InfoSec News Nuggets 2/18/2025

Worrying YouTube security flaw exposed billions of user emails Experts have warned that any email from a YouTube account could be pulled from Google with a ‘relatively simple exploit’. A researcher who goes by Brutecat managed to leverage several vulnerabilities across Google products to access the email address of any YouTube user, CyberNews reports. Google has now patched the flaw, but this does represent a serious risk to the privacy of users, and could put them in danger of phishing attacks.…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 11/21/2024

Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal information ahead of the Black Friday shopping season. "The campaign leveraged the heightened online shopping activity in November, the peak season for Black Friday discounts. The threat actor used fake discounted products as phishing lures to deceive…
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