A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how: Lock and Code S04E03

In 2020, a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet--her shorts pulled half-way down her thighs--was shared on Facebook, and it was shared by someone whose job it was to look at that photo and, by labeling the objects in it, help train an artificial intelligence system for a vacuum. Bizarre? Yes...

Google Takes Down 50,000 Instances of Pro-Chinese DRAGONBRIDGE Influence Operation

Google on Thursday disclosed it took steps to dismantle over 50,000 instances of activity orchestrated by a pro-Chinese influence operation known as DRAGONBRIDGE in 2022. "Most DRAGONBRIDGE activity is low quality content without a political message, populated across many channels and blogs," the...

A New Malware Called Album Stealer is Targeting Facebook Users

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Album Stealer is a malware that disguises itself as a photo album and drops decoy adult images while performing malicious activity in the background. It uses a side-loading technique to execute malicious...

Facebook Introduces New Features for End-to-End Encrypted Messenger App

Meta Platforms on Monday announced that it has started to expand global testing of end-to-end encryption E2EE in Messenger chats by default. "Over the next few months, more people will continue to see some of their chats gradually being upgraded with an extra layer of protection provided by...

Cross site scripting

An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject arbitrary Javascript in posts, which allow privilege escalation to administrator via XSS. To trigger this...

CVE-2022-47195

An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject arbitrary Javascript in posts, which allow privilege escalation to administrator via XSS. To trigger this...

Ghost Foundation Ghost Post Creation insecure default installation vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2022-1686 Ghost Foundation Ghost Post Creation insecure default installation vulnerability January 19, 2023 CVE Number CVE-2022-47197,CVE-2022-47195,CVE-2022-47194,CVE-2022-47196 SUMMARY An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality o...

Ghost Foundation Ghost 跨站脚本漏洞

Ghost Foundation Ghost is a Ghost open source personal blogging system written in JavaScript. A security vulnerability exists in Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4, which stems from an insecure default vulnerability in the post creation feature of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. The default installation ...

PT-2023-15234 · Ghost Foundation · Ghost

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ghost Foundation Ghost version 5.9.4 Description: An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality, allowing non-administrator users to inject arbitrary Javascript in posts. This enables privilege escalation to...

"Untraceable" surveillance firm sued for scraping Facebook and Instagram data

Days after Meta achieved victory after suing the NSO Group for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges, Meta filed a lawsuit against surveillance company Voyager Labs for violations of its Terms and Policies and California law. According to court documents, Voyager Labs created 38,000 fake accounts ...

PT-2023-7451 · Zyxel · Zyxel Vpn Series +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Zyxel USG FLEX series firmware versions 4.50 through 5.35 Zyxel USG FLEX 50W firmware versions 4.30 through 5.35 Zyxel USG20W-VPN firmware versions 4.30 through 5.35 Zyxel VPN series firmware versions 4.30 through 5.35 Description: A buffer...

Facebook to Pay $725 Million to settle Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Data Leak

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The legal dispute sprang up in response to revelations that the social media giant allowed third-party apps such as those used by...

Sassy Social Share < 3.3.45 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins. Insert the...

Facebook Cracks Down on Spyware Vendors from U.S., China, Russia, Israel, and India

Meta Platforms disclosed that it took down no less than 200 covert influence operations since 2017 spanning roughly 70 countries across 42 languages. The social media conglomerate also took steps to disable accounts and block infrastructure operated by spyware vendors, including in China, Russia,...

Meta’s Tricky Quest to Protect Your Account

How do you keep Facebook easy to use without being trivial to exploit? The company is trying to chart a middle ground...

A week in security (December 5 - 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Security advisories are falling short. Here's why, with Dustin Childs: Lock and Code S03E25 Eufy "no cloud" security cameras streaming data to the cloud Snapchat gives Californians more power over their personal data Update now! Emergency fix for Google Chrome's V8...

"Baby dumped at the gate" post is a Facebook hoax

Every so often, bizarre but oddly believable scams do the rounds on Facebook. And so we have the latest: A tragic tale of a lost baby left outside the gate of someones house. The abandoned baby Facebook hoax springs into action A post made to Facebook December 1st by someone claiming to be in the...

Snapchat gives Californians more power over their personal data

There's a new toggle switch in Snapchat that, once enabled, limits the use of sensitive personal information. TechCrunch reports that the switch is a new privacy feature Snapchat will be rolling out to comply with the California Privacy Rights Act CPRA, also known as Proposition 24. The act, whic...

Schoolyard Bully Malware Stealing Facebook Credentials on Android

By Deeba Ahmed The campaign is ongoing, and so far, Schoolyard Bully Malware has victimized over 300,000 Facebook users on Android devices across 71 countries. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Schoolyard Bully Malware Stealing Facebook Credentials on Android...

CVE-2022-4216

The Chained Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'facebookappid' parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.3.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative...