New bugs allow hacking TikTok
TikTok, the video app has become one of the most downloaded apps. It has been dominating the download lists for some time now. That has made it a target for hackers and analytics companies to check its security.
Y doesn't seem to be getting very good results. At the beginning of the year it became known that, throughout 2019, numerous security and privacy flaws were present on the social network that could have allowed information about users to be obtained.
By hacking TikTok, they have introduced videos with false information and misinformation about COVID-19
As if that wasn't enough, now a hacker has managed to hack TikTok. Thanks to security flaws and various vulnerabilities, they have managed to make fake videos appear about the Coronavirus COVID-19.
As the hackers have shown, somehow they have managed to impersonate organizations like the WHO and disseminate videos about the Coronavirus COVID-19 with disinformation. In the different videos you can see messages such as "no need to worry about the virus" or that "the Coronavirus will mysteriously disappear in April" among others.
Twit from the hackers with one of the messages
Apparently, these videos appeared in the users' feed. This means that when browsing videos in the app, the fake videos would appear below and, by identifying themselves as known and trustworthy organisms, could lead to confusion.
It must be said that, although they have hacked the app by exposing it and showing these videos, they are white hat hackers. In other words, they have shown these vulnerabilities so that TikTok take note and fix these bugs before other people with worse intentions can take advantage of these vulnerabilities.
If someone with worse intentions than these hackers took advantage of these vulnerabilities, they could include malicious links in the videos, with all that this could entail. Let's hope that TikTok fixes these security flaws as soon as possible and they don't pose any problem for its millions of users.
