Saturday, July 25, 2020

Tiktok App is filled with Vulnerabilities

Bad news to all those 1 billion active users of Tiktok and the news is as follows- A recent research carried out by Cybersecurity Company Checkpoint has discovered that the video-sharing app Tiktok had two major vulnerabilities which allowed cyber crooks to snoop into any account and access private details such as addresses, emails, and date of birth.
Reports are in that the security researchers from Checkpoint have alerted the China-based company about the vulnerabilities for which a fix has been issued in the recent update of the app. So, users of Tiktok are being urged by ByteDance, the parent company of Tiktok to update their app to ensure that they are completed protected from the vulnerabilities.
Going with the technical details provided by Checkpoint, the flaw exposed the app users to hackers who could then send a malicious SMS message to a user and as soon as the victim clicks on the link, the attacker was able to get a hold of the account and could successfully manipulate the content.
The research also says that the subdomain of Tiktok which happens to be ads.tiktok.com is also vulnerable to hacks as it is susceptible to XSS cyber-attacks where malicious scripts are injected into trusted websites for cyber fraud.

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