Friday , November 22 2024

Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords from websites

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a website’s source code.

An examination of the text input fields in web browsers revealed that the coarse-grained permission model underpinning Chrome extensions violates the principles of least privilege and complete mediation.

“Forces Penpals” exposed US and UK Military Social Network’s 1 Million Records

Renowned cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a non-password-protected database having over 1.1 million records linked to Conduitor Limited (Forces Penpals)....
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CVE-2024-51503
Trend Micro released updates for Deep Security Agent RCE

Trend Micro released a security update for Deep Security 20 Agent Manual Scan Command Injection RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2024-51503) that resolves...
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CVE-2024-51503  Trend Micro released updates for Deep Security Agent RCE

Apple Releases Patch for two Actively Exploited Zero-Day

Apple released critical updates for its various products including for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and Safari to fix two zero-day...
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Apple Releases Patch for two Actively Exploited Zero-Day

Maxar Space Data Leak, Company admit, Investigation ongoing!

Maxar Space Systems has verified a major data breach that exposed particular information of current and former workers. The breach...
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Maxar Space Data Leak, Company admit, Investigation ongoing!

GitHub CLI Vulnerability Could Allow RCE

A security vulnerability (CVE-2024-52308) in the GitHub Command Line Interface (CLI) could allow remote code execution on users' devices. With...
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GitHub CLI Vulnerability Could Allow RCE

“Sarcoma” ransomware group
Hacker to disclose “Popular Life Insurance” 36 GB of stolen data

“Sarcoma” ransomware group attacked a well known Bangladeshi insurance company named "Popular life insurance company ltd". The threat actor keeps...
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“Sarcoma” ransomware group  Hacker to disclose “Popular Life Insurance” 36 GB of stolen data

BugHunt 2024: A Milestone Cyber security Competition held at Dhaka

Bug Hunt 2024, one of the largest cyber security competitions and conferences in Bangladesh, was successfully held at the ICT...
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BugHunt 2024: A Milestone Cyber security Competition held at Dhaka

TP-Link DHCP Vulnerability Allow Attackers Takeover Routers Remotely

A serious security flaw has been found in some TP-Link routers, potentially enabling hackers to remotely access the affected devices.The...
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TP-Link DHCP Vulnerability Allow Attackers Takeover Routers Remotely

WSJ reports
T-Mobile hacked in massive breach of telecom networks

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter that T-Mobile’s network was among the systems...
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WSJ reports  T-Mobile hacked in massive breach of telecom networks

Palo Alto Networks Confirms critical RCE zero-day actively exploited

"Palo Alto Networks has observed threat activity exploiting an unauthenticated remote command execution vulnerability against a limited number of firewall...
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Palo Alto Networks Confirms critical RCE zero-day actively exploited

Additionally, the researchers found that numerous websites with millions of visitors, including some Google and Cloudflare portals, store passwords in plaintext within the HTML source code of their web pages, allowing extensions to retrieve them.

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