Experts Warn of Unprotected Prometheus Endpoints Exposing Sensitive Information

A large-scale unauthenticated scraping of publicly available and non-secured endpoints from older versions of Prometheus event monitoring and alerting solution could be leveraged to inadvertently leak sensitive information, according to the latest research. "Due to the fact that authentication an...

CVE-2021-41125

Scrapy is a high-level web crawling and scraping framework for Python. If you use HttpAuthMiddleware i.e. the httpuser and httppass spider attributes for HTTP authentication, all requests will expose your credentials to the request target. This includes requests generated by Scrapy components, su...

Authentication flaw

Scrapy is a high-level web crawling and scraping framework for Python. If you use HttpAuthMiddleware i.e. the httpuser and httppass spider attributes for HTTP authentication, all requests will expose your credentials to the request target. This includes requests generated by Scrapy components, su...

CVE-2021-41125

CVE-2021-41125 affects Scrapy (Python): when using HttpAuthMiddleware (http_user/http_pass spider attributes), credentials may be exposed in requests, including robots.txt checks and redirects. Affected versions include older Scrapy releases prior to fixes. Mitigation per sources: upgrade to Scra...

The 4 most common bad bot attack methods targeting financial services

Organizations in the financial services sector are high-value targets for cybercriminals. In recent years, more sophisticated botnets and other bad bot attack methods have enabled malicious hackers to ratchet up the speed of attacks on this sector. The four most common ways hackers deploy botnets...

Bad bot activity on sports betting websites rises during Euro 2020

Across Europe, the EURO 2020 tournament captivated fans over the past month, with Italy ultimately defeating England to take home the cup on July 11. As fans eagerly watched the matches, Imperva Research Labs was busy monitoring activity that wasn’t happening on the playing field -- but across a...

A hacker is selling 700 million LinkedIn users accounts

By Waqas LinkedIn has not suffered data breach but the records being sold are collected through data scraping technique. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A hacker is selling 700 million LinkedIn users accounts...

Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale

A new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on a popular hacker forum, according to researchers. Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on RaidForums by a hacker calling himself “GOD User TomLiner.” The advertisement, posted June 22, claims that 700...

Infographic: How Do You Stop Bad Bots?

According to Imperva’s Bad Bot Report 2021, bad bot traffic has maintained its upwards trend, amounting to 25.6 percent of all traffic in 2020, an all-time high. Combined with good bot traffic, 40.8 percent of internet traffic in 2020 wasn’t human, as human traffic decreased by 5.7 percent to 59....

Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data

A billion data points, including the usernames and mobile phone numbers of customers have been siphoned off Alibaba websites by a web crawler. The information has reached us about a week after a court ruling in the case. The court ruling A central Chinese court has ruled that an employee of a...

Microsoft Gets Second Shot at Banning hiQ from Scraping LinkedIn User Data

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted LinkedIn another legal option to try to prevent rival hiQ Labs from scraping public information from its user profiles, something the Microsoft-owned professional networking platform has claimed is a violation of user privacy and a misuse of its data. The court...

Infographic: How Are Bad Bots Hurting Your Business?

Bad bots are software applications which run automated tasks with malicious intent over the internet. They scrape data from sites without permission in order to reuse it and gain a competitive edge e.g. pricing, inventory levels, proprietary content, etc.. They are used for scalping, the act of...

Web Scraping: The Fine Line Between Business Intelligence and Data Privacy Violation. Is it Legal?

Web Scraping is the use of automated software also known as bots to extract content and data from a website. It is also classified by the OWASP as an automated threat OAT-011. Web Scraping differs from Screen Scraping in that it can extract underlying HTML code and data that is stored in database...

Gig Workers Being Paid $500 for Payroll Passwords

Fintech startup Argyle, a financial-services platform aimed at gig workers, is working to replace credit scores assigned by bureaus like Equifax. But closer security analysis hints that Argyle could be just the latest incarnation of an ongoing data-collection campaign, paying people to give up...

CrossLinked - LinkedIn Enumeration Tool To Extract Valid Employee Names From An Organization Through Search Engine Scraping

CrossLinked is a LinkedIn enumeration tool that uses search engine scraping to collect valid employee names from a target organization. This technique provides accurate results without the use of API keys, credentials, or even accessing the site directly. Formats can then be applied in the comman...

Scraped data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users published online

By Waqas Clubhouse, an invitation-only social media app for iOS with more than 10 million users has become a victim of data scraping. Here's what data was published. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scraped data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users published online...

Data from 500M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale Online

Personal data from more than 500 million LinkedIn users has been posted for sale online in yet another incident of threat actors scraping data from public profiles and slinging it online for potential cybercriminal misuse. Hackers posted an archive containing data they said includes LinkedIn IDs,...

Has Facebook leaked your phone number?

Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500 million phone numbers—has been made public. These phone numbers have been in the hands of some cybercriminals since 2019 due to a vulnerability in Facebook that...

533 Million Facebook Users' Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online

In what's likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability. The leaked data includes full...

533 Million Facebook Users' Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online

In what's likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability. The leaked data includes full...