Minecraft fans beware: Players and servers at risk from BleedingPipe vulnerability

Minecraft players interested in modding are potentially at risk of compromise. A Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability in certain Minecraft mods allows for malicious commands on both servers and clients. The vulnerability, named BleedingPipe, allows attackers to take over a targeted server...

modding-faq.de Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3277128

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Meta accuses apps of stealing WhatsApp accounts

Meta is attempting to clamp down on rogue WhatsApp-styled applications which originate from China. Bleeping Computer reports that no fewer than one million WhatsApp accounts have been compromised, allegedly as a result of using these apps which are claimed to bundle malware. Dubious apps The apps...

CVE-2022-35978

CVE-2022-35978 (Minetest) affects Minetest prior to patched releases. In single-player mode, a mod can set a global setting that controls the Lua script loaded to display the main menu. The script is loaded as soon as the game session ends, and the Lua environment for the menu is not sandboxed, a...

City: Skylines developers warn of rogue mod

Players of the popular city-building simulator and video game City: Skylines need to check devices for rogue code lurking in mods related to a rework of something called Harmony, essential for modding across several titles. The threat arrives in a broader landscape—video game modding—already know...

Modified Version of WhatsApp for Android Spotted Installing Triada Trojan

A modified version of the WhatsApp messaging app for Android has been trojanized to intercept text messages, serve malicious payloads, display full-screen ads, and sign up device owners for unwanted premium subscriptions without their knowledge. "The Trojan Triada snuck into one of these modified...

Cheating the cheater: How adversaries are using backdoored video game cheat engines and modding tools

By Nick Lister and Holger Unterbrink, with contributions from Vanja Svajcer. News summary Cisco Talos recently discovered a new campaign targeting video game players and other PC modders.Talos detected a new cryptor used in several different malware campaigns hidden in seemingly legitimate files...

From Minecraft to Metasploit. Game hacking could start your cyber security career

Human beings are curious. Give a computer game to a kid and it’s only a matter of time before they get bored with the constraints of the gameplay and start trying novel things. This is encouraged by a lot of game developers by hiding Easter eggs in hard to reach locations. Once the confines have...

Cheat Engine - A Development Environment Focused On Modding

Cheat Engine is an open source tool designed to help you with modifying single player games running under window so you can make them harder or easier depending on your preferencee.g: Find that 100hp is too easy, try playing a game with a max of 1 HP, but also contains other usefull tools to help...

modding-union.com Open Redirect vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://modding-union.com/index.php?thememode=mobile;redirect=https://openbugbounty.org\n Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 15.01.2018 Vulnerability type:| Open Redirect Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 601158 VIP websit...

Anonymous Offline Communications System: PirateBox

Anonymous Offline Communications System PirateBox creates offline wireless networks designed for anonymous file sharing, chatting, message boarding, and media streaming. You can think of it as your very own portable offline Internet in a box! When users join the PirateBox wireless network and ope...

Anonymous Offline File-Sharing and Communications System: PirateBox

PirateBox creates offline wireless networks designed for anonymous file sharing, chatting, message boarding, and media streaming. You can think of it as your very own portable offline Internet in a box! When users join the PirateBox wireless network and open a web browser, they are automatically...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Liero Xtreme 0.62b

Luigi Auriemma Application: Liero Xtreme http://lieroxtreme.thegaminguniverse.com Versions: = 0.62b Platforms: Windows Bugs: A server crash/freeze B format string in the visualization function Exploitation: A remote, versus server B local/remote, versus clients Date: 06 Mar 2006 Author: Luigi...