Risky Bulletin Newsletter
August 22, 2022
Risky Biz News: Bitcoin ATMs hacked
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Airplane Accelerates leak: CyberNews says it found 626GB of customer data in an unsecured Elasticsearch server belonging to Airplane Accelerates, a free VPN service advertised to Chinese users. The data contained a staggering of 5.7 billion entries, including user IDs, what IP addresses users were connecting to and from, domain names, and timestamps, the news outlet reported.
Failed crypto-heist: Cryptocurrency bridge project Celer said it successfully fended off a cyber-attack after a threat actor attempted a DNS hijacking account against its frontend infrastructure.
Warning about in-app browsers: Privacy expert Felix Krause has published two write-ups over the past week warning about the dangers of using a mobile app's built-in browser as compared to standalone browsers. In a first report, Krause said he found that the Facebook and Instagram in-app browsers were tracking users on all the sites they visited, while in a second, he said he found key-logging code in TikTok's in-app browser, although he did not find any evidence that it was being actively used.