A week in security (March 1 – 7)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Eva Galperin who talked to us about defending online anonymity and speech. We wrote about how Ryuk ransomware has developed a worm-like capability, how Exchange servers are attacked by Hafnium zero-days, 21 million free VPN users’ data was...

OESA-2021-1076 wireshark security update

Wireshark is an open source tool for profiling network traffic and analyzing packets. Such a tool is often referred to as a network analyzer, network protocol analyzer or sniffer. Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, can be used to examine the details of traffic at a variety of levels ranging...

Command Injection in facebook/create-react-app

description react-dev-utils includes some utilities used by Create React App. The function getProcessForPort in react-dev-utils is vulnerable to command injection. PoC Create a .js file with the content below and run it, then the file pzhou@shu can be illegally created. var getProcessForPort =...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: critical information disclosure

Description: hey all , I have found critical information through this endpoint /██████; this endpoint contains all env vars used in a www.██████ such as server credentials, db ,mail , twitter clientid and clientsecret , facebook clientid and clientsecret, etc... Impact full access control on ever...

Damn-Vulnerable-GraphQL-Application - Damn Vulnerable GraphQL Application Is An Intentionally Vulnerable Implementation Of Facebook's GraphQL Technology, To Learn And Practice GraphQL Security

Damn Vulnerable GraphQL Application is an intentionally vulnerable implementation of Facebook's GraphQL technology, to learn and practice GraphQL Security. About DVGA Damn Vulnerable GraphQL is a deliberately weak and insecure implementation of GraphQL that provides a safe environment to attack a...

A Billion-Dollar Dark Web Crime Lord Calls It Quits

The “big hack” redux, riot planning on Facebook, and more of the week’s top security news...

Covid-19 Vaccine Scams Spread Under Facebook's Watch

Don’t use an iTunes gift card to purchase doses of the vaccine online...

New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately!

Google has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome web browser for desktop that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. The company released 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with a fix for a heap buffer overflow flaw CVE-2021-21148 in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine...

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. The coordinated action seized hundreds of accounts the companies say have played a major role in facilitating the trade and often lucrati...

CVE-2020-1896

A stack overflow vulnerability in Facebook Hermes 'builtin apply' prior to commit 86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2 https://github.com/facebook/hermes/commit/86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2 allows attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript. Note that th...

CVE-2020-1896

A stack overflow vulnerability in Facebook Hermes 'builtin apply' prior to commit 86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2 https://github.com/facebook/hermes/commit/86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2 allows attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript. Note that th...

Stack overflow

A stack overflow vulnerability in Facebook Hermes 'builtin apply' prior to commit 86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2 https://github.com/facebook/hermes/commit/86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2 allows attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript. Note that th...

CVE-2020-1896

A stack overflow vulnerability in Facebook Hermes 'builtin apply' prior to commit 86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2 https://github.com/facebook/hermes/commit/86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2 allows attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript. Note that th...

CVE-2020-1896

Facebook Hermes stack overflow in the builtin apply path (before commit 86543ac47e59c522976b5632b8bf9a2a4583c7d2) could allow arbitrary code execution via crafted JavaScript. The vulnerability is exploitable only when the host application evaluates untrusted JavaScript, so most React Native apps ...

Facebook Hermes Buffer Error Vulnerability

Facebook Hermes is a JavaScript engine from Facebook Inc. in the United States. The engine is targeted at React Native apps, going to improve the performance of mobile client application apps, but not for server-side infrastructures such as browsers & Node.js. Facebook Hermes suffers from a buffe...

Facebook Ad Services Let Anyone Target US Military Personnel

Researchers warn that an advertising platform with categories like “Army” and “United States Air Force Security Forces” could be abused...

Google Research Pinpoints Security Soft Spot in Multiple Chat Platforms

Google Project Zero researcher Natalie Silvanovich outlined what she believes is a common theme when it comes to serious vulnerabilities impacting leading chat platforms. The research, published Tuesday, identifies a common denominator within chat platforms, called “calling state machine”, which...

WhatsApp Delays Controversial 'Data-Sharing' Privacy Policy Update By 3 Months

WhatsApp said on Friday that it wouldn't enforce its recently announced controversial data sharing policy update until May 15. Originally set to go into effect next month on February 8, the three-month delay comes following "a lot of misinformation" about a revision to its privacy policy that...

WhatsApp Delays Controversial 'Data-Sharing' Privacy Policy Update By 3 Months

WhatsApp said on Friday that it wouldn't enforce its recently announced controversial data sharing policy update until May 15. Originally set to go into effect next month on February 8, the three-month delay comes following "a lot of misinformation" about a revision to its privacy policy that...

Facebook sues developer of data scraping extensions for Chrome

By Sudais Asif The developer is a Portuguese company that Facebook claims developed malicious Chrome extensions allowing data scraping. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook sues developer of data scraping extensions for Chrome...