Mobile Security

BADBOX 2.0 Botnet Infects Million-Plus Devices, FBI Says
BADBOX 2.0, which emerged two years after the initial iteration launched and a year after it was disrupted by vendors, has infected more than one million IoT consumer devices, prompting a warning ...
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Microsoft Launches Free Security Program for European Governments
Microsoft is offering European countries a new cybersecurity program for free to help them defend against threats from nation-states like China and Russia, ransomware gangs, and AI-powered cyber threats through greater intelligence ...
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Meta’s Secret Spyware: ‘Local Mess’ Hack Tracks You Across the Web
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Farcebok: Zuckerberg’s privacy pledge revealed as ineffectual ...
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Qualcomm Fixes Three Adreno GPU Flaws Abused in Android Attacks
Qualcomm issued patches for three zero-day vulnerabilities in its Adreno GPUs that Google threat intelligence researchers said were being exploited in "limited, targeted" attacks against Android devices ...
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Microsoft Opens Windows Update to 3rd-Party Apps
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A breath of fresh air: Security fixes and other updates will be “orchestrated” by Redmond’s own update tool ...
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Law Enforcement, Microsoft Disrupt Operations of Popular Lumma Stealer
International law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity vendors seized thousands of domains used to run the MaaS operations of the widely popular Lumma Stealer malware, which was used to facilitate ransomware, malvertising, and ...
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Warning to US Retail: ‘Scattered Spider’ Targets YOU (with DragonForce Ransomware)
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Arachnid alarm: Three major British retailers recently attacked, resulting in huge damage. Now we see the self-same scum spotlighting stores in the States ...
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As US CVE Database Fumbles, EU ‘Replacement’ Goes Live
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Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) launches this week. And not a moment too soon ...
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Apple Device Users Can File Claims in $95 Million Siri Spying Settlement
Apple earlier this year agreed to a $95 settlement to end a lawsuit filed in 2021 that claimed the company's AI-powered assistant Siri recorded users' conversations even when it wasn't prompted to ...
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SMBs Know They’re At Risk, but Most Aren’t Embracing AI
A survey by CrowdStrike finds the gap between SMB awareness of cyber threats and efforts by them to protect themselves is widening, with not enough of them spending the money needed on ...
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