Armando Cruz

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

What ??? 😳

Kaspersky blocked 47 million Android attacks in Q3 2025 alone.

one quarter.

47 million.

34 active banking malware families are currently targeting 1,243 financial institutions across 90 countries. through your phone.

Google prevented 1.75 million malicious apps from hitting the Play Store in 2025. that's the ones they caught.

iOS users face twice as many phishing attacks as Android users in enterprise environments. because they trust their devices more. attackers know this.

Pegasus runs on iPhone. Graphite runs on iPhone. zero-click exploits that don't require you to tap anything run on iPhone.

your phone knows your location, your contacts, your banking app, your messages, your face, your voice, and every app you use.

it is the most valuable target an attacker can compromise.

and 25% of mobile devices cannot upgrade to current OS versions.

they are permanently exposed to known vulnerabilities.

forever.

smartphones are not safe from malware.

in fact, they are the primary target.

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@WWE @TripleH Does anyone else feel like WWE is getting really boring?

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Well... your phone maintains a system-level notification database. Every push notification you receive iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp, email, and so on gets logged there. this database is separate from the apps themselves.

this means: deleting a message inside Signal does not delete the notification that arrived when it was sent. that notification text, who it was from, when it arrived, sometimes what it said sits in the database independently.

Law enforcement forensic extraction tools can pull text from deleted notifications, including those from secure messaging apps.

How law enforcement accesses this without the extraction tool:
→ Apple and Google both require a judge's order to hand over push notification data
→ even with that bar, Apple shares data on hundreds of users
→ governments have also used this to identify anonymous users in 2023 it emerged the DOJ quietly subpoenaed Apple and Google for notification records to unmask political dissidents

Anyway, Apple pushed iOS 26.4.2 in April 2026 specifically to address this; notifications marked for deletion should now actually be removed from the database. If you haven't updated, you're still exposed.

Android has no equivalent patch confirmed yet.

What to actually do:
→ update iOS immediately if you haven't

→ in Signal: Settings → Notifications → Show → "No Name or Message" — this stops the content from appearing in the notification at all, meaning nothing sensitive gets logged

→ disable lock screen notification previews for any sensitive app

→ audit notification access: Settings → Notifications

→ check which apps have it and revoke anything that doesn't need it

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@mcmiorandi @DuckDuckGo don't get me wrong duckduckgo is the shit but the people at brave are killing it! Go check them out and no I'm not being paid to say that about them. I'm just a big fan of there's!

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

So what OS should you actually be using if privacy matters to you?

Tails OS — runs from a USB stick. leaves zero trace on the machine. all traffic goes through Tor. when you shut it down, everything is gone. used by journalists, whistleblowers, and people with actual threat models.

Whonix — runs as two separate virtual machines. one handles Tor routing. one is your workstation. even if your machine is compromised, your real IP physically cannot leak. the architecture prevents it.

Qubes OS — every app runs in its own isolated environment. a compromised browser can't touch your files. Snowden uses it.

Hardened Linux — any distro beats Windows for privacy. needs configuration. but it doesn't have a GDID connecting to Microsoft.

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@Eromina_Mutairu hypocrite... He did the same thing to Sammi what the Rock and John Cena did to him in 2011. He became the person he criticized the most!

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@WWE Just when we thought this Vision shit was over... OMG just pull the plug on these guys bro! No one cares about this faction.

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@T3chFalcon I appreciate the advances. Microsoft has done for accessibility. However, this is disgusting to know that these fuckers can hand you over to the authorities just like that.

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@IconicChriss brief

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

The Supreme Court just ruled that geofence warrants require probable cause.

this is genuinely massive.

What a geofence warrant is

Police draw a virtual fence around a location and time. they go to a judge. the judge orders Google, Apple, or any tech company to hand over the data from every phone inside that fence during that window.

one warrant in San Francisco covered 2.5 square miles for 2.5 days. every phone in that entire area for 60 hours.

Google received a 1,500% increase in geofence requests from 2017 to 2018. then another 500% increase from 2018 to 2019. by 2020: 11,500 geofence warrants in a single year. they made up over 25% of all warrants Google received by 2023.

Chatrie v. United States. A 2019 bank robbery in Virginia. Detectives had no suspect. they got a geofence warrant covering a 17.5-acre radius for two hours. Google searched its entire Location History database and returned data on 19 people. police narrowed it to 3. Then 1.

Okello Chatrie's attorneys called it "search first, develop suspicions later."

the Supreme Court agreed.

What the ruling actually says

6-3 decision. Justice Kagan writing: "an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's location even though for only a limited time, and from a third-party tech company."

that last part is the most important line in the ruling. The government's argument was that because you "voluntarily" gave Google your location, you have no expectation of privacy. the Court called that wrong.

Geofence warrants are not banned. the Court sent the case back to determine if this specific warrant had probable cause and particularity. the ruling means police need to justify the search before casting the net. not after.

Google has already modified its Location History service so it stores data on your device, not their servers. they can no longer comply with most geofence warrants even if they wanted to.

the ruling landed the week after Google made itself technically incapable of responding to it.

crazy timing.

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@WrestleCourt no possibility, he is still under contract with AEW until 2027

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@WrestleOps I swear if Cody Rhodes becomes a four-time champ, I’m going to stop watching WWE and officially only watch AEW.
We are tired of Cody being the champion. He doesn’t do anything with it. He doesn’t make superstars like Roman reigns does when he has the championship.

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

Yo wwe universe who else agrees with this...

[EliteRockerz 𝕏 @EliteClubS0B]

Vince McMahon selling WWE to Endeavor is one of the worst things to ever happen to WWE.

Just three years in, they've completely destroyed what the company used to be and turned it into a soulless organization.

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@Kat22581 @compiledpixel @stupidtechtakes Yes, it’s open source it’s probably the best browser I have ever used. You can enjoy YouTube Netflix Disney+ Hulu HBO Max on ad supported plans and you won’t see one ad pop-up it’s awesome

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@compiledpixel @stupidtechtakes If it was a piece of malware, then why do more than 121 million people use it. Some people just make comments online without doing their research lol I am cyber security expert and Brave is a lot more trustworthy than any other browser out there.

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@EliteClubS0B Yo for reals and I was genuinely excited for that shit

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@_PWChronicle thank God The Vision is finally over! I was done with that storyline!

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Google is building a feature called "Audio Memory" for Pixel phones.

What it does: runs as a permanent background service that listens to everything around your phone. Music and "important conversations" all day, every day.

What Google says: all processing stays on-device. Nothing goes to their servers.

What Google hasn't said:
→ How long is audio or transcripts stored on your device?
→ Is this opt-in or on by default?
→ Can any of it sync to Google services later?
→ What happens if police seize your phone?

It hasn't shipped yet, but it was found hidden in Pixel 10 code. But it's coming.

Your phone already knows where you go, what you search, and who you message. Soon it may also remember every conversation you have near it.

[Armando Cruz @cyberprodigy1]

@Nishanttt05 true