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VLC Player Enables Hackers To Stream Malicious Video To Your PC - Risk to 200 Million Computers

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Serious flaws in VLC Media Player allow attackers to load specially crafted video files into a vulnerable system and execute arbitrary code. It's time for hackers to hack your PC using malformed video files. The two vulnerabilities that allow attackers to execute untrusted video files on systems running vulnerable VLC media player have been fixed by VideoLAN in a security update for VLC Media Player. The VideoLAN project created the open source, cross-platform VLC media player, which supports streaming media. More than 200 million people have downloaded VLC Player worldwide, and it is installed on hundreds of millions of computers running Windows, iOS, Android, and Mac. Zhangyang from Hackerone and Symeon Paraschoudis from pentest partners found and reported two vulnerabilities. According to Symantec's cybersecurity specialists, the Windows operating system is being used by the Chinese hacking group Cicada (also known as Stone Panda or APT10) to spread malware that is used to s...

Pakistani StormFiber website 'hacked' by Indians

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  The Indian flag and a thank-you note for the Indian Armed Forces are displayed on the StormFiber website as part of the hacking prank. The note reads, "Thank you to all the valiant fighters who gave their lives to make us one of the greatest and proudest nations in the world. The hacked post also complains that it has grown weary of "sniffing" Pakistan's defense information.

Twitter data breach: Personal details of 5.4M users leaked including celebrities and companies 2022

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  The enormous collection of personal information taken from Twitter is being offered for sale on the Dark Web a hacker forum for the current asking price of $30,000. Twitter acknowledged the breach and said that hackers had taken advantage of a flaw dating back to 2022. According to reports, the information contains 5.4 million users' names, phone numbers, and email addresses. A few of the exposed users are businesses and celebrities. The Twitter bug first appeared in January. Users' phone numbers, emails, IDs, names, and addresses were exposed as a result of the January-discovered Twitter issue. This information was lost as a result of a flaw in Twitter's Android user permission system. This procedure checks to see if a different account has been created with the same phone number, name, or email address. Using the flaw, the hacker, The data of millions of users were made available for sale when this problem, which was left unfixed, was exploited by a hacker. The data was...

Former PM Imran Khan’s Official Instagram Account Hacked

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Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan’s official Instagram account has reportedly been hacked. The hacker shared a promotional tweet regarding Elon Musk and cryptocurrency from the former Prime Minister’s Instagram account, which has currently over 7.4 million followers. The founder of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, tweeted a screenshot that Imran Khan's account posted along with a request for people to click a link to receive money.