Pairing Privacy and Security with Digital Identities in Retail

As today’s customer expectations for digital shopping continue to escalate, many online retailers are leveraging consumers’ unique digital identities to provide a seamless and secure account registration and login process. However, it’s important to recognize the security and privacy implications...

Android Keyboard App Could Swindle 40M Users Out of Millions

Researchers are warning users to delete a popular Android keyboard app that, once downloaded, makes unauthorized purchases of premium digital content. Google told Threatpost it has removed the app from its Google Play marketplace – but researchers say it was downloaded on at least 40 million phon...

CVE-2015-9517

The CVE-2015-9517 entry concerns Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) Manual Purchases extension for WordPress. A stored XSS vulnerability arises from misusing add_query_arg, affecting EDD Manual Purchases across versions: 1.8.x before 1.8.7; 1.9.x before 1.9.10; 2.0.x before 2.0.5; 2.1.x before 2.1.11; ...

CVE-2015-9517

The Easy Digital Downloads EDD Manual Purchases extension for WordPress, as used with EDD 1.8.x before 1.8.7, 1.9.x before 1.9.10, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.11, 2.2.x before 2.2.9, and 2.3.x before 2.3.7, has XSS because addqueryarg is misused...

CVE-2015-9371

CVE-2015-9371 concerns the WordPress ecosystem: the Manual Purchases Add-on for iThemes Exchange (before version 1.1.0) is vulnerable to XSS via add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg(). The connected records confirm the affected product and method but do not provide explicit exploitation details, ...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Apple iOS and watchOS Wallet

Apple iOS and Apple watchOS are both products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices. apple watchOS is an operating system for smartwatches. wallet is a wallet application. A security vulnerability exists in the Wallet component of Apple iOS before 12.4 and watchOS befo...

Malicious Package

fast-requests is a malicious package. It uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server, allowing attackers to make purchases on behalf of users who have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts...

Malicious Package

whiteproject is a malicious package. It contains malware that uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server, allowing the attacker to make purchases on behalf of users if they have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts...

Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail

Adobe fixes, an executive order, and more of the week's top security news...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of carloprojectdiscord contain obfuscated malware that uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server. This allows attackers to make purchases on behalf of users if they have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts. Recommendation Remove the package from your...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of discorddebuglog contain obfuscated malware that uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server. This allows attackers to make purchases on behalf of users if they have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of carloprojectlesang contain obfuscated malware that uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server. This allows attackers to make purchases on behalf of users if they have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts. Recommendation Remove the package from your environmen...

U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer's phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical...

Google Secretly Tracks What You Buy Offline Using Mastercard Data

Over a week after Google admitted the company tracks users' location even after they disable location history, it has now been revealed that the tech giant has signed a secret deal with Mastercard that allows it to track what users buy offline. Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars in...

Google Secretly Tracks What You Buy Offline Using Mastercard Data

Over a week after Google admitted the company tracks users' location even after they disable location history, it has now been revealed that the tech giant has signed a secret deal with Mastercard that allows it to track what users buy offline. Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars in...

Yelp: Unauthorized Use of Victim Credit Card

SUMMARY Yelp user's credit cards are at risk of being compromised There's a way by which a malicious attacker can make unauthorized purchases from the victim's credit card. Just by getting the victim to some external website and clicking on it, the victim would have eventually paid for some...

Fortnite APK Download for Android Won't Be Available on Google Play Store

There's both good news and bad news for Fortnite game lovers. Fortnite, one of the most popular games in the world right now, is coming to Android devices very soon, but players would not be able to downloadFortnite APK from the Google Play Store. Instead, Epic Games software development company...

Using In-Game Purchases to Launder Money

Evidence that stolen credit cards are being used to purchase items in games like Clash of Clans, which are then resold for cash...

Latin American ‘Biñeros’ Bond Over Fraudulent Purchase Scheme

A type of card-not-present fraud is spreading throughout the Latin American underground, uniting groups of malefactors in a communal effort to perpetrate it as widely and as often as possible. Cybercriminals in the region are making use of problems in the validation process for bank identificatio...

Sending Inaudible Commands to Voice Assistants

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to send inaudible commands to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Over the last two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear t...