Security News > 2016 > June > Vulnerabilities in Facebook Chat and Messenger exploitable with basic HTML knowledge (Help Net Security)

Check Point’s security research team has discovered vulnerabilities in Facebook’s standard online Chat function, and its separately downloaded Messenger app. The vulnerabilities, if exploited, would allow anyone to essentially take control of any message sent by Chat or Messenger, modify its contents, distribute malware and even insert automation techniques to outsmart security defences. An attacker can reveal the message_id To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker simply needed to identify the unique ID for the sent … More →

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