U.S. Dept Of Defense: Members Personal Information Leak Due to IDOR

Summary https://██████ allows anyone to sign up and view other members profile. According to wikipedia, ███████ is part of US DoD "████████": ██████ I signed up with a regular account and noticed that by referencing users ████, I can send thousands of "█████████" and also, using another end-point...

Ring Doorbell App for Android Caught Sharing User Data with Facebook, Data-Miners

UPDATE Amazon’s Ring Doorbell app for Android is a nexus for data-harvesting, according to an investigation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF. Privacy advocates allege Ring goes so far as to silently deliver updates on Ring customer usage to Facebook, even if the Ring owner doesn’t have a...

Smart Krampus-3PC Malware Targets iPhone Users Online

A malicious web redirect campaign affecting iPhone users has impacted more than 100 publisher websites, including online newspapers and international weekly news magazines. According to The Media Trust’s Digital Security & Operations DSO team, iPhone users visiting any of the impacted websites we...

SDKs Misused to Scrape Twitter, Facebook Account Info

Twitter and Facebook are warning of software development kits SDKs that could be embedded within a mobile application and used to harvest personal user information. The SDKs, which the tech giants said are maintained by oneAudience and MobiBurn, could be used by mobile app developers to craft...

Unencrypted Mobile Traffic on Tor Network Leaks PII

Unencrypted, sensitive and confidential user data originating from millions of mobile devices is carried on the Tor network every day. Now researchers say they have devised away to scoop up that data and create personal profiles for specific mobile users, that include GPS coordinates, web...

Masad Spyware Uses Telegram Bots for Command-and-Control

A freshly discovered commercial spyware dubbed the “Masad Clipper and Stealer” is using Telegram bots as its command-and-control C2 hub. Masad harvests information from Windows and Android users and also comes with a full cadre of other malicious capabilities, including the ability to steal...

Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month

Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well. Smominru, an infamous...

Over 1,300 Android Apps Caught Collecting Data Even If You Deny Permissions

Smartphones are a goldmine of sensitive data, and modern apps work as diggers that continuously collect every possible information from your devices. The security model of modern mobile operating systems, like Android and iOS, is primarily based on permissions that explicitly define which sensiti...

Post-Data Breach, British Airways Slapped With Record $230M Fine

UPDATE A record $230 million fine has been proposed against British Airways after a 2018 data breach impacted 500,000 of the airline’s customers. If approved, the fee would be the biggest General Data Protection Regulation GDPR fine to be issued to a company so far. On Monday, the Information...

Facebook Collected Contacts from 1.5 Million Email Accounts Without Users' Permission

Not a week goes without a new Facebook blunder. Remember the most recent revelation of Facebook being caught asking users new to the social network platform for their email account passwords to verify their identity? At the time, it was suspected that Facebook might be using access to users' emai...

ICEPick-3PC: A Sophisticated Adware That Collects Data En Masse

A strain of malware that spreads on the web via advertising platforms has mounted a large-scale, mass data harvesting campaign, opening up thousands of Android users to follow-on attacks. Researchers said it’s likely there’s an organized crime ring operating behind the scenes. Named ICEPick‐3PC b...

Facebook Fined $11.3M for Privacy Violations

Facebook faces its second privacy-related fine in Europe, with the most recent action taken by the Italian Competition Authority. On Friday, Facebook was hit with two fines, totaling 10 million Euros about $11.3 million, for violating Italy’s Consumer Code. The Italian Competition Authority ICA...

UK Slaps Facebook with $645K Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal

The UK has fined Facebook $645,000 over Cambridge Analytica’s data harvesting practices, which exploited the data of 87 million users of the social network. That represents a gnat bite for the tech giant, which generated $5.1 billion in net profit in the second quarter of the year. However, the...

Google’s Forced Sign-in to Chrome Raises Privacy Red Flags

An update to Google Chrome’s sign-in mechanism could clear a path to compromising the privacy of users’ browser data, according to a researcher who stumbled across the change. Matthew Green, a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University, noticed his Gmail profile pic strangely and...

Yahoo Persists in Scanning Emails for In-Depth Ad-Targeting

While the rest of the U.S. tech industry is taking steps to assuage consumer concerns over privacy and data-harvesting, Yahoo is selling off the ability to scan more than 200 million Yahoo Mail inboxes for rich user data that might be used for marketing purposes. Verizon’s Oath unit, which owns...

Facebook Software Bug Made Some Private Posts Public: 14 Million Affected

A Facebook software bug in May switched the “suggested audience” for posts to “public” for 14 millions of users. The glitch meant Facebook users who though they were sharing content with just friends or small groups actually made their posts available to the general public. The incident is the...

Tens of Thousands of Malicious Apps Using Facebook APIs

At least 25,936 malicious apps are currently using one of Facebook’s APIs, such as a login API or messaging API. These allow apps to access a range of information from Facebook profiles, like name, location and email address. Trustlook discovered the malicious apps using a formula, which created ...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: SQL injection on █████ due to tech.cfm

Summary: The website appears to be vulnerable to SQL injection due to inducing an sql error using a single ' Description: The following url, https://█████/hro/html/tech.cfm?Sort=Grade&ThisType=2 contains the parameter sort= which is vulnerable to SQLI. We know this due to the error disclosing the...

Tools Used by Lamberts APT Found in Vault 7 Dumps

Links have emerged connecting targeted attacks going back a decade against high-profile government, industrial and financial targets around the world to hacking tools and documents leaked in the Vault 7 dump. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a technical report on the activities of a...

Canon IR-Adv Password Extractor

This module will extract the passwords from address books on various Canon IR-Adv mfp devices. Tested models: iR-ADV C2030, iR-ADV 4045, iR-ADV C5030, iR-ADV C5235, iR-ADV C5240, iR-ADV 6055, iR-ADV C7065 This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...