S3 Ep145: Bugs With Impressive Names!
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:47:06 +0000
Fascinating fun (with a serious and educational side) – listen now! Full transcript available inside.
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Uncovering an Iranian mobile malware campaign
Credit to Author: Pankaj Kohli| Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:00:44 +0000
Sophos X-Ops researchers discover a cluster of credential-harvesting apps targeting Iranian bank customers
Read more60,000 Androids have stalkerware-type app Spyhide installed
Categories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: stalkerware Tags: carew Tags: spyhide A hacktivist was able to grab all the data from a stalkerware operator and shared the method and the findings. |
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Read moreRansomware groups claim responsibility for double-attack on Yamaha
Categories: Business Tags: ransomware Tags: blackbyte Tags: Akira Tags: group Tags: compromised Tags: data Tags: blackmail Tags: extortion Tags: attack Tags: Yamaha Tags: Canada Tags: music Tags: audio We take a look at claims that Yamaha has been compromised by two unrelated ransomware groups. |
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Read moreRussia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:29:40 +0000
The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov, the former founder and CEO of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity firms. Sachkov, 37, has been detained for nearly two years under charges that the Kremlin has kept classified and hidden from public view, and he joins a growing roster of former Russian cybercrime fighters who are now serving hard time for farcical treason convictions.
Read moreTwitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down
Credit to Author: Selena Larson| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000
After scammers duped a friend with a hacked Twitter account and a “deal” on a MacBook, I enlisted the help of a fellow threat researcher to trace the criminals’ offline identities.
Read moreChatGPT Has a Plug-In Problem
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Third-party plug-ins boost ChatGPT’s capabilities. But security researchers say they add an extra layer of risk.
Read moreInto the tank with Nitrogen
Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:00:04 +0000
The element originally known as “foul air” stinks up computers as a new initial-access campaign exhibiting some uncommon techniques
Read moreWas Steve Jobs right about this?
Perhaps Steve Jobs was right to limit the amount of time he let his children use iPhones and iPads — a tradition Apple maintains with its Screen Time tool, which lets parents set limits on device use. Now, an extensive UNESCO report suggests that letting kids spend too much time on these devices can be bad for them.
Baked in inequality and lack of social skills
That’s the headline claim, but there’s a lot more to the report in terms of exploring data privacy, misuse of tech, and failed digital transformation experiments.
Zenbleed: How the quest for CPU performance could put your passwords at risk
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:01:47 +0000
“You need to turn on a special setting to stop the code you wrote to stop the code you wrote to improve performance from reducing performance from reducing security.”
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