Google Warns: Android Zero-Day Flaws in Pixel Phones Exploited by Forensic Companies

Google has disclosed that two Android security flaws impacting its Pixel smartphones have been exploited in the wild by forensic companies. The high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2024-29745 - An information disclosure flaw in the bootloader component CVE-2024-29748 - A...

util-linux wall Escape Sequence Injection

Wall-Escape CVE-2024-28085 Skyler Ferrante: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall ================================================================= Summary ================================================================= The util-linux wall command does not filter escape sequences from...

US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying

A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible ties to Hamas in an effort to kill privacy reforms to a major US spy program...

Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools

Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools--presumably coding tools--to improve their hacking abilities. From their report: In collaboration with OpenAI, we are sharing threat intelligence showing detected state affiliated adversaries--tracked as...

The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant

US spy agencies purchased Americans’ phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director...

PT-2024-15890 · Unknown · Spycamlizard

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SpyCamLizard version 1.230 Description: A vulnerability has been found in the HTTP GET Request Handler component of SpyCamLizard, affecting an unknown function. This issue leads to denial of service and can be exploited remotely. The exploit...

TotalCloud Insights: Hidden Risks of Amazon S3 Misconfigurations

Misconfiguring Amazon S3 Buckets Can Pose Major Risks Amazon Web Services AWS is the world’s largest cloud security provider, and it provides the ability to store massive amounts of cloud-resident data with the Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 bucket. Amazon S3 is an object storage solution known...

A Spy Agency Leaked People's Data Online—Then the Data Was Stolen

The National Telecommunication Monitoring Center in Bangladesh exposed a database to the open web. The types of data leaked online are extensive...

This Is the Ops Manual for the Most Tech-Savvy Animal Liberation Group in the US

For the first time, guerrilla animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere reveals a guide to its investigative tactics and toolkit, from spy cams to night vision and drones...

WassUp Real Time Analytics <= 1.9.4.5 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS

Description The plugin does not escape IP address provided via some headers before outputting them back in an admin page, allowing unauthenticated users to perform Stored XSS attacks against logged in admins wget --header="X-Forwarded-For: " https://example.com -q -O- The XSS will be triggered wh...

StripedFly Malware Operated Unnoticed for 5 Years, Infecting 1 Million Devices

An advanced strain of malware masquerading as a cryptocurrency miner has managed to fly the radar for over five years, infecting no less than one million devices around the world in the process. That's according to findings from Kaspersky, which has codenamed the threat StripedFly, describing it ...

WhatsApp spy mod spreads through Telegram, attacks Arabic-speaking users

It is not rare that users of popular instant messaging services find the official client apps to be lacking in functionality. To address that problem, third-party developers come up with mods that offer sought-after features besides aesthetic upgrades. Unfortunately, some of these mods contain...

Have you been compromised?

Imagine the scenario… A nation state recruits an asset / spy at age 18. Their education and living expenses are fully funded, all with the aim of getting them a job at a target organisation. All goes to plan, on paper they’re a good fit and they get a low profile graduate role in the company. Lif...

Storm-0978 attacks reveal financial and espionage motives

Microsoft has identified a phishing campaign conducted by the threat actor tracked as Storm-0978 targeting defense and government entities in Europe and North America. The campaign involved the abuse of CVE-2023-36884, which included a remote code execution vulnerability exploited before disclosu...

Storm-0978 attacks reveal financial and espionage motives

Microsoft has identified a phishing campaign conducted by the threat actor tracked as Storm-0978 targeting defense and government entities in Europe and North America. The campaign involved the abuse of CVE-2023-36884, which included a remote code execution vulnerability exploited before disclosu...

Android Spy App LetMeSpy Suffers Major Data Breach, Exposing Users' Personal Data

Android-based phone monitoring app LetMeSpy has disclosed a security breach that allowed an unauthorized third-party to steal sensitive data associated with thousands of Android users. "As a result of the attack, the criminals gained access to email addresses, telephone numbers and the content of...

AI Is Being Used to ‘Turbocharge’ Scams

Plus: Amazon’s Ring was ordered to delete algorithms, North Korea’s failed spy satellite, and a rogue drone “attack” isn’t what it seems...

CVE-2015-10110

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in ruddernation TinyChat Room Spy Plugin up to 1.2.8 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects the function wpshowroomspy of the file room-spy.php. The manipulation of the argument room leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be initiated...

Cross site scripting

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in ruddernation TinyChat Room Spy Plugin up to 1.2.8 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects the function wpshowroomspy of the file room-spy.php. The manipulation of the argument room leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be initiated...

CVE-2015-10110

Summary (CVE-2015-10110): Vulnerability in the WordPress plugin “ruddernation TinyChat Room Spy Plugin” (versions up to 1.2.8). The flaw resides in the function wp_show_room_spy (room-spy.php); manipulating the argument room enables cross-site scripting. Attacks can be initiated remotely. A fix i...