A week in security (July 22 – 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered an extensive analysis into the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 investigation, updated users on the newest feature set to AdwCleaner 7.4.0 it now detects pre-installed software, and provided a deep dive into Phobos ransomware. We also broke down the latest...

Viral FaceApp Unnecessarily Requests Access to Users' Facebook Friends List

FaceApp—the AI-powered photo-morphing app that recently gone viral for its age filter but hit the headlines for its controversial privacy policy—has been found collecting the list of your Facebook friends for no reason. The Russian-made FaceApp has been around since the spring of 2017 but taken...

LifeOmic: Improper signup & sign-in validation

Original Report from @zsbappa Summary: From the signup option I can able to signup differently using google and facebook account where i am using same email address. Description: I have account in facebook and gmailGoogle both. Both account i opened using same email account.When i goes to signup...

This Week in Security News: Unpatched Systems and Lateral Phishing

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 an attack against Elasticsearch that delivers backdoors as its payload. Additionally, read how cybercriminals are turning to...

Rockstar Games: Image Injection on `/bully/anniversaryedition` may lead to FB's OAuth Token Theft.

In this report, the researcher identified a chain of attacks that could result in sensitive token leakage, such as Oauth tokens. The attack would begin with an image injection exploit on the page at https://www.rockstargames.com/bully/anniversaryedition. That exploit was the focus of this...

Facebook's Ex-Security Chief Details His 'Observatory' for Internet Abuse

Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data...

Facebook Proxygen Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Facebook Proxygen is a set of open source C++ HTTP class libraries from the U.S. company Facebook . A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in configurations in versions prior to Facebook Proxygen 2019.07.22.00. The vulnerability stems from a network system or product performing operations in memo...

FaceApp scares point to larger data collection problems

Last week, if you thumbed your way through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, you likely saw altered photos of your friends with a few extra decades written onto their faces—wrinkles added, skin sagged, hair bereft of color. Has 2019 really been that long? Not really. The photos are the work of...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years

The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years

The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...

Facebook Messenger Customer Chat Plugin - Critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2019-059

The Facebook Messenger Customer Chat Plugin module enables you to add the Facebook Messenger Customer Chat Plugin to your Drupal site. The module doesn't require user permissions on the admin page...

Rockstar Games: Image Injection vulnerability on screenshot-viewer/responsive/image may allow Facebook OAuth token theft.

In this report, the researcher identified a series of vulnerabilities that could be exploited together to exfiltrate sensitive user tokens. In this attack chain, one critical step was an image injection vulnerability in the Screenshot-Viewer function on the main site, at...

Rockstar Games: CSRF Vulnerabiliy on Facebook Linkage Page Allows Full Account takerover of Socialclub Accounts.

In this report, the researcher identified a CSRF vulnerability in the account linking process that could have allowed attackers to link their Facebook account to the victim's Social Club account, giving the attacker access to the victim's Social Club account. This attack would have required a...

HiddenEye - Modern Phishing Tool With Advanced Functionality (Android-Support-Available)

Modern Phishing Tool With Advanced Functionality PHISHING | KEYLOGGER | INFORMATIONCOLLECTOR | ALLINONETOOL | SOCIALENGINEERING DEVELOPERS & CONTRIBUTORS 1. ANONUD4Y https://github.com/An0nUD4Y 2. USAMA ABDUL SATTAR https://github.com/usama7628674 3. sTiKyt https://github.com/sTiKyt 4. UNDEADSEC...

Facebook HHVM Denial of Service Vulnerability

Facebook HHVM aka HipHop Virtual Machine is a virtual machine from Facebook that significantly improves the performance of loading dynamic pages in PHP. A security vulnerability exists in the call to the 'scryptenc' function in Facebook HHVM. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker with...

This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Mobile Malware

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 a mobile malware that infects Android devices by exploiting the vulnerabilities found within the operating system. Also, read...

New Facebook ad reporting tool launches in UK

Last year, well-known consumer advice expert Martin Lewis decided to take Facebook to court for defamation. The cause? Multiple bogus adverts placed on the social network featuring his likeness, appearing via the ad network Outbrain. As a trusted face in consumer causes, scammers bolting Lewis'...

Brute_Force - BruteForce Gmail, Hotmail, Twitter, Facebook & Netflix

Install : pip install proxylist pip install mechanize Usage: BruteForce Gmail Attack python3 BruteForce.py -g [email protected] -l Filelist python3 BruteForce.py -g [email protected] -p PasswordSingle BruteForce Hotmail Attack python3 BruteForce.py -t [email protected] -l Filelist...

Think FaceApp Is Scary? Wait Till You Hear About Facebook

The idea that FaceApp is somehow exceptionally dangerous threatens to obscure the real point: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny...

Facebook WhatsApp Input Verification Error Vulnerability

Facebook WhatsApp is a suite of mobile applications from the American company Facebook that utilize the web to deliver text messages. The application uses the contact information in a smartphone to find contacts using the program to send texts, pictures, and more. An input validation error...