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...

Exploit for Incorrect Authorization in Atlassian Jira

CVE-2019-3403 I wanted to easily be able to exploit CVE-2019-3...

Genisys - Powerful Telegram Members Scraping And Adding Toolkit

Powerful Telegram Members Scraping and Adding Toolkit Features ADDS IN BULKby user id, not by username Scrapes and adds to public groups Works in Windows systems You can run unlimited accounts at the same time in order to add members CSV files auto-distributer based on number of accounts to use...

BaphoDashBoard - Dashboard For Manage And Generate The Baphomet Ransomware

With this proyect we will be able to handle the data of the victims we obtain with Baphomet Ransomware. BaphoDashBoard is developed in C under framework dotnet-core 3.1. Both Baphomet Ransomware and BaphoDashBoard proyects are thrown out for educational purposes and so we can get something out of...

How to Use Excel to Scrape a Website

By Owais Sultan There are two ways to use Excel as a scraper: the web queries method and the VBA method. Here is how to use Excel to scrape a website using each. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Use Excel to Scrape a Website...

Facebook sues developer of data scraping extensions for Chrome

By Sudais Asif The developer is a Portuguese company that Facebook claims developed malicious Chrome extensions allowing data scraping. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook sues developer of data scraping extensions for Chrome...

Facebook: Malicious Chrome Extension Developers Scraped Profile Data

Facebook has filed legal action against two Chrome extension developers that the company said was scraping user profile data – including names and profile IDs – as well as other browser-related information. The two unnamed developers under the business name Oink and Stuff, developed Chrome...

Grawler - Tool Which Comes With A Web Interface That Automates The Task Of Using Google Dorks, Scrapes The Results, And Stores Them In A File

Grawler is a tool written in PHP which comes with a web interface that automates the task of using google dorks, scrapes the results, and stores them in a file. General info Grawler aims to automate the task of using google dorks with a web interface, the main idea is to provide a simple yet...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: ███ on https://████ enable ███ scraping, injection, stored XSS

Summary: An open ████████ at the ████████ system enables quick and easy scraping of ███ without authentication nor authorization. Description: The █████ includes an open set of ██████endpoints at https://██████████. Any individual can execute requests on these endpoints without authorization nor...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: IDOR on https://██████ via POST UID enables database scraping

Summary: The UID parameter on █████████ in the ██████ ███████ system, with ███████, does not validate that the caller has permission to view information on the UID entered, thereby enabling personnel and student data extraction. Description: The user operations API endpoint for the ███ ██████████...

OnionSearch - A Script That Scrapes Urls On Different .Onion Search Engines

OnionSearch is a Python3 script that scrapes urls on different ".onion" search engines. Prerequisite Python 3  Currently supported Search engines ahmia darksearchio onionland notevil darksearchenginer phobos onionsearchserver torgle onionsearchengine tordex tor66 tormax haystack multivac evosear...

How to Run Google SERP API Without Constantly Changing Proxy Servers

You've probably run into a major problem when trying to scrape Google search results. Web scraping tools allow you to extract information from a web page. Companies and coders from across the world use them to download Google's SERP data. And they work well – for a little while. After several...

How to Run Google SERP API Without Constantly Changing Proxy Servers

You've probably run into a major problem when trying to scrape Google search results. Web scraping tools allow you to extract information from a web page. Companies and coders from across the world use them to download Google's SERP data. And they work well – for a little while. After several...