Mail.ru: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts at https://api.warrobots.com/auth (Pixonic Games)

Password at warrobots.com was not sufficiently protected against bruteforce...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14939

An issue was discovered in savestructinternal.c in FreedroidRPG 1.0rc2. Saved game files are composed of Lua scripts that recover a game's state. A file can be modified to put any Lua code inside, leading to arbitrary code execution while loading...

Rockstar Games: SocialClub Account Take Over Through Import Friends feature

In this report, the researcher identified a vulnerability in a Social Club feature intended to allow users to import their friends list from Facebook and other social media sites. However, if a targeted victim were to visit a crafted site containing a specific malicious script that exploited this...

Gaming Security – Valve and Riot Games

By Uzair Amir While gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry the question is whether gaming giants pay any attention to gaming security? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Gaming Security – Valve and Riot Games...

angrybirdsgames.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1191421

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

FTC Slams Children’s App Developer for COPPA Violations

Children’s app developer HyperBeard has agreed to pay $150,000 after being accused by the Federal Trade Commission FTC of illegally collecting children’s data without parental consent. HyperBeard‘s website says it’s the largest mobile game developer and publisher in Mexico, with various games suc...

Games Don't Do Enough to Combat Toxicity at Launch

Riot Games has cutting-edge moderation tools at its disposal. Few of them are present in Valorant, which launched this week...

Kids on the Web in 2020

Technology is what is saving us from a complete change in the way of life in a world of a raging pandemic. It keeps the educational process going, relieves the shortage of human communication and helps us to live life as fully as possible given the isolation and social distancing. Many adults, an...

DoubleGun Group Builds Massive Botnet Using Cloud Services

An operation from the China-based cybercrime gang known as DoubleGun Group has been disrupted, which had amassed hundreds of thousands of bots that were controlled via public cloud services, including Alibaba and Baidu Tieba. NetLab 360 researchers, in a recent posting, said that it noticed DNS...

Rockstar Games: Minor Account Privacy can Set to Everyone.

In this report, the researcher demonstrated an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability that would allow Minor accounts accounts where the owner's age is self-reported to be under 18 years old to modify their privacy permissions to restricted settings. Ordinarily, accounts with owners betwe...

Rockstar Games: Referer Referer Header Leakage in language changer may lead to FB token theft

In this report, the researcher discovered an open redirect vulnerability that could be exploited by changing the language on the page at https://www.rockstargames.com/GTAOnline, and cause the user's full URL potentially including sensitive tokens to be included in the Referer header to the new...

Discord users tempted by bots offering “free Nitro games”

The last few weeks have seen multiple instances of problematic bots appearing in Discord channels. They bring tidings of gifts, but the reality is quite a bit different. Given so many more young kids and teens are at home during the current global lockdown, they may well see this scam bouncing...

The Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update

The Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update The update that is described in this article was replaced by a more recent update. To apply the latest update, please click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 935280 July 2007 Windows Vista Applicati...

Tekya Malware Threatens Millions of Android Users via Google Play

Researchers have discovered a new family of auto-clicker malware that commits mobile ad fraud, lurking in 56 apps on the Google Play store. Collectively, they have been downloaded nearly a million times worldwide. A team from Check Point Software recently discovered the malware, dubbed Tekya, whi...

PlayStation: Use-After-Free In IPV6_2292PKTOPTIONS leading To Arbitrary Kernel R/W Primitives

Summary Due to missing locks in option IPV62292PKTOPTIONS of setsockopt , it is possible to race and free the struct ip6pktopts buffer, while it is being handled by ip6setpktopt. This structure contains pointers ip6popktinfo that can be hijacked to obtain arbitrary kernel R/W primitives. As a...

L1ght Looks to Protect Internet Users from Toxic and Predatory Behavior

Cybersecurity has been regarded as a necessity for all computer users, especially today when data breaches and malware attacks have become rampant. However, one of the more overlooked aspects of cybersecurity is the prevention of other forms of cybercrime, such as the spread of harmful content an...

Rockstar Games: Referer Leakge in language changer may lead to FB token theft.

In this report, the researcher identified a CSRF vulnerability in the language changing function on https://www.rockstargames.com/GTAOnline/ that could be combined with other vulnerabilities to result in sensitive token theft such as Oauth tokens. This vulnerability would be triggered when changi...

Rockstar Games: Information Disclosure in https://www.rockstargames.com/search

In this report the researcher identified a flaw in our search function that caused it to display unintended error messages. These error messages contained detailed error codes that could reveal information useful to attackers. Thanks to this report we were able to address this behavior so that th...

Valve: OOB reads in network message handlers leads to RCE

Vulnerability In Source engine games there are many network messages sent from the server to the client that take an entity index. There is a common pattern among many of these messages for the lower bounds of the entity index to be checked but not the upper bounds. In many cases these out of bou...

Rockstar Games: DOM XSS on https://www.rockstargames.com/GTAOnline/feedback

In this report, the researcher identified a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the /GTAOnline/feedback endpoint. As we worked together on resolving this matter, the researcher helped us identify other parts of the GTA Online sub-site that suffered from the same vulnerability due to...