The Coronavirus situation forced people around the world to stay in their homes. As a result, many social networks and chat services saw spikes in active users as people searched for a way to stay connected during the lockdown. The increased traffic, however, underlined security issues in some platforms, like feature, which allowed users to have access to contacts with the same custom domain name, exposing the personal data of thousands of people.

Now a duo of iOS developers known as has exploited a vulnerability in the video-sharing network TikTok to swap content and show fake COVID-19 ...