Google patches “in-the-wild” Chrome zero-day – update now!
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:55:14 +0000
Running Chrome? Do the “Help-About-Update” dance move right now, just to be sure…
Read moreS3 Ep90: Chrome 0-day again, True Cybercrime, and a 2FA bypass [Podcast + Transcript]
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 14:46:30 +0000
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Read moreGoogle to delete location data of trips to abortion clinics
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:39:11 +0000
Google upped it privacy efforts by deleting location history of visits to abortion clinics.
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Read moreGoogle patches “in-the-wild” Chrome zero-day – update now!
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:55:14 +0000
Running Chrome? Do the “Help-About-Update” dance move right now, just to be sure…
Read moreFCC commissioner wants Apple, Google to remove TikTok from App Stores
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:34:00 -0700
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has written to Apple and Google to request that both companies remove the incredibly popular TikTok app from their stores, citing a threat to national security.
Is your data going TikTok?
Carr warns the app collects huge quantities of data and cited a recent report that claimed the company has accessed sensitive data collected from Americans. He argues that TikTok’s, “pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S. data…puts it out of compliance,” with App Store security and privacy policies.
Hermit spyware is deployed with the help of a victim’s ISP
Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:03:54 +0000
A new commercial spyware for governments, called Hermit, has spotted in the wild. It affects iOS and all Android versions.
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Read moreThe Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:33:31 +0000
On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy’s founder is one of the men being sued by Google.
Read moreBrave Search wants to replace Google’s biased search results with yours
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:23:53 +0000
Brave Search, the privacy search engine you may not have heard of, is a year old and growing fast.
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Read moreItalian spyware firm is hacking into iOS and Android devices, Google says
Credit to Author: Shweta Sharma| Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:51:00 -0700
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has identified Italian vendor RCS Lab as a spyware offender, developing tools that are being used to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities to effect attacks on iOS and Android mobile users in Italy and Kazakhstan.
According to a Google blog post on Thursday, RCS Lab uses a combination of tactics, including atypical drive-by downloads as initial infection vectors. The company has developed tools to spy on the private data of the targeted devices, the post said.
Update now! Microsoft patches Follina, and many other security updates
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:17:05 +0000
Patch Tuesday for June 2022 brought a fix for Follina and many other security vulnerabilities. Time to figure out what needs to be prioritized.
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