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Spotify, Audible, and Amazon used to push dodgy forex trading sites and more
Spotify and Amazon services have been flooded with bogus listings that push dubious "forex trading" sites, Telegram channels, and suspicious links claiming to offer pirated software according to our friends over at BleepingComputer. Cybercriminals are abusing the options to inject keywords and...
CVE-2024-11088 Simple Membership <= 4.5.5 - Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.5 via the WordPress core search feature. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from posts that have been restricted to...
Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information
A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal information ahead of the Black Friday shopping season. "The campaign leveraged the heightened online shopping activity in...
The vulnerability of Microsoft Edge browser, related to vulnerabilities in access control for personal information, allows attackers to disclose protected information.
The vulnerability of Microsoft Edge is related to deficiencies in restricting access to personal information. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to disclose protected information...
FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas
The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to...
Mars: unauthorized access and add user and change personal information all users
The report describes a vulnerability in the ██████████ website, where unauthorized access to an API endpoint allowed attackers to add new users and modify personal information of existing users. The vulnerability was classified as Improper Access Control. The issue stemmed from the absence of...
South Korea Fines Meta $15.67M for Illegally Sharing Sensitive User Data with Advertisers
Meta has been fined 21.62 billion won $15.67 million by South Korea's data privacy watchdog for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with advertisers without their consent. The...
City of Columbus breach affects around half a million citizens
A ransomware attack against the City of Columbus, Ohio—which drew public scrutiny following the city government's attempt to silence a researcher who told the public about the attack—has received a little more detail from an unexpected source: The Attorney General for the state of Maine. In a dat...
CVE-2024-45031 Apache Syncope: Stored XSS in Console and Enduser
When editing objects in the Syncope Console, incomplete HTML tags could be used to bypass HTML sanitization. This made it possible to inject stored XSS payloads which would trigger for other users during ordinary usage of the application. XSS payloads could also be injected in Syncope Enduser whe...
This industry profits from knowing you have cancer, explains Cody Venzke (Lock and Code S05E22)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast … On the internet, you can be shown an online ad because of your age, your address, your purchase history, your politics, your religion, and even your likelihood of having cancer. This is because of the largely unchecked “data broker” industry. Data brokers...
This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
Security researchers created an algorithm that turns a malicious prompt into a set of hidden instructions that could send a user's personal information to an attacker...
Election season raises fears for nearly a third of people who worry their vote could be leaked
As the United States enters full swing into its next presidential election, people are feeling worried, unsafe, and afraid. And none of that has to do with who wins. According to new research from Malwarebytes, people see this election season as a particularly risky time for their online privacy...
MoneyGram confirms customer data breach
Money transfer company MoneyGram has notified its customers of a data breach in which it says certain customers had their personal information taken between September 20 and 22, 2024. The investigation into the incident that was discovered on September 27 is still ongoing, and the number of...
Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext, Meta fined
Ireland’s privacy watchdog Data Protection Commission DPC has fined Meta €91M $101M after the discovery in 2019 that Meta had stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plaintext. The DPC ruled that Meta was in violation of GDPR on several occasions related to this breach. It determin...
GHSA-H5Q3-FJP4-2X7R MantisBT vulnerable to information disclosure with user profiles
Using a crafted POST request, an unprivileged, registered user is able to retrieve information about other users' personal system profiles. Impact Disclosure of private system profiles: Platform, OS, OS version, Description. Patches -...
“Simply staggering” surveillance conducted by social media and streaming services, FTC finds
The US Federal Trade Commission FTC released a report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services, finding that—and this will not come as a surprise to our regular readers—the companies engaged in vast surveillance of consumers in order t...
CVE-2024-8891 Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability on CIRCUTOR Q-SMT
An attacker with no knowledge of the current users in the web application, could build a dictionary of potential users and check the server responses as it indicates whether or not the user is present in CIRCUTOR Q-SMT in its firmware version 1.0.4...
CVE-2024-8891
CVE-2024-8891 applies to CIRCUTOR Q-SMT, firmware 1.0.4. The vulnerability allows an attacker with no knowledge of current users to enumerate potential users by observing server responses, revealing whether a user exists. This is a user enumeration/ private information exposure issue affecting th...
CVE-2024-8891 Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability on CIRCUTOR Q-SMT
An attacker with no knowledge of the current users in the web application, could build a dictionary of potential users and check the server responses as it indicates whether or not the user is present in CIRCUTOR Q-SMT in its firmware version 1.0.4...
Singapore Police Arrest Six Hackers Linked to Global Cybercrime Syndicate
The Singapore Police Force SPF has announced the arrest of five Chinese nationals and one Singaporean man for their alleged involvement in illicit cyber activities in the country. The development comes after a group of about 160 law enforcement officials conducted a series of raids on September 9...