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A week in security (January 21 – 27)
Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at Modlishka, the latest hurdle in two-factor authentication 2FA, the potential for abuse of push notifications, a malware-phishing combo by the name of CryTekk ransomware, and why we detect PUPs, but enforce the power of users' choice. We...
Urban Dictionary: Users able to set video url for unpublished words and able to see the name of unpublished words
Summary Users will be able to set youtube video URL to unpublished words and will be able to see names of an unpublished word. Description Once a user publishes a word and later unpublish it, others user still would be able to set the youtube video URL for it and will be able to see the name of t...
Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS
Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out...
Crashcast-Exploit - This Tool Allows You Mass Play Any YouTube Video With Chromecasts Obtained From Shodan.io
This tool allows you to mass play any YouTube video with Chromecasts obtained from Shodan.io Author: @037 Prerequisites The only thing you need installed is Python 3.x sudo apt-get install python3 You also require to have cURL installed sudo apt-get install curl You also require Shodan python...
Hackers Leak Personal Data from Hundreds of German Politicians On Twitter
Germany has been hit with the biggest hack in its history. A group of unknown hackers has leaked highly-sensitive personal data from more than 100 German politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brandenburg's prime minister Dietmar Woidke, along with some German artists, journalist...
youtube-letoltes.eu XSS vulnerability
Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-712546 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| youtube-letoltes.eu Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...
WSJ Webpage Defaced to Support PewDiePie
UPDATE A webpage owned by the Wall Street Journal was hacked on Monday, in an attempt to promote YouTube celebrity “PewDiePie.” The incident comes on the heels of a separate hack relating to the Swedish YouTuber, comedian and video game commentator, whose given name is Felix Kjellberg. Over the...
A week in security (December 10 – 16)
Last week on Labs, we took a look at some new Mac malware, a collection of various scraped data dumps, the protection of power grids, and how bad actors are using SMB vulnerabilities. Other cybersecurity news Millions affected by Facebook photo API bug: An issue granted third-party apps more acce...
Denial of Service in Online Media Asset Handling
Online Media Asset Handling .youtube and .vimeo files in the TYPO3 backend is vulnerable to denial of service. Putting large files with according file extensions results in high consumption of system resources. This can lead to exceeding limits of the current PHP process which results in a...
Cross-Site Scripting in Online Media Asset Rendering
Failing to properly encode user input, online media asset rendering .youtube and .vimeo files is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. A valid backend user account or write access on the server system e.g. SFTP is needed in order to exploit this vulnerability...
Someone hacked 50,000 printers to promote PewDiePie YouTube channel
By Waqas Nearly 50,000 printers across the globe were hacked by a hacker using the alias TheHackerGiraffe for the sake of promoting PewDiePie’s YouTube channel and encouraging users to subscribe to the channel. The hacker claims that the primary motive behind this hijacking spree is to spread...
Someone Hacked 50,000 Printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel
This may sound crazy, but it's true! The war for "most-subscribed Youtube channel" crown between T-Series and PewDiePie just took an interesting turn after a hacker yesterday hijacked more than 50,000 internet-connected printers worldwide to print out flyers asking everyone to subscribe to...
Why a Hacker Exploited Printers to Make PewDiePie Propaganda
An anonymous hacker has claimed credit for the prank, which is part of an ongoing YouTube subscriber feud...
WordPress 4.2.x < 4.2.13 Multiple Vulnerabilities
According to its self-reported version number, the detected WordPress application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the wpplaylistshortcode function within the /wp-includes/media.php script due to a failure to validate input passed via...
WordPress 4.4.x < 4.4.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities
According to its self-reported version number, the detected WordPress application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the wpplaylistshortcode function within the /wp-includes/media.php script due to a failure to validate input passed via...
WordPress 3.7.x < 3.7.19 Multiple Vulnerabilities
According to its self-reported version number, the detected WordPress application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the wpplaylistshortcode function within the /wp-includes/media.php script due to a failure to validate input passed via...
WordPress 4.1.x < 4.1.16 Multiple Vulnerabilities
According to its self-reported version number, the detected WordPress application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the wpplaylistshortcode function within the /wp-includes/media.php script due to a failure to validate input passed via...
PoC Attack Leverages Microsoft Office and YouTube to Deliver Malware
A stealthy malware delivery tactic has been uncovered in the way videos are embedded into Microsoft Word Documents, according to researchers. It allows JavaScript code-execution when a user clicks on a weaponized YouTube video thumbnail within a Word document – with no alert message displayed by...
Detecting Fake Videos
This story nicely illustrates the arms race between technologies to create fake videos and technologies to detect fake videos: These fakes, while convincing if you watch a few seconds on a phone screen, aren't perfect yet. They contain tells, like creepily ever-open eyes, from flaws in their...