FBI arrested 19-Year-old Hacker for Sextortion; allegedly Hacked into Miss Teen USA's Webcam

A College 19-year-old college student and Hacker from Temecula, California has been arrested for hacking the webcams of Miss Teen USA 'Cassidy Wolf' and other women to extort nude photos and videos from them. Earlier this year Cassidy Wolf received an anonymous email in which the sender claimed t...

OSX Manage Webcam

This module will allow the user to detect installed webcams with the LIST action, take a snapshot with the SNAPSHOT action, or record a webcam and mic with the RECORD action This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Karotz Smart Rabbit 12.07.19.00 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2013-021: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Karotz Smart Rabbit Published: 08/01/13 Version: 1.0 Vendor: Electronic Arts http://www.ea.com/, formerly Mindscape, formerly Violet Product: Karotz Version affected: 12.07.19.00 Product description: Karotz is the...

Recent Reports of DHS-Themed Ransomware (UPDATE)

US-CERT has received reports of increased activity concerning an apparently DHS-themed ransomware malware infection occurring in the wild. Users who are being targeted by the ransomware receive a message claiming that use of their computer has been suspended and that the user must pay a fine to...

Google Chrome Inbuilt Flash player allows Webcam Hacking

No longer limited to Hollywood movies about cybercrime, webcam hacking has stealthily and aggressively broken into average households "I've heard a hacker could access my webcam and watch me in front of my computer. Could this really happen?" YES, other than using a Remote administration tools, i...

Google Chrome Inbuilt Flash player allows Webcam Hacking

No longer limited to Hollywood movies about cybercrime, webcam hacking has stealthily and aggressively broken into average households "I've heard a hacker could access my webcam and watch me in front of my computer. Could this really happen?" YES, other than using a Remote administration tools, i...

FBI Busts Hacker who blackmails 350 women for stripping on camera

The FBI Tuesday announced the arrest of Karen 'Gary' Kazaryan, a 27-year old man, who is said to have blackmailed more than 350 women after convincing them to strip off in front of their webcams has been arrested in the US. He was arrested in Glendale, California on Tuesday after being indicted o...

Facebook Patches Webcam Snooping Vulnerability

Late last week the social networking giant Facebook patched a particularly voyeuristic security vulnerability in the platform that could have given malefactors the ability to remotely turn on the webcams of other users and post videos to their profiles, according to a Bloomberg News report. The...

Researchers caught espionage malware mastermind on webcam

In march 2011 CERT-Georgia has Discovered Cyber Espionage Attack Incident on country of Georgia. Advanced Malicious Software was Collecting Sensitive, Confidential Information about Georgian and American Security Documents and then uploading it to some of Command and Control Servers. After a...

Fedora 17 : amsn-0.98.9-4.fc17 (2012-12151)

Update to a new version which fixes a lot of things, including webcam support. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: amsn-0.98.9-4.fc17

This is an MSN Messenger clone for Unix, Windows, and Macintosh. It is written in tcl/tk and supports filetransfers, webcam, etc...

DarkComet RAT Used in New Attack on Syrian Activists

There is a new attack campaign that’s targeting dissidents in Syria by enticing them to install an alleged security tool called AntiHacker, but instead installs the infamous DarkComet remote access tool that has the ability to log keystrokes, capture webcam images and take other surreptitious...

FinFisher spyware found running on computers all over the world

FinFisher, a software application used by law enforcement agencies for surveillance, appears to be far more widespred than originally thought.Sold by British company Gamma Internationl Gmbh, FinFisher secretly monitors computers by turning on webcams, recording everything the user types with a...

Dell Webcam Software ActiveX Control CrazyTalk4Native.dll Code Execution

A stack buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the Dell Webcam Software ActiveX control. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of certain properties in the ActiveX control. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a target user to open a specially crafted web...

Disparate Sentences in Facebook Hacking, Webcam Spying Cases

A British man could spend as much as a year in prison after admittedly hacking into the private Facebook account of a pop star and actress, meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to record his Rutgers University roommate in an intimate moment, will spend just...

WordPress WP-FaceThumb Gallery 0.1 Cross Site Scripting

Wordpress WP-FaceThumb Gallery Plugin Description: This plugin allows your visitor to take a snapshot whith a webcam and the thumb is display on your sidebar. The visitor indicate his pseudo and can let an URL which will be link to the thumb...

Dell Webcam 'crazytalk4.ocx' ActiveX Multiple BOF Vulnerabilities

This host is installed with Dell Webcam and is prone to multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpoddellwebcamactivexmultbofvuln.nasl 5988 2017-04-20 09:02:29Z teissa $ Dell Webcam 'crazytalk4.ocx' ActiveX Multiple BOF Vulnerabilities Authors: Madhuri D...

Dell Webcam 'crazytalk4.ocx' ActiveX Multiple BOF Vulnerabilities

Dell Webcam is prone to multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Dell Webcam CrazyTalk ActiveX Remote Overflow

The remote Windows host contains an install of the CrazyTalk ActiveX control, bundled with Dell Webcam software, that reportedly fails to sanitize input to the 'BackImage', 'ScriptName', 'ModelName', and 'SRC' properties, which could be abused to trigger a buffer overflow. By tricking a user into...

Dell Webcam Software ActiveX Control CrazyTalk4Native.dll Buffer Overflow

Added: 03/23/2012 BID: 52571 OSVDB: 80205 Background Dell Webcam center was written by Creative and branded by Dell. It includes features to control the Dell laptop's integrated webcam, providing photo capture and video recording capability. It comes bundled with Creative Livecam, which provides...