A week in security (July 22 – July 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Meta takes down 63,000 sextortion-related accounts on Instagram Windows update may present users with a BitLocker recovery screen TracFone will pay $16 million to settle FCC data breach investigation Google admits it can’t quite quit third-party cookies Heritage...

Meta takes down 63,000 sextortion-related accounts on Instagram

Meta announced the take-down of 63,000 sextortion-related Instagram accounts in Nigeria alone. The action was directed against a group known as Yahoo Boys, a loosely organized set of cybercriminals that largely operate out of Nigeria and specialize in different types of scams. Meta took down a ho...

Meta Removes 63,000 Instagram Accounts Linked to Nigerian Sextortion Scams

Meta Platforms on Wednesday said it took steps to remove around 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria that were found to target people with financial sextortion scams. "These included a smaller coordinated network of around 2,500 accounts that we were able to link to a group of around 20...

Meta Pauses AI Training on EU User Data Amid Privacy Concerns

Meta on Friday said it's delaying its efforts to train the company's large language models LLMs using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission DPC. The company expressed disappointment at...

Exploit for Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Checkpoint Quantum_Spark_Firmware

CVE-2024-24919 Name: CVE-2024-24919 Scanner Author: 0x...

Android Malware Poses as WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat to Steal Data

By Deeba Ahmed Android Security Alert- Hackers are disguising malware as popular apps like Instagram and Snapchat to steal your login details. Learn how to identify fake apps and protect yourself from this sneaky cyberattack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android Malwar...

WordPress WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block plugin <= 2.1.13 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Instagram Image Deletion vulnerability

Missing Authorization to Authenticated Subscriber+ Instagram Image Deletion vulnerability discovered by Thura Moe Myint mgthuramoemyint in WordPress Plugin WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block versions = 2.1.13...

CVE-2024-3662

The WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpzoominstagramcleardata function in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.13. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access...

CVE-2024-3662 WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block <= 2.1.13 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Instagram Image Deletion

The WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpzoominstagramcleardata function in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.13. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access...

CVE-2024-3662

CVE-2024-3662 affects the WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block plugin for WordPress. The vulnerability is due to a missing capability check in the function wpzoom_instagram_clear_data(), present in all versions up to and including 2.1.13. This allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level acc...

CVE-2024-3662 WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block <= 2.1.13 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Instagram Image Deletion

The WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpzoominstagramcleardata function in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.13. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access...

PT-2024-27098 · Wpzoom · Wpzoom Social Feed Widget & Block

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.1.13 Description: The issue is related to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpzoom instagram clear data function. This allows...

WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block < 2.1.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Instagram Image Deletion

Description The WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the wpzoominstagramcleardata function in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.13. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

CVE-2024-1214

The Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the savegroupslist function. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2024-1214

The Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the savegroupslist function. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2024-1213

The Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the esfinstasaveaccesstoken and efblsavefacebookaccesstoken...

Ukraine Arrests Hackers for Selling 100 Million Email, Instagram Accounts

By Waqas Ukrainian police seized a massive trove of 100 million stolen email and Instagram accounts - Three individuals were… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukraine Arrests Hackers for Selling 100 Million Email, Instagram Accounts...

Ukraine Arrests Trio for Hijacking Over 100 Million Email and Instagram Accounts

The Cyber Police of Ukraine has arrested three individuals on suspicion of hijacking more than 100 million emails and Instagram accounts from users across the world. The suspects, aged between 20 and 40, are said to be part of an organized criminal group living in different parts of the country. ...

Social media influencers targeted by identity thieves

Social media influencers are attractive targets for identity thieves. With large followings and a literal influence on their followers, its no wonder they are targeted by scammers and spreaders of fake news. A subset of influencers are the so-called "finfluencers": influencers that provide their...

CVE-2024-0779

The Enjoy Social Feed plugin for WordPress website WordPress plugin through 6.2.2 does not have authorisation and CSRF in various function hooked to admininit, allowing unauthenticated users to call them and unlink arbitrary users Instagram Account for example...