New Settings Let Hackers Easily Pentest Facebook, Instagram Mobile Apps

Facebook has introduced a new feature in its platform that has been designed to make it easier for bug bounty hunters to find security flaws in Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Android applications. Since almost all Facebook-owned apps by default use security mechanisms such as Certificate...

CVE-2019-10044

Telegram Desktop before 1.5.12 on Windows, and the Telegram applications for Android, iOS, and Linux, is vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if for example Latin and Cyrillic characters...

Google Play Touts Certs in Quest For Enterprise Security

Google is now touting three new security certifications for Managed Google Play, which the company hopes will serve as a badge of security honor for companies thinking about using its enterprise-focused app marketplace. The move comes as Google continues to try to amp up efforts around the securi...

Google Will Prompt European Android Users to Select Preferred Default Browser

Google announced some major changes for its Android mobile operating system in October after the European Commission hit the company with a record $5 billion antitrust fine for pre-installing its own apps and services on third-party Android phones. The European Commission accused Google of forcin...

More than Half of Android apps ask for dangerous permissions. Is yours among?

By John Mason It wasn’t very long ago that I revealed that most free VPN services are provided as a front for the big corporations running them to collect user that. Spurred by the findings of that study, I decided to dig deeper to see how much of a threat, especially when it comes to user data,...

CVE-2019-3777 Apps Manager unverified SSL certs in Cloud Controller proxy

Pivotal Application Service PAS, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.12, 2.3.x prior to 2.3.7 and 2.4.x prior to 2.4.3, contain apps manager that uses a cloud controller proxy that fails to verify SSL certs. A remote unauthenticated attacker that could hijack the Cloud Controller's DNS record could...

CVE-2019-3777

Pivotal Application Service PAS, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.12, 2.3.x prior to 2.3.7 and 2.4.x prior to 2.4.3, contain apps manager that uses a cloud controller proxy that fails to verify SSL certs. A remote unauthenticated attacker that could hijack the Cloud Controller's DNS record could...

UserLAnd - The Easiest Way To Run A Linux Distribution or Application on Android

The easiest way to run a Linux distribution or application on Android. Features: Run full linux distros or specific applications on top of Android. Install and uninstall like a regular app. No root required. Start using UserLAnd There are two ways to use UserLAnd: single-click apps and user-defin...

FTP Server 1.32 - Denial of Service

FTP Server 1.32 - Denial of Service !/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Exploit Title: FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Date: 2019-02-26 Exploit Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar Vendor: The Olive Tree...

FTP Server 1.32 Denial Of Service

!/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Author: Marcelo VA!zquez aka s4vitar FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Exploit Title: FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Date: 2019-02-26 Exploit Author: Marcelo VA!zquez aka s4vitar Vendor: The Olive Tree Software Link:...

FTP Server 1.32 - Denial of Service Exploit

!/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Exploit Title: FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Date: 2019-02-26 Exploit Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar Vendor: The Olive Tree Software Link:...

FTP Server 1.32 - Denial of Service

!/usr/bin/env python coding: utf-8 Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Exploit Title: FTP Server 1.32 Remote Denial of Service DoS Date: 2019-02-26 Exploit Author: Marcelo Vázquez aka s4vitar Vendor: The Olive Tree Software Link:...

Cyber Security Week in Review (Feb. 22)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week U.S. officials charged a form...

Rietspoof malware distributes ransomware via messaging apps

By Waqas A malware strain dubbed as Rietspoof has been under the radar of researchers at Avast since last August. Reportedly, researchers suspect that the malware is on the rise and it is being distributed via Skype, Facebook Messenger, and other messaging apps. Researchers maintain that the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: moby-engine-18.06.0-2.ce.git0ffa825.fc29

Docker is an open source project to build, ship and run any application as a lightweight container. Docker containers are both hardware-agnostic and platform-agnostic. This me ans they can run anywhere, from your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance and everything in between - and they don'...

A week in security (February 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we discussed the return of the Sextortion Bitcoin scams, we gave you an early overview of the exploit kits in the winter of 2019, we talked about the destruction of VFEmail service, for consumers we discussed whether you should remove yourself from social media, for...

Data Breach Bonanza: Dating Apps, Equifax, Mass Credential Dumps

In a week full of cyber-incidents and marked by the Valentine’s Day holiday, data breach news was surging. Equifax may have been hacked by spies, two huge credential spills on the Dark Web did their part to endanger people online and several companies admitted to data exposures, data breaches and...

Hacks, Nudes, and Breaches: It's Been a Rough Month for Dating Apps

Trouble at OKCupid, Coffee Meets Bagel, and Jack'd have made February a bad stretch for romantics online...

Eight Cryptojacking Apps Booted From Microsoft Store

Microsoft booted eight malicious apps from its official desktop and mobile app store after researchers found the programs surreptitiously mined for Monero cryptocurrency. Researchers who discovered the apps said that an unspecified, but significant number, of users may have downloaded the rogue...

Google Play Cracks Down on Malicious Apps

Google Play is ramping up its offensive against malicious apps, which have continued to plague the official app store for Android devices over the years. In a Wednesday post, Andrew Ahn, product manager at Google Play, said that the number of app submissions that were rejected on the app...