A TikTok security flaw can cause your videos to be deleted

Have you received a TikTok message recently? Have you noticed changes in your profile that you have not carried out? Your account may have been hacked And the fact is that TikTok has several security flaws or vulnerabilities that can turn your account on the social video network upside down. Hopefully, if you've recently updated the app, the issues should be resolved.

Beware of links

The alarm goes off from security firm Check Point Research, which found and reported several security issues in the TikTok app in November . In his investigation, they discovered that a message from the TikTok company itself could be simulated, which includes a link to a malicious website. A phishing technique, which consists of imitating official services, with which to take the victim user to a web page in which to attack their account.

This way hackers would have access to parts of the TikTok user's profile. Enough to be able to delete their uploaded videos, upload new ones content on its behalf or change configurations and settings of it without any kind of permission.

How to avoid this problem

Apparently, the security firm Check Point Research notified already in November to the mother company of TikTok to make them aware of their issues.Something that they have confirmed from TikTok itself, as confirmed in The Verge. In other words, the problem was known and corrected.

According to TikTok itself, the security firm confirmed that the vulnerabilities of the application were resolved in the latest version released That is, that to make sure that everything stays as it should and that your user profile is not compromised, at least because of those same bugs, you just have to download the latest version from the Google Play Store or from the App Store.

If you have been affected by this problem, or have noticed that your profile has suffered involuntary changes, the best thing you can do, besides keeping your application updated, is change your profile password A new protection will ruin the plans of any hacker. Or at least it should make it more difficult for them to access your profile or parts of it to handle them as they please.

Update

From the TikTok security team they communicate that the company «is committed to protecting user data. Like many organizations, we encourage security researchers to privately disclose zero-day vulnerabilities to us. Prior to public disclosure, CheckPoint agreed that all reported issues were patched in the latest version of our app. We hope this successful resolution will foster future collaboration with security researchers.”