Don’t Buy Into Facebook’s Ad-Tracking Pressure on iOS 14.5

The company tells Apple users that tracking helps keep those platforms “free of charge,” but opting out now doesn't mean paying up later...

A week in security (April 19 – 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we interviewed Youssef Sammouda, a 21-year-old bug bounty hunter who is focused on finding vulnerabilities on Facebook. We looked into the CodeCov supply-chain attack, the vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN that are being actively exploited by attackers, and the...

A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses

A recently discovered vulnerability discloses user email addresses even when they’re set to private...

Facebook Busts Palestinian Hackers' Operation Spreading Mobile Spyware

Facebook on Wednesday said it took steps to dismantle malicious activities perpetrated by two state-sponsored hacking groups operating out of Palestine that abused its platform to distribute malware. The social media giant attributed the attacks to a network connected to the Preventive Security...

Palestinian Hackers Tricked Victims to Install iOS Spyware

The groups used social engineering techniques on Facebook to direct targets to a wide range of malware, including custom tools...

Facebook ads used in spreading Facebook Messenger phishing scam

By Waqas So far, the phishing scam has targeted users in 80 countries. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook ads used in spreading Facebook Messenger phishing scam...

Interview with a bug bounty hunter: Youssef Sammouda

Behind the scenes there are many people working in cyber-security that make the internet a safer place. Youssef Sammouda is one of these people. He has submitted at least a hundred reports to Facebook which have been resolved, making Facebook a safer platform along the way. Generally speaking,...

CVE-2021-24028

An invalid free in Thrift's table-based serialization can cause the application to crash or potentially result in code execution or other undesirable effects. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2021.02.22.00...

CVE-2021-24028

An invalid free in Thrift's table-based serialization can cause the application to crash or potentially result in code execution or other undesirable effects. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2021.02.22.00...

Design/Logic Flaw

An invalid free in Thrift's table-based serialization can cause the application to crash or potentially result in code execution or other undesirable effects. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2021.02.22.00...

WordPress Plugin Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

WordPress is the Wordpress Foundation's set of blogging platform developed using the PHP language . The platform supports PHP and MySQL servers to set up a personal blog site.WordPress Plugin is a WordPress open source application plugin . Cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in the...

CVE-2021-24028

An invalid free in Thrift's table-based serialization can cause the application to crash or potentially result in code execution or other undesirable effects. This issue affects Facebook Thrift prior to v2021.02.22.00...

CVE-2021-24028

CVE-2021-24028 : A flaw in Facebook Thrift’s table-based serialization causes an invalid free, which can crash the application and potentially allow code execution. Affected software is Facebook Thrift prior to v2021.02.22.00. Remediation: upgrade to v2021.02.22.00 or newer. Note: exploitation de...

WordPress Facebook for WordPress Plugin < 3.0.0 PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

The WordPress plugin Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

WordPress Facebook for WordPress Plugin 3.0.x < 3.0.4 CSRF Vulnerability

The WordPress plugin Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

Facebook Thrift 安全漏洞

Facebook Thrift is a fork of Apache Thrift, a serialization and RPC framework for service communication from Facebook, USA. A security vulnerability exists in versions prior to Facebook Thrift v2021.02.22.00, which stems from an invalid free in Thrift's table-based serialization that could cause ...

CVE-2021-24218

The wpajaxsavefbesettings and wpajaxdeletefbesettings AJAX actions of the Facebook for WordPress plugin before 3.0.4 were vulnerable to CSRF due to a lack of nonce protection. The settings in the saveFbeSettings function had no sanitization allowing for script tags to be saved...

CVE-2021-24217

The runaction function of the Facebook for WordPress plugin before 3.0.0 deserializes user supplied data making it possible for PHP objects to be supplied creating an Object Injection vulnerability. There was also a useable magic method in the plugin that could be used to achieve remote code...

CVE-2021-24218

The wpajaxsavefbesettings and wpajaxdeletefbesettings AJAX actions of the Facebook for WordPress plugin before 3.0.4 were vulnerable to CSRF due to a lack of nonce protection. The settings in the saveFbeSettings function had no sanitization allowing for script tags to be saved...

CVE-2021-24217

The runaction function of the Facebook for WordPress plugin before 3.0.0 deserializes user supplied data making it possible for PHP objects to be supplied creating an Object Injection vulnerability. There was also a useable magic method in the plugin that could be used to achieve remote code...