Top 3 API Leaks Identified by Cybersecurity & InfoSec Experts

APIs Application Programming Interfaces have proliferated widely, which increases their susceptibility to various vulnerabilities. In the realm of web applications, prime examples that stand out are SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol and Representational State Transfer REST APIs. Due to their...

CVE-2024-1402 Denial of service in mattermost mobile apps and server via emoji reactions

Mattermost fails to check if a custom emoji reaction exists when sending it to a post and to limit the amount of custom emojis allowed to be added in a post, allowing an attacker sending a huge amount of non-existent custom emojis in a post to crash the mobile app of a user seeing the post and to...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo Browser Mobile and Lenovo Browser HD Apps for Android that could allow an attacker to craft a payload that could result in the disclosure of sensitive information...

Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications

Governments can access records related to push notifications from mobile apps by requesting that data from Apple and Google, according to details in court records and a US senator...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: mvfst-2023.10.16.00-1.fc39

mvfst Pronounced move fast is a client and server implementation of IETF QU IC protocol in C++ by Facebook. QUIC is a UDP based reliable, multiplexed transp ort protocol that will become an internet standard. The goal of mvfst is to build a performant implementation of the QUIC transport protocol...

The Internet Is Turning Into a Data Black Box. An ‘Inspectability API’ Could Crack It Open

Unlike web browsers, mobile apps increasingly make it difficult or impossible to see what companies are really doing with your data. The answer? An inspectability API...

CVE-2023-37391

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in WPMobilePack.Com WordPress Mobile Pack – Mobile Plugin for Progressive Web Apps & Hybrid Mobile Apps plugin = 3.4.1 versions...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in WPMobilePack.Com WordPress Mobile Pack – Mobile Plugin for Progressive Web Apps & Hybrid Mobile Apps plugin = 3.4.1 versions...

CVE-2023-37391

CVE-2023-37391 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WPMobilePack.Com WordPress Mobile Pack – Mobile Plugin for Progressive Web Apps & Hybrid Mobile Apps, affecting versions

CVE-2023-37391: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in WPMobilePack.Com WordPress Mobile Pack – Mobile Plugin for Progressive Web Apps & Hybrid Mobile Apps plugin = 3.4.1 versions...

CVE-2023-22813

The CVE-2023-22813 entry describes a vulnerability in Western Digital My Cloud OS 5 and related apps (My Cloud OS 5 Mobile/Web, My Cloud Home Mobile/Web, ibi Mobile/Web, SanDisk ibi) where a device API endpoint lacks access controls due to a permissive CORS policy and no authentication for privat...

CVE-2023-22813 Device API endpoint missing access controls on Western Digital Mobile and Web Apps

A device API endpoint was missing access controls on Western Digital My Cloud OS 5 iOS and Anroid Mobile Apps, My Cloud Home iOS and Android Mobile Apps, SanDisk ibi iOS and Android Mobile Apps, My Cloud OS 5 Web App, My Cloud Home Web App and the SanDisk ibi Web App. Due to a permissive CORS...

Trading Convenience for Credentials

Tap. Eat. Repeat. Regret? Using food or grocery delivery apps is great. It really is. Sure, there’s a fee, but when you can’t bring yourself to leave the house, it’s a nice treat to get what you want delivered. As a result, adoption of food apps has been incredibly fast and they are now a...

Mobile app usage soars but security still falls short

Benchmark analysis of mobile apps shows 99% have security or privacy vulnerabilities. These weaknesses can cause exposure of sensitive information and jeopardize brand reputation, customer trust and company value...

Warning: "FaceStealer" iOS and Android apps steal your Facebook login

Earlier this month, security researchers from Meta found 400 malicious Android and iOS apps designed to steal user Facebook login credentials. Such mobile malware, which Malwarebytes detects typically as Android/Trojan.Spy.Facestealer, usually arrives as an app disguised as a useful or entertaini...

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 6, 2022) — Continuing down the Privacy Policy rabbit hole

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. As I wrote about last week, I’ve been diving a lot into apps’ privacy policies recently. And I was recently made aware of a new type of app I never knew existed — family trackers. There are countless mobile apps for...

PT-2022-23690

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WhatsApp affected versions not specified Description An integer overflow in WhatsApp could result in remote code execution in an established video call. The issue affects WhatsApp mobile apps. Recommendations At the moment, there is no...

Researchers Discover Nearly 3,200 Mobile Apps Leaking Twitter API Keys

Researchers have uncovered a list of 3,207 mobile apps that are exposing Twitter API keys in the clear, some of which can be utilized to gain unauthorized access to Twitter accounts associated with them. The takeover is made possible, thanks to a leak of legitimate Consumer Key and Consumer Secre...

Fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps are duping investors

Together with the Department of Homeland Security DHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the FBI has released a warning about cybercriminals creating fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps in order to defraud cryptocurrency investors. The threat actors convince...

FBI Warns of Fake Cryptocurrency Apps Stealing Millions from Investors

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has warned of cyber criminals building rogue cryptocurrency-themed apps to defraud investors in the virtual assets space. "The FBI has observed cyber criminals contacting U.S. investors, fraudulently claiming to offer legitimate cryptocurrency investme...