Twitter API Abused to Uncover User Identities

Twitter said that malicious actors, with potential ties to state-sponsored groups, were abusing a legitimate function on its platform to unmask the identity of users. The social media giant said that on Dec. 24, 2019, it discovered a large network of fake accounts abusing a legitimate API...

Hackers Exploited Twitter Bug to Find Linked Phone Numbers of Users

Twitter today issued a warning revealing that attackers abused a legitimate functionality on its platform to unauthorizedly determine phone numbers associated with millions of its users' accounts. According to Twitter, the vulnerability resided in one of the APIs that has been designed to make it...

Hackers Exploited Twitter Bug to Find Linked Phone Numbers of Users

Twitter today issued a warning revealing that attackers abused a legitimate functionality on its platform to unauthorizedly determine phone numbers associated with millions of its users' accounts. According to Twitter, the vulnerability resided in one of the APIs that has been designed to make it...

Beers with Talos Ep. #71: I Have the Power(Shell)

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 71 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Jan. 17, 2020 PowerShell is a frequent flyer in security headlines — a powerful and oft-wielded tool for attacke...

X (Formerly Twitter): Twitter Source Label allow 'mongolian vowel separator' U+180E (app name)

Summary: Twitter app-names which are shown in the Tweet source label are supposed to be unique and because of that they must not include invisible unicode characters. However, you can use the mongolian vowel separator in these app-name, which allows to fake a app-name. Description: Every tweet ha...

X (Formerly Twitter): iOS app crashed by specially crafted direct message reactions

Summary: iOS app crashed by specially crafted direct message reactions Description: Twitter does not properly sanitize direct message reactions, making it possible for arbitrary reaction text to be shown to the user via the message preview in the direct message list. Special characters such as \r...

Socialscan - Check Email Address And Username Availability On Online Platforms With 100% Accuracy

socialscan offers accurate and fast checks for email address and username usage on online platforms. Given an email address or username, socialscan returns whether it is available, taken or invalid on online platforms. Features that differentiate socialscan from similar tools e.g. knowem.com,...

X (Formerly Twitter): Accepting error message on twitter sends you to attacker site

Summary: Accepting error message on twitter sends you back to attacker site. Description: 1. The link https://twitter.com/i/flow shows up an error message with an OK button 2. When you are not logged in, clicking in that OK button takes you back to twitter.com 3. But if you open that link when yo...

Limited header injection when using dynamic overrides with user input in RubyGems secure_headers

Impact If user-supplied input was passed into append/overridecontentsecuritypolicydirectives, a newline could be injected leading to limited header injection. Upon seeing a newline in the header, rails will silently create a new Content-Security-Policy header with the remaining value of the...

CVE-2011-3614

An Access Control vulnerability exists in the Facebook, Twitter, and Embedded plugins in Vanilla Forums before 2.0.17.9...

Improper access control

An Access Control vulnerability exists in the Facebook, Twitter, and Embedded plugins in Vanilla Forums before 2.0.17.9...

CVE-2011-3614

CVE-2011-3614 affects Vanilla Forums (Facebook, Twitter, and Embedded plugins) prior to version 2.0.17.9. The issue is an Access Control vulnerability that could impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Remediation: upgrade to Vanilla Forums 2.0.17.9 or newer; apply any vendor-supplie...

CVE-2011-3614

An Access Control vulnerability exists in the Facebook, Twitter, and Embedded plugins in Vanilla Forums before 2.0.17.9...

JhoneRAT: Cloud based python RAT targeting Middle Eastern countries

By Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura with contributions from Eric Kuhla. Updated January 17th: the documents do not exploit the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. Executive Summary Today, Cisco Talos is unveiling the details of a new RAT we have identified we're calling "JhoneRAT." This...

New JhoneRAT Malware Targets Middle East

Researchers are warning of a new remote access trojan RAT, dubbed JhoneRAT, which is being distributed as part of an active campaign, ongoing since November 2019, that targets victims in the Middle East. Once downloaded, the RAT gathers information on the victims’ computers and is also able to...

X (Formerly Twitter): Bypass Password Authentication for updating email and phone number - Security Vulnerability

Summary: Additional requirement for authentication is an extra layer of security for a person's Twitter account. Instead of only entering the password at the time of log in, twitter further Introduces additional layer of security by prompting users to enter their password before attempting to...

Did Donald Trump and Iran Use Twitter to Prevent a War?

Tweets from US president Donald Trump and Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif Tuesday offered a fascinating glimpse at how world leaders can communicate more quickly and directly than ever in times of crisis...

Facebook Cracks Down on Deepfake Videos

Facebook is banning deepfake videos, which stem from a technique of human-image synthesis based on artificial intelligence AI to create fake content. Over the past year, security experts and lawmakers have voiced concerns about malicious deepfake applications, particularly as a vessel for...

X (Formerly Twitter): lack of input validation that can lead Denial of Service (DOS)

Hi Security Team, Summary: There is no limit to the number of characters in the issue comments, which allows a DoS attack. The DoS attack affects server-side. Description On the input form of Username in https://twitter.com/settings/screenname there's no Input validation using this you can send...

X (Formerly Twitter): User input validation can lead to DOS

Hi Security Team, Summary: There is no limit to the number of characters on phone numbers and using this you can perform a DOS Attack Description: On the input form of phone number in https://twitter.com/account/complete there's no Input validation using this you can send more payload and may cau...