Imgur: De-anonymization Attack: Cross Site Information Leakage

Dear Imgur Security Team, We are researchers at the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain. We have been working on analyzing Cross-Site Browser Leaks xsleaks and building a tool for finding instances of it on target web sites. Recently we tested imgur.com and discovered a flaw that can affect...

Dating apps that track users from home to work and everywhere in-between

TL;DR We were able to precisely locate and track the users of four major dating apps, potentially putting at risk 10 million users This risk level is elevated for the LGBT+ community who may use these apps in countries with poor human rights where they may be subject to arrest and persecution. Ap...

Malicious Package

saync is a malicious package which typosquatted a popular package with a similar name. It tracks user information such as name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the process was running as sudo and uploaded the information to a remote server...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of requst typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of reequest typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of requeest typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of aysnc typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of asyync typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of 4equest typosquatted a popular package of similar name and tracked users who had installed the incorrect package. The package uploaded information to a remote server including: name of the downloaded package, name of the intended package, the Node version and whether the...

Apple iOS Privacy Logic Flaw Vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system developed by Apple Inc. for mobile devices.Privacy is one of the privacy components. A security vulnerability exists in the Privacy component in Apple iOS versions prior to 12.2. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to track users with the help of a...

CVE-2018-1000815

Brave Software Inc. Brave version version 0.22.810 to 0.24.0 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in function ContentSettingsObserver::AllowScript in contentsettingsobserver.cc that can result in Websites can run inline JavaScript even if script is blocked, making attackers easier to track user...

Google Secretly Tracks What You Buy Offline Using Mastercard Data

Over a week after Google admitted the company tracks users' location even after they disable location history, it has now been revealed that the tech giant has signed a secret deal with Mastercard that allows it to track what users buy offline. Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars in...

Google Tracks Android, iPhone Users Even With 'Location History' Turned Off

Google tracks you everywhere, even if you explicitly tell it not to. Every time a service like Google Maps wants to use your location, Google asks your permission to allow access to your location if you want to use it for navigating, but a new investigation shows that the company does track you...

Code injection

The module botbait is a tool to be used to track bot and automated tools usage with-in the npm ecosystem. botbait is known to record and track user information. The module tracks the following information. Source IP process.versions process.platform How the module was invoked test, require,...

Apple iOS and macOS High Sierra Security S-MIME Certificate Handling Vulnerability

Apple iOS and macOS High Sierra are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices; macOS High Sierra is a specialized operating system for Mac computers. security is an information security and privacy component. Security is an information security and privacy...

Flaw In Major Browsers Allows 3rd-Party Scripts to Steal Your Saved Passwords

Security researchers have uncovered how marketing companies have started exploiting an 11-year-old bug in browsers' built-in password managers, which allow them to secretly steal your email address for targeted advertising across different browsers and devices. The major concern is that the same...

Dangerous liaisons

It seems just about everyone has written about the dangers of online dating, from psychology magazines to crime chronicles. But there is one less obvious threat not related to hooking up with strangers – and that is the mobile apps used to facilitate the process. We're talking here about...

CVE-2017-7146

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. The issue involves the "Security" component. It allows attackers to track users across installs via a crafted app that leverages Keychain data mishandling...

CVE-2017-7146

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. The issue involves the "Security" component. It allows attackers to track users across installs via a crafted app that leverages Keychain data mishandling...

The vulnerability of the multimedia player iTunes, which allows a tracker to monitor users

The vulnerability of the APNs Server component in the iTunes multimedia player relates to the use of open-text client certificates and their transmission to the vulnerable component. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to track users by correlating them with the certificates...