ‘data lake’, ‘cloud storage’ or ‘big data’, nevermind ‘social media’, it w...

WhatsApp hit with €225 million fine for GDPR violations

WhatsApp was hit with a €225 million fine for violating the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, the European Union’s sweeping data protection law that has been in effect for more than three years. The fine represents the highest ever penalty levied by the Irish Data Protection Commission,...

LockBit Jumps Its Own Countdown, Publishes Bangkok Air Files

After Bangkok Airways disclosed that it had been clobbered by a cyberattack last week, the LockBit 2.0 ransomware gang tossed its own countdown clock in the trash and went ahead and published what it claims are the airline’s encrypted files on its leak site. BleepingComputer posted an image shown...

LockBit Gang to Publish 103GB of Bangkok Airways Customer Data

The LockBit ransomware gang has apparently struck again, having purportedly stolen 103GB worth of files from Bangkok Airways and promising to release them tomorrow, on Tuesday. A Dark Web intelligence firm calling itself DarkTracer apparently a separate intel firm than the better-known DarkTrace...

Black Hat 2021: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Day 2 Takeaways

Here we are again, back for another day of Rapid7 expert debriefings and analysis for some of the most talked-about Black Hat sessions of this year. So without further delay, let’s take it away! Get more DEF CON 2021 insights from our Research team on Tuesday, August 10 Sign up for our What...

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in devcode-it/openstamanager

✍️ Description Attacker able to create any Personal Data if users visit attacker site. 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept 1.Open the PoC.html In Firefox or safari. 2.now you can check that Personal data with Denomination aaa have been created. // PoC.html history.pushState'', '', '/' input type="hidden" name="e...

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in devcode-it/openstamanager

✍️ Description Attacker able to delete any Personal Data if users visit attacker site. 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept 1.Open the PoC.html In Firefox or safari. 2.now you can check that Personal data with idrecord value equal to 2 have been deleted. // PoC.html history.pushState'', '', '/'...

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in devcode-it/openstamanager

✍️ Description Attacker able to disable any Personal Data module if users visit attacker site. 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept 1.Open the PoC.html In Firefox or safari. 2.now you can check that Personal data module with id value equal to 1 have been disabled. // PoC.html history.pushState'', '', '/'...

Guess Fashion Deals With Data Loss, Post-Ransomware

A February ransomware attack on fashion label Guess linked to Colonial Pipeline attackers DarkSide is still causing damage. Guess has started sending letters to 1,300 employees and contractors who had their personal and banking data exposed during the breach. The letter, published by...

How can you protect your personal, sensitive data online?

By Owais Sultan If you are reading this, thinking about your personal data or even secrets, you may have bigger problems than you can solve. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How can you protect your personal, sensitive data online?...

Stripe: Email change or personal data change on the account.

@dk82hg found the email change flow on indiehackers.com was vulnerable to an insecure direct object reference IDOR which allowed an attacker to change the email associated with a user account to one they owned and ultimately take over a victim’s account in certain situations. A fix was shipped to...

Acronis: CSS Injection via Client Side Path Traversal + Open Redirect leads to personal data exfiltration on Acronis Cloud

Summary Hi team, I hope everything goes well. I have found a CSS Injection in Acronis Cloud Management Consolehttps://mc-beta-cloud.acronis.com/mc via the colorscheme GET parameter. Description: The flow work as I will comment below. If we go to the URL...

Oh FCUK! Fashion Label, Medical Diagnostics Firm Latest REvil Victims

U.K.-based fashion brand French Connection, which advertises under the acronym “FCUK,” confirmed that it has been compromised by ransomware group REvil. Just hours later, Brazilian medical diagnostics firm Grupo Fleury announced it had the same misfortune. The twin attacks reveal shifting...

IKEA Fined $1.2M for Elaborate ‘Spying System’

IKEA’s French subsidiary was just hit with a $1.2 million fine after it was found guilty of a creepy systematic snooping scheme targeting customers, employees and even prospective hires. Prosecutors said in all, the company illegally surveilled about 400 people in total, according to the BBC. IKE...

Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data

A billion data points, including the usernames and mobile phone numbers of customers have been siphoned off Alibaba websites by a web crawler. The information has reached us about a week after a court ruling in the case. The court ruling A central Chinese court has ruled that an employee of a...

Hackers Can Exploit Samsung Pre-Installed Apps to Spy On Users

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in Samsung's pre-installed Android apps, which, if successfully exploited, could have allowed adversaries access to personal data without users' consent and take control of the devices. "The impact of these bugs could have allowed an attacker t...

TikTok Quietly Updated Its Privacy Policy to Collect Users' Biometric Data

Popular short-form video-sharing service TikTok quietly revised its privacy policy in the U.S., allowing it to automatically collect biometric information such as faceprints and voiceprints from the content its users post on the platform. The policy change, first spotted by TechCrunch, went into...

How user experience is shaping verifiable credentials and identity

Since 2017, Microsoft has been working with the identity community on two groundbreaking technologies designed from the ground up to make digital privacy convenient and practical: decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials. We believe verifiable credentials will revolutionize the way we...

A week in security (May 17 – May 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at a banking trojan full of nasty tricks, explained some tips and pointers for using VirusTotal, and dug into how an authentication vulnerability was patched by Pega Infinity. We also explored how a Royal Mail phish deploys evasion tricks to avoid analysi...

How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap

One of the oldest scams around -- the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data -- is on the rise, the FBI warns. Heres the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job...