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Industry veterans, chatting about computer security and online privacy. Graham Cluley • @gcluley 12:57 am, January 27 … \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

Wordle – good or bad for the world? Whatever your opinion, at least someone wants to spoil players’ fun. Meanwhile, we take a look at the threat mobile phones can pose to your mental health. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by…

He conducts research on cryptography, computer security, streaming algorithms, network algorithms, and search and classification problems of … \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

Apple has released urgent security updates for its customers, following the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities that can be used to hack into iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

A recent campaign targeting individuals in Hong Kong has leveraged at least two pieces of malware designed to target macOS systems. \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

Nasty malware abuses Microsoft e-signature service. This is because cybercriminals generally have more to gain by targeting executives and other … \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

Brata was first documented in a post from security firm Kaspersky, which reported that the Android malware had been circulating since at least January … \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

"BotenaGo" contains exploits for more than 30 vulnerabilities in multiple vendor products and is being used to spread Mirai botnet malware, … \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

The new malware cannot be removed by reformatting a hard drive or reinstalling an OS alone, says Kaspersky. \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

Bitdefender researchers say the TeaBot and FluBot malware campaigns revolve around malicious SMS messages on Android devices. \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

Apple late Wednesday pushed out an urgent iOS update with fixes for 11 documented security flaws and warned that one of the vulnerabilities “may have been actively exploited.” In a barebones advisory, Apple acknowledged the zero-day took aim at a memory corruption issue in IOMobileFrameBuffer, an oft-targeted iOS kernel extension. read more

Once installed, the malware “phoned home” to a command-and-control network run by the hacking group, which enabled them to enter the network and … \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

Similarly, anti-malware software tools may be doing a good job blocking attacks at one moment but become ineffective after a day or even a few … \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

How to remove viruses and malware from Mac. The biggest threat to our security when using a Mac is hackers and viruses. Once we identify that our … \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

The malware has added an anti-debugging tool that crashes browser tabs when researchers use code beautifying for analysis.

BRATA malware for Android continues to evolve and is now capable of doing a full phone reset and tracking GPS. Its field of activity remains that … \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

… by far the most likely way any business is going to get compromised today, because we're all getting phishing attacks every day and malware.”. \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

Researchers at security firm Eset have provided details on a brand new macOS malware that can be used to perform surveillance on a Mac. \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //

iOS 15.3 & iPadOS 15.3 fix the Safari browser flaw that could have spilled users’ browsing data, plus a zero day IOMobileFrameBuffer bug exploited in the wild.

Protesters in Hong Kong were tricked into visiting a compromised pro-democracy radio station website that delivered DazzleSpy malware. \\ This article first appeared elsewhere. You can find the original write up here //