TikTok: User Able to Reopen a Ticket by Modify the Request

Improper access control was reported on the TikTok ads portal. This issue has been resolved. We thank @gnux for reporting this vulnerability to our team and confirming the resolution...

TikTok: CSRF for deleting videos

A CSRF Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability was reported on TikTok which could potentially be used by an attacker to delete other users' public videos if the user were to click a malicious link. This issue has since been resolved. We thank @luizviana for reporting this to our team and...

TikTok: CSRF To Add New App In Developer Account And Bypassing Json Format

The researcher found a CSRF issue allowing a malicious user to add arbitrary applications to a developer's account...

TikTok: Bypass "Industry Documents" Validation

The researcher found that the attacker can bypass the review process and mark the document as "approved" when a user adds Industry Documents. The attacker will bypass only the qualification status at frontend, the form status is still under review, and it will be reviewed by an employee...

TikTok: Lack of session expiration after password reset on TikTok Careers Portal

A lack of session expiration following a password reset on the TikTok Careers Portal does not automatically log out a user on another device/browser. We thank @gnux for reporting this to our team and confirming the resolution...

TikTok Global – Trump Demanded Full TikTok Ownership

By Uzair Amir How much do you know about the TikTok ban? Will, the United States take ownership rights? Can a VPN bypass the ban? Find out all about it here! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: TikTok Global – Trump Demanded Full TikTok Ownership...

A Tip From a Kid Helped Uncover a Slew of Scam Apps

After a girl reported a suspicious TikTok profile, researchers detected aggressive adware in apps that had been downloaded 2.4 million times...

UPDATE – TikTok Ban: Security Experts Weigh in on the App's Risks

UPDATE Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat over the weekend have gotten an 11th hour reprieve from a plan to cut off access to them. As a ban on U.S. downloads loomed for Sunday, TikTok owner ByteDance reached an agreement to sell significant ownership stakes to Oracle and Walmart. While the deal is...

TikTok: Cross-Tenant IDOR ( graphql `AddRulesToPixelEvents` query ) allowing to add, update, and delete rules of any Pixel events on the platform

Due to an Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability, an attacker could have potentially added, deleted, or updated rules for other users' pixel events in the TikTok ads portal. We thank @bubbounty for reporting this to our team and confirming the resolution. This report is one of my...

TikTok Fixes Flaws That Opened Android App to Compromise

Researchers have disclosed four high-severity flaws in the Android version of TikTok that could have easily been exploited by a seemingly benign third-party Android app. If successful, an attacker could fully compromise the target’s TikTok account. Public disclosure of the vulnerabilities was...

Spyware Labeled 'TikTok Pro' Exploits Fears of U.S. Ban

Researchers have discovered a new Android spyware campaign pushing a “Pro” version of the TikTok app that is exploiting fears among its young and gullible users that the popular social media app is on the cusp of being banned in the United States. The malware can take over basic device...

TikTok: Cross-Site-Scripting on www.tiktok.com and m.tiktok.com leading to Data Exfiltration

The researcher discovered a URL parameter reflecting its value without being properly sanitized and was able to achieve reflected XSS. In addition, researcher found an endpoint which was vulnerable to CSRF. The endpoint allowed to set a new password on accounts which had used third-party apps to...

TikTok: Bypass SMS verification to delete TikTok account

Improper authorization could potentially allow an attacker to bypass SMS verification and delete a TikTok account. This attack would first require the account to be compromised. A fix has been implemented to resolve this issue. We thank @luizviana for reporting this to our team and confirming the...

Data scraping firm leaks 235m Instagram, TikTok, YouTube user records

By Sudais Asif According to researchers, the trove of data was left for public access without any security authentication. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Data scraping firm leaks 235m Instagram, TikTok, YouTube user records...

The NSA and FBI Expose Fancy Bear's Sneaky Hacking Tool

Plus: TikTok tracking, Russian SIMs, and more of this week's top security news...

TikTok collected MAC addresses for Android phones against Google’s ToS

By Zara Khan TikTok also collected unique identifiers and sent them to Byte Dance, its parent company. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: TikTok collected MAC addresses for Android phones against Googles ToS...

TikTok Surreptitiously Collected Android User Data Using Google-Prohibited Tactic

TikTok has been collecting unique identifiers from millions of Android devices without their users’ knowledge using a tactic previously prohibited by Google because it violated people’s privacy, new research has found. Click to register! The app concealed the practice, which can track users onlin...

A week in security (August 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, on our Lock and Code podcast, we talked about identity and access management technology. We also wrote about business email compromises to score big, discussed how the Data Accountability and Transparency Act of 2020 looks beyond consent, and we analyzed how the...

TikTok: Multiple Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability via the language parameter

A cross site scripting vulnerability was reported across multiple TikTok domains leveraging the language parameter. This issue has been promptly resolved. We thank @luizviana for reporting this to our team and confirming the resolution...

TikTok: Cross Site Scripting using Email parameter in Ads endpoint 1

A cross site scripting vulnerability was found in the ads endpoint using the email parameter. This issue has been resolved. We thank @luizviana for reporting this to our team and confirming the resolution...