Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps

Lawmakers want more information about Facebook’s Project Atlas program, which collected data from teens and sidestepped device makers’ privacy policies...

Rocket.Chat: Broken access control on apps

Summary: The user without administrative privileges can upload and install any Application into the rocket.chat As ID of application is controlled in the app.json file which is controlled by uploader user can also activate the app. Releases Affected: 0.73.2 Steps To Reproduce: - User log-in into...

Several Popular Beauty Camera Apps Caught Stealing Users' Photos

Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn't mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, some fake and malicious apps do sneak in and land millions of unaware users on the hunting ground of scammers and hackers. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro uncovered at...

Several Popular Beauty Camera Apps Caught Stealing Users' Photos

Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn't mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, some fake and malicious apps do sneak in and land millions of unaware users on the hunting ground of scammers and hackers. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro uncovered at...

This Week in Security News: Hacker Strategies and Spyware Attacks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how hackers are improving their breach strategies. Also, learn about new spyware attacks via URLs, websites, and mobile apps. Re...

Apple pulls Facebook enterprise certificate

It’s been an astonishing few days for Facebook. They've seen both an app and their enterprise certificate removed and revoked with big consequences. What happened? Apple issue enterprise certificates to organizations with which they can create internal apps. Those apps don’t end up released on th...

Selfie stealing malware found in popular Android beauty camera apps

By Waqas We all want to look perfect in the pictures that we post online and beauty camera apps are our best bet in order to fine-tune our pictures. However, according to the findings of Trend Micro researchers, these kinds of applications are performing more functions than what we think they are...

The vulnerability of the Oracle Application Testing Suite’s Load Testing for Web Apps component within the Oracle Enterprise Manager software platform allows a malicious actor to gain unauthorized access to protected data or cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the Oracle Application Testing Suite’s Load Testing for Web Apps component is related to access control deficiencies. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to gain unauthorized access to protected data or cause service failures using the HTTP protocol...

Apple iOS, tvOS and macOS libxpc Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Apple iOS, tvOS, and macOS are all products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system developed for mobile devices; tvOS is an operating system for smart TVs; and macOS is a specialized operating system developed for Mac computers. libxpc is an open-source implementation of the Apple XPC...

Vulnerabilities of Microsoft Office packages, Office Online Server, Office Web Apps Server, Office Word Viewer, SharePoint Enterprise Server, SharePoint Server, Word, and Office 365, related to memory object processing errors, allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of Microsoft Office packages, Office Online Server, Office Web Apps Server, Office Word Viewer, SharePoint Enterprise Server, SharePoint Server, Word, and Office 365 exists due to errors in memory object handling. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to...

Malicious apps deploy Anubis banking trojan using motion detection

By Waqas Google has left no stone unturned in preventing malware and banking trojan from invading the applications uploaded on its official Play Store. Despite having anti-malware protection, shady applications somehow make it to the platform. In fact, malware developers have become so advanced i...

Google Play Removes Malicious Malware-Ridden Apps

Google Play has removed two malicious apps that were infecting devices with a notorious banking malware bent on scooping up victim’s credentials. The two apps, Currency Converter and BatterySaverMobo, purported to be useful mobile tools that help users calculate currency and optimize mobile batte...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Enterprise Manager Products Suite

Oracle Enterprise Manager Products Suite is a set of Oracle's on-premise management platform. Application Testing Suite is one of the application testing components. A security vulnerability exists in the Load Testing for Web Apps subcomponent of the Application Testing Suite component of Oracle...

Prices for Zero-Day Exploits Are Rising

Companies are willing to pay ever-increasing amounts for good zero-day exploits against hard-to-break computers and applications: On Monday, market-leading exploit broker Zerodium said it would pay up to $2 million for zero-click jailbreaks of Apple's iOS, $1.5 million for one-click iOS jailbreak...

PT-2019-18094 · Es · Es File Explorer File Manager

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ES File Explorer File Manager versions through 4.1.9.7.4 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or execute applications via TCP port 59777 requests on the local Wi-Fi network. This TCP port remains open after t...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

xorg-x11-apps is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists due to multiple integer overflows in X.org libchromeXvMC and libchromeXvMCPro in openChrome 0.3.2 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors relat...

A week in security (January 7 – 13)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at the Ryuk ransomware attack causing trouble over the holidays, as well as a ransom threat for an Irish transportation company. We explored the realm of SSN scams, and looked at what happens when an early warning system is attacked. Other...

Google Play Boots 85 Malicious Adware Apps

At least 85 fake apps harboring adware, disguised as game, TV, and remote control simulator apps have been removed from the Google Play app store. Researchers with Trend Micro said Tuesday that they found an active adware family in fake apps on the Google Play store that had been downloaded a...

A Growing Frontier for Terrorist Groups: Unsuspecting Chat Apps

Opinion: As Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube crack down on extremist propaganda, ISIS recruiters are exploiting lesser-known messenger apps...

Google Removes 85 Adware Apps That Infect 9 Million Android Users

Google has removed 85 apps from its Play Store after finding out that they were pushing aggressive, full-screen adware to Android users. With the rise in the mobile market, Adware has become one of the most prevalent mobile threats in the world. Adware has traditionally been used to aggressively...