Massive LinkedIn Phishing, Bot Attacks Feed on the Job-Hungry

Emotionally vulnerable and willing to offer up any information that lands the gig, job seekers are prime targets for social engineering campaigns. And with the “Great Resignation” in full swing, cybercriminals are having an easy time finding their next victim. Just since Feb. 1, analysts have...

Imperva Mitigates Massive Bot Attack of 400 Million Requests

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection detected and stopped the largest bot attack in Imperva history. The web scraping attack targeted a global job listing site with operations in six countries. The attacker used a large-scale botnet, generating no less than 400 million bot requests from nearly 400,000...

CVE-2021-36723 Emuse - eServices / eNvoice Exposure Of Private Personal Information

Emuse - eServices / eNvoice Exposure Of Private Personal Information due to lack of identification mechanisms and predictable IDs an attacker can scrape all the files on the service...

PT-2021-21327 · Emuse · Emuse

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Emuse - eServices / eNvoice affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns the exposure of private personal information due to a lack of identification mechanisms and predictable IDs. An attacker can exploit this to scrape al...

The 5 Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, and the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, it’s time to take stock of what resonated with our 1 million+ monthly visitors this year, with an eye to summing up some hot trends gleaned from looking at the most-read stories on the Threatpost site. While 2020 was all about...

Facebook to Pay Hackers for Reporting Data Scraping Bugs and Scraped Datasets

Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, has announced that it's expanding its bug bounty program to start rewarding valid reports of scraping vulnerabilities across its platforms as well as include reports of scraping data sets that are available online. "We know that automated...

CVE-2021-41090 Instance config inline secret exposure

Grafana Agent is a telemetry collector for sending metrics, logs, and trace data to the opinionated Grafana observability stack. Prior to versions 0.20.1 and 0.21.2, inline secrets defined within a metrics instance config are exposed in plaintext over two endpoints: metrics instance configs defin...

Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users’ data

By Deeba Ahmed Facebook tracked down the programmer after he mistakenly used the same username and contact information on email and job portals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users data...

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...

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

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...