A week in security (February 19 – February 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we gave readers a primer on encryption, took a stab at that Deepfakes tool Internet users seem to be interested in, and started a new series that talks about GDPR. We also looked at a drive-by download campaign that starts in booby-trapped Chinese websites that dro...

Detecting Adblocker Blockers

Interesting research on the prevalence of adblock blockers: "Measuring and Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis": Abstract: Millions of people use adblockers to remove intrusive and malicious ads as well as protect themselves against tracking and pervasive surveillance...

Brave Browser: Fast AdBlocker - Dangerous filesystem permissions, Exported ContentProvider, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Brave Browser: Fast AdBlocker published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Fedora 25 : 1:epiphany (2017-6792542f47)

Update to 3.22.6 : - Fix minor memory leak 682723 - Fix serious password extraction sweep attack on password manager 752738 - Fix adblocker blocking too much stuff, breaking Twitter 777714 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora...

CVE-2015-2078

The SDK for Komodia Redirector with SSL Digestor, as used in Lavasoft Ad-Aware Web Companion 1.1.885.1766 and Ad-Aware AdBlocker alpha 1.3.69.1, Qustodio for Windows, Atom Security, Inc. StaffCop 5.8, and other products, does not properly verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows...

KLA10461 Security bypass vulnerability in multiple products

Using of the same certificate was found in multiple products. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users bypass security restrictions. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a man-in-the-middle attack. Original advisories - Related products VisualDiscovery CVE list CVE-2015-2077...