Metamorfo Returns with Keylogger Trick to Target Financial Firms

Researchers have discovered a recent spate of phishing emails spreading a new variant of Metamorfo, a financial malware known for targeting Brazilian companies. Now, however, it’s expanding its geographic range and adding a new technique. Metamorfo was first discovered in April 2018, in various...

Shoe with GPS embedded insole tracks ‘lost’ alzheimer’s & dementia patients

By Uzair Amir The shoe insole equipped with a built-in GPS tracker can also help you track your kids. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Shoe with GPS embedded insole tracks 'lost' alzheimer’s & dementia patients...

When Your Used Car is a Little Too ‘Mobile’

Many modern vehicles let owners use the Internet or a mobile device to control the car's locks, track location and performance data, and start the engine. But who exactly owns that control is not always clear when these smart cars are sold or leased anew. Here's the story of one former electric...

Use Off-Facebook tool to stop Facebook from tracking your activities

By Uzair Amir Facebook has finally rolled out the Off-Facebook Activity tool that it has been working on since August 2019. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Use Off-Facebook tool to stop Facebook from tracking your activities...

CVE-2012-6133

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Roundup before 1.4.20 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 @okmessage or 2 @errormessage parameter to issue...

The Fractured Future of Browser Privacy

Better anti-tracking measures have become the norm for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and other modern browsers. But they still disagree on how exactly they should work...

Apple Security Updates Tackle iOS Device Tracking, RCE Flaws

Apple’s latest security fixes, released Tuesday, tackle a wide range of bugs, including several patches for high-risk flaws that could allow for remote code execution RCE. Of particular interest to privacy-minded iPhone 11 users is an iOS 13.3.1 update that allows users to turn off U1...

How to Clear Data Facebook Collects About You from Other Sites and Apps

Facebook is one of the world's biggest advertising platforms, and that's because it knows a lot about you, me, and everyone. Facebook uses many tools to track people across the Internet, whether they have an account with the social networking site or not, and most of them rely on the online...

How to Clear Data Facebook Collects About You from Other Sites and Apps

Facebook is one of the world's biggest advertising platforms, and that's because it knows a lot about you, me, and everyone. Facebook uses many tools to track people across the Internet, whether they have an account with the social networking site or not, and most of them rely on the online...

Customer Tracking at Ralphs Grocery Store

To comply with California's new data privacy law, companies that collect information on consumers and users are forced to be more transparent about it. Sometimes the results are creepy. Here's an article about Ralphs, a California supermarket chain owned by Kroger: ...the form proceeds to state...

CVE-2019-15583

An information disclosure exists in 12.3.2, 12.2.6, and 12.1.12 for GitLab Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE. When an issue was moved to a public project from a private one, the associated private labels and the private project namespace would be disclosed through the GitLab API...

Google: Flaws in Apple’s Private-Browsing Technology Allow for Third-Party Tracking

Technology Apple designed for its Safari web browser to protect users from being tracked when they surf the web may actually do just the opposite, according to new research from Google. Google researchers have identified a number of security flaws in Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Protection that...

UPDATE: MITRE CALDERA 2.5.1

MITRE CALDERA 2.5.1 is now available since the last release – MITRE CALDERA 2.5.0, which was released a couple of days ago. As you remember, this awesome adversary emulation system was listed in my older post titled – List of Adversary Emulation Tools. Among major changes, what I like is that now...

CVE-2020-6849

The marketo-forms-and-tracking plugin through 1.0.2 for WordPress allows wp-admin/admin.php?page=marketofat CSRF with resultant XSS...

CVE-2020-6849

The marketo-forms-and-tracking plugin through 1.0.2 for WordPress allows wp-admin/admin.php?page=marketofat CSRF with resultant XSS...

CVE-2020-6849

CVE-2020-6849 concerns the WordPress plugin marketo-forms-and-tracking (

CVE-2020-6849

The marketo-forms-and-tracking plugin through 1.0.2 for WordPress allows wp-admin/admin.php?page=marketofat CSRF with resultant XSS...

sLoad launches version 2.0, Starslord

sLoad, the PowerShell-based Trojan downloader notable for its almost exclusive use of the Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS for malicious activities, has launched version 2.0. The new version comes on the heels of a comprehensive blog we published detailing the malware’s multi-stage...

Cookies, Single Sign-On, and You

What's the problem? As part of a concerted effort to protect end user privacy and increase browser security, major web browsers have been making changes to their treatment of 3rd party cookies. These changes are designed to cripple ad targeting services that track user behavior online and rely on...

News Wrap: PoC Exploits, Cable Haunt and Joker Malware

This week’s news wrap podcast breaks down the biggest Threatpost security stories of the week, including: Various proof-of-concept exploits being released for serious vulnerabilities this week – including for the recently-patched crypto-spoofing vulnerability found by the National Security Agency...