Category: Data Breaches

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How To Test For Prototype Pollution

Testing for client-side prototype pollution DOM Invader provides a number of features to help you test for client-side prototype pollution vulnerabilities. These enable you to perform the following key tasks: Automatically detect sources for prototype pollution in the URL and any JSON objects sent via web messages. This includes detecting alternative techniques using the same source. Generate…
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Prototype Pollution

What Is Prototype Pollution? Prototype pollution is a vulnerability that enables threat actors to exploit JavaScript runtimes. In a prototype pollution attack, threat actors inject properties into existing JavaScript construct prototypes, attempting to compromise the application. This vulnerability is called prototype pollution because it allows threat actors to inject values that overwrite or pollute the…
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3 Billion Account Credentials From Gmail, LinkedIn, Bitcoin Have Been Leaked

In the event that you have an account on Gmail and Linkedin, then this news is specifically for you. As per the report by BGR India, a huge vault or repository of the user data breach has been uncovered/exposed and hackers have as of late posted more than 3 billion clients’ credentials online as a…
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Another Credential Stuffing Attack Suffered by Spotify

A cybersecurity researcher disclosed a credential stuffing attack has been faced by Spotify, which occurred by utilizing stolen credentials of around 100,000 accounts of users. In the previous few months, this is the second credential stuffing attack that took place on a music platform. Earlier in November 2020, an Elasticsearch database was utilized to target…
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Former Employee Of Tesla Alleged Of Thieving About 26,000 Confidential Documents

Tesla is suing a previous individual from staff for supposedly taking secret data and endeavoring to cover his tracks in the result. The claim, recorded in the US Northern District of California Court, names Alex Khatilov as the supposed culprit, a Quality Assurance computer programmer. As per Tesla’s grumbling, just a short time subsequent to…
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RCE Vulnerability In Qualcomm’s Application Results In Data Breach

A cybersecurity issue/problem has been faced by Qualcomm recently which impacted the security of their visitor check-in framework. Qualcomm is an American multinational corporation, established in 1985, headquartered in California, that builds semiconductors, intellectual property, softwares and in addition provides wireless technology-related services. Qualcomm on its issue-related FAQ page explains, how the incident occurred, that…
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Bonobos Men’s Clothing Store Faces Massive Data Breach, Exposing 70GB Of Customer’s Personal Data

A huge data breach of 70GB of data has been faced by the Bonobos clothing store which revealed the personal data of millions of customers. The data breach took place when an attacker/hacker somehow downloaded the cloud backup of the store’s database, however, the organization claims that their internal systems were never breached in the…
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100,000 Private Records Of The U.N. Accessed In A Data Breach By Ethical Hackers

Cyber Security researchers have successfully and effectively hacked the United Nations, reaching out to client credentials and personally identifiable information (PII) including in excess of 100,000 private representative and task records prior to telling the U.N. about the issue through the association’s vulnerability divulgence program. Ethical hackers from the exploration bunch Sakura Samurai utilized a…
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Facebook Profile Data Scraped By Developers Of Malicious Chrome Extensions

Legal action has been filed by Facebook against two developers of Chrome extensions that the organization claimed was scraping client profile information that included profile IDs, names, and other browser-related data. The two anonymous developers working under the Oink and Stuff organization, created Chrome vindictive browser extensions, which contained concealed code that worked like spyware,…
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Ubiquiti Suggests To Change Password And Enable 2FA After Suffering Data Breach

Ubiquiti is an American vendor of networking technology devices that offers security cameras, routers, network video recorders, and access control systems. Ubiquiti is requesting their customers eagerly to change passwords to their accounts and activate two-factor authentication, after discovering unauthorized access to their IT (information technology) systems that are hosted by a third-party cloud provider.…
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