Track Geolocation Of Users Using Contact Form 7 <= 1.4 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description The Track Geolocation Of Users Using Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated...

Journalists Emerge as Favored Attack Target for APTs

Targeted phishing attacks are traced to multiple threat actors who have each independently focused on stealing credentials and sensitive data and tracking the geolocation of journalists. In a Thursday report by Proofpoint, researchers outline individual efforts by advance persistent threat APT...

MonitorMinor: vicious stalkerware?

Updated March 17th, 2020 The other day, our Android traps ensnared an interesting specimen of commercial software that is positioned as a parental control app, but may also be used to secretly monitor family members or colleagues – or, in other words, for stalking. Such apps are often called...

Customer Tracking at Ralphs Grocery Store

To comply with California's new data privacy law, companies that collect information on consumers and users are forced to be more transparent about it. Sometimes the results are creepy. Here's an article about Ralphs, a California supermarket chain owned by Kroger: ...the form proceeds to state...

Android OS API-Breaking Flaw Offers Useful WiFi Data to Bad Actors

An “API-breaking” vulnerability has been uncovered that potentially exposes Android device systems data to rogue apps — information that could be very useful to bad actors. Researchers from Nightwatch Cybersecurity System said that certain all-points-bulletins sent out by the Android OS expose...

tinfoleak - Get detailed information about a Twitter user activity

tinfoleak is a simple Python script that allow to obtain: basic information about a Twitter user name, picture, location, followers, etc. devices and operating systems used by the Twitter user applications and social networks used by the Twitter user place and geolocation coordinates to generate ...

Flashlight App Settles with FTC

The makers of a popular Android flashlight application have settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that they covertly tracked the locations of the “Brightest Flashlight Free” users and sold that information to advertising firms. The FTC’s charges stem primarily from the fact...