Spyware Vendor Hacked
September 1 2023A Brazilian spyware app vendor was hacked by activists:
In an undated note seen by TechCrunch, the unnamed hackers described how they found and exploited several security vulnerabilities that...
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Security Risks of New .zip and .mov Domains
May 19 2023Researchers are worried about Google’s .zip and .mov domains, because they are confusing. Mistaking a URL for a filename could be a security vulnerability.
Read moreMicrosoft Secure Boot Bug
May 17 2023Microsoft is currently patching a zero-day Secure-Boot bug.
The BlackLotus bootkit is the first-known real-world malware that can bypass Secure Boot protections, allowing for the execution of malicious code...
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SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier
May 3 2023New reporting from Wired reveals that the Department of Justice detected the SolarWinds attack six months before Mandiant detected it in December 2020, but didn’t realize what it...
Read moreSecurity Vulnerabilities in Snipping Tools
March 28 2023Both Google’s Pixel’s Markup Tool and the Windows Snipping Tool have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited out of images.
Read moreMass Ransomware Attack
March 23 2023A vulnerability in a popular data transfer tool has resulted in a mass ransomware attack:
TechCrunch has learned of dozens of organizations that used the affected GoAnywhere file transfer...
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Attacking Machine Learning Systems
February 6 2023The field of machine learning (ML) security—and corresponding adversarial ML—is rapidly advancing as researchers develop sophisticated techniques to perturb, disrupt, or steal the ML model or data. It’s a...
Read moreSecurity Analysis of Threema
January 19 2023A group of Swiss researchers have published an impressive security analysis of Threema.
We provide an extensive cryptographic analysis of Threema, a Swiss-based encrypted messaging application with more than...
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Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles
January 6 2023This group has found a ton of remote vulnerabilities in all sorts of automobiles. It’s enough to make you want to buy a car that is not Internet-connected. Unfortunately, that...
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