Tag Archives: Twitter

This week it became known that due to the use of third-party SDKs, the data of Twitter and Facebook users leaked to the side (of course, without any knowledge). SDK (software development kit) is a set of developmental tools that allows software specialists to create applications for a specific software …

Information security experts Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered open source on ElasticSearch server, available without authentication, where were stored 4 terabytes of data: information of 4 billion people, of which 1.2 billion were unique users. Researchers found on the server names, email addresses, phone numbers and profile information of …

In 2017, the cybercriminal group The Shadow Brokers released an archive of malware and hacker tools that cybersecurity experts associate with the U.S. National Security Agency. This archive, among other things, contained a script that allowed tracing certain APT group, called DarkUniverse. According to experts, the group has been active …

Twitter head Jack Dorsey announced that in November this year, any political advertising will be banned on the platform, despite the fact that it brings good money to the company. The changes will affect both candidate ads and issue ads, although ads encouraging voter registration will still be allowed, along …

The ransomware group Shadow Kill Hackers took responsibility for the attack on the IT services of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, on October 24, 2019. Attackers demanded 4 bitcoins from the city authorities (approximately $ 35,000 at the current exchange rate). On their Twitter, hackers claim that they …

Representatives of Twitter admitted that the company inadvertently used data such as email addresses and phone numbers, intended for security purposes, for example, for two-factor authentication (2FA), to display targeted ads. The fact is that when companies and users promote their ads on Twitter, they can filter the advertising audience …

Today, an information security researcher known by the pseudonym axi0mX has published an open access jailbreak suitable for almost any iOS device with chips from A5 to A11 released between 2011 and 2017. That is, jailbreak is relevant for iPhone models from iPhone 4S to iPhone 8 and X. It …

The developers updated LibreOffice to versions 6.2.6 / 6.3.0, in which they fixed three serious vulnerabilities at once. These bugs allowed bypassing patches for other dangerous problems which specialists discovered earlier. The problems with previous patches were reported last month. In particular, then Cure53 specialist Alex Inführ warned that the …

U.S. Cyber Command has published several samples of the malware used by North Korean government hackers. All samples were uploaded on VirusTotal, popular service for file analysis. Cyber Command notified about the publication of malware samples via Twitter. The samples themselves can be found here and here. The downloaded malware …

Security experts analyzed a new interesting banking Trojan for the Android mobile operating system. The malware got the name Cerberus, and its author rents out its development (malware-as-a-service scheme). Cerberus is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) designed from the ground up — without partial or full use of the code …