Social Networks

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2015
A singular Facebook Trojan has already infected nearly 110,000 Facebook users

Security researcher is investigating in a new strain of Facebook Trojan that in just two days has already infected 1110,000 Facebook users. Social networks represent a privileged attack vector for malware-based attacks, a recent investigation conducted by by the security researcher Mohammad Faghani revealed the existence of a Trojan is circulating among Facebook users. According to the researcher, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2015
Reddit published its transparency report 2014

The Reddit social news website issued its first transparency report shows it complied with only 32 user info requests in 2014. Reddit, the popular social news website has released its first Reddit transparency report that details data related the requests for user information and requests for content removal the company received in 2014. It is not […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2014
Several critical security vulnerabilities affect the Glassdoor website

The security expert  Mohamed M.Fouad discovered several critical security vulnerabilities at Glassdoor, which can lead to very harmful impact on all users. The Independent Security Researcher Mohamed M.Fouad has discovered  a lot of critical security vulnerabilities at Glassdoor that could lead to very harmful impact on all users.  Mohamed M.Fouad an Independent Security Researcher from Egypt. I […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2014
Facebook scams – Top 5 categories identified by a 2-year study

A two-year study conducted by researchers at Bitdefender analyzed more than 850000 Facebook scams identifying the most popular frauds. Experts at Bitdefender antivirus software provider have conducted a two-year study on the way crime exploit the popular social network Facebook, the analysis examines nearly 850,000 Facebook scams. The study on Facebook scams analyzed data from different […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2014
Facebook Tor hidden service is online

The popular social network has launched the Facebook Tor hidden service to provide a method to use its site securely. Write down the onion address! We discussed many times about the right to online anonymity and how anonymizing networks like Tor could protect it. The Tor Project is an Internet-traffic anonymization service that is able to anonymize the Internet […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2014
P2P payment feature hidden in Facebook Messenger

The student Andrew Aude discovered a still unreleased feature for payments of Facebook Messenger by using the iOS and Mac OS X hacking tool Cycript. Facebook is preparing to enter the world of mobile payments according to a recent report published by Techcrunch. The student at Stanford, Andrew Aude discovered a still unreleased feature of Facebook Messenger by […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2014
A new Mac botnet exploits the Reddit platform

DrWeb firm discovered a Mac Botnet which already has infected more than 17,000 PCs and exploits Reddit platform to provide list of C&Cs servers to the bot. Security experts at Russian anti-virus company Dr Web have uncovered a new botnet, which is composed by thousands of Mac computers. The researchers dubbed the new sophisticated strain […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2014
Malicious Facebook color changer App infected 10000 Users worldwide

Security Experts at Cheetah Mobile have uncovered a new scam based on a fake Facebook Color Changer App which infected 10000 users worldwide. Facebook  is a privileged target for cyber criminals, in many cases old fraud schema are proposed again by bad actors, it is the case of the bogus Facebook “Color Changer” app. Researchers at China-based Internet company […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2014
Instagram Adroid App affected by account session Hijacking flaw

A security researcher disclosed a serious issue on Instagram’s Android Application which could be exploited by an attacker to impersonate a victim. A security issue related to Instagram Mobile App for Android expose the users’ account to serious risks of data breach. A security researcher discovered that the Instagram Mobile App is affected by a Hijacking vulnerability which could be […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2014
Facebook dismantled Lecpetex botnet which infected 250,000 Computers

Facebook in a joint operation with the Greek Cyber Crime Division dismantled the Lecpetex botnet, which infected 250,000 Computers in different countries. Facebook has announced to have successfully conducted the takeover of the Lecpetex botnet  in Greece. The bad actors operating in Greece were using the popular social media platform for illicit activities, including data stealing, malware distribution […]