A week in security (September 23 – September 29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Millions of Kia vehicles were vulnerable to remote attacks with just a license plate number Privacy watchdog files complaint over Firefox quietly enabling its Privacy Preserving Attribution Telegram will hand over user details to law enforcement Don’t share the vir...

Malwarebytes Personal Data Remover: A new way to help scrub personal data online

There’s an awful lot about you online that some awful groups want to exploit. The right combination of personal data points could help an identity thief fool a bank into opening a new, fraudulent line of credit in your name. Your alma mater, salary, and email address could help an online scammer...

100 million+ US citizens have records leaked by background check service

A background check left a huge database unprotected online containing 2.2TB of people's data, according to research by Cybernews. The database was left passwordless and easily accessible to anyone on the internet by background check firm MC2 Data. MC2 Data gathers publicly available data to provi...

Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works

Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple’s Craig Federighi tells WIRED, allows your personal data to be “hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble.”...

PT-2024-28827 · Ptc · Ptc Thingworx

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PTC ThingWorx version 9.5.0 Description: An Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR in PTC ThingWorx allows attackers to view sensitive information, including personally identifiable information PII, regardless of access level. Recommendations:...

X accused of unlawfully using personal data of 60 million+ users to train its AI

In what may come as a surprise to nobody at all, theres been yet another complaint about using social media data to train Artificial Intelligence AI. This time the complaint is against X formerly Twitter and Grok, the conversational AI chatbot developed by Elon Musks company xAI. Grok is a large...

CVE-2024-33003

Some OCC API endpoints in SAP Commerce Cloud allows Personally Identifiable Information PII data, such as passwords, email addresses, mobile numbers, coupon codes, and voucher codes, to be included in the request URL as query or path parameters. On successful exploitation, this could lead to a Hi...

PT-2024-6173 · Sap · Sap Commerce Cloud

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SAP Commerce Cloud affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to errors in processing information in the OCC API Endpoint component of SAP Commerce Cloud. This could allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access t...

SAP Commerce Cloud 信息泄露漏洞

SAP Commerce Cloud is a cloud-based e-commerce platform from Germany's SAP. It supports sales management, marketing management, order management, and operations management. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in SAP Commerce Cloud that stems from certain OCC API endpoints that allow...

Inside the Dark World of Doxing for Profit

From tricking companies into handing over victims’ personal data to offering violence as a service, the online doxing ecosystem is not just still a problem—it’s getting more extreme...

Sensitive Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Contractor’s Unsecured Databases

Social Security numbers, death certificates, voter applications, and other personal data were accessible on the open internet, highlighting the ongoing challenges in election security...

PT-2024-38317 · WordPress · Forminator

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Forminator plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.29.1 Description: The issue allows unauthenticated attackers to extract the HubSpot integration developer API key, making unauthorized changes to the plugin's HubSpot integratio...

Meta Halts AI Use in Brazil Following Data Protection Authority's Ban

Meta has suspended the use of generative artificial intelligence GenAI in Brazil after the country's data protection authority issued a preliminary ban objecting to its new privacy policy. The development was first reported by news agency Reuters. The company said it has decided to suspend the...

Brazil Halts Meta's AI Data Processing Amid Privacy Concerns

Brazil's data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados ANPD, has temporarily banned Meta from processing users' personal data to train the company's artificial intelligence AI algorithms. The ANPD said it found "evidence of processing of personal data based on inadequate leg...

Meta's 'Pay or Consent' Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny

Meta's decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union E.U. has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc's competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the...

PT-2024-27813 · Unknown · Myfinances

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: MyFinances versions prior to 0.4.6 Description: The issue allows an actor to access personally identifiable information PII and financial information from another account while signed in as a user. This is due to a method in the application...

23andMe data breach under joint investigation in two countries

The British and Canadian privacy authorities have announced they will undertake a joint investigation into the data breach at global genetic testing company 23andMe that was discovered in October 2023. On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that cybercriminal...

When things go wrong: A digital sharing warning for couples

“When things go wrong” is a troubling prospect for most couples to face, but the internet—and the way that romantic partners engage both with and across it—could require that this worst-case scenario become more of a best practice. In new research that Malwarebytes will release this month, romant...

A European Summer of Sports is Upon Us – What Does it Mean for Security?

The recent Champions League final in London congratulations, Real Madrid! marked the opening shot to a hot European summer of major sporting events. We now approach the highly anticipated UEFA EURO 2024 football tournament in Germany and the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. And as we do, bad actors a...

Fedora: Security Advisory for keepassxc (FEDORA-2024-2e27372d4c)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...