New from 404 Media: inside a global phone spy tool that takes data from ads inside normal apps to monitor billions. Company removed videos while I was asking questions; we archived in the article. Google has now cut-off a connected company in response.
https://t.co/9CvHyQ2mul
I did not know, but I guess I did imagine, that car manufacturers were intercepting and sharing text messages with law enforcement. Seems like a pretty terrible idea, unless there’s more to this story. https://t.co/HwzjYZijH9
Earlier this year @AmnestyTech and @_clem1 from Google TAG found an in-the-wild iPhone zero day full chain. Today I’m publishing my analysis of the Safari sandbox escape component, the first in-the-wild sample to break into the new Safari GPU process.
.@_clem1 discovered another ITW 0-day in use by a commercial surveillance vendor: CVE-2023-5217. Thank you to Chrome for releasing a patch in TWO 🤯day!!
https://t.co/QhzJonwLXi
Who needs a 0-click when you have MITM? ✨ Working with @billmarczak & @citizenlab we discovered 3 iOS and 1 Chrome 0-day from Intellexa, used to install Predator spyware in Egypt 🇪🇬
https://t.co/5KF5v4xEnr
🚨SCOOP: My new @Haaretzcom investigation reveals new Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the heart of the online economy - ads - not just for mass surveillance, but also to hack phones 👇
https://t.co/TPfBO1SZHP
New—hackers have access to a powerful chain of data that lets them dox nearly anyone in US for $15. With credit cards your address goes to the credit bureaus. That is then sold to companies, and the hackers tap into that. Targets include Musk, Rogan, Biden https://t.co/ljCCCj3fWb
Need to access those precious encrypted kitten pics but you can't unlock your phone ? Don't worry, in this blog post @max_r_b and @DamianoMelotti will take you in a journey to the depths of #Android's file-based encryption so you know what to do.
https://t.co/acROY5cEGq
Our next blogpost on #iOSTriangulation (https://t.co/OnjtckIn5i) is finally out. Today we are ready to share details about the final payload used in the attack, which is a #spyware implant that we dubbed #TriangleDB@bzvr_@2igosha [1/3]
A while back, I stumbled upon a file I consider the largest piece of evidence revealing how hundreds of data brokers trade personal data on everyone, including very sensitive data, globally.
Massive investigation by @themarkup and German @netzpolitik_org:
https://t.co/uJ7MpmIJ69
India seems to be the new destination for “Hacking for hire” operatives. A lack of ethics and legal action allows these people to operate freely. I’m sure a lot of them are even hand in glove with the government.
https://t.co/sOVjqSguB9
Hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards, used in gaming and other high-performance computers, have a backdoor in their firmware that invisibly downloads code to the machine at startup—and does so insecurely, leaving the feature open to abuse. https://t.co/pHNj6GN1ue
The recording of my @offensive_con talk about eSIM is online: Embedded Threats: A Deep Dive into the Attack Surface and Security Implications of eSIM Technology
https://t.co/CMtchgCfvn
#OffensiveCon23
In which we describe one of our incident response engagements where five different actors were observed exploiting the same victim for completely different purposes. https://t.co/QuyofhLvOq
☢️MSI leaked code signing certificate already abused by Threat Actors (expires in 2024).
I've collected 9 recently leaked certificates to cover up in upcoming Modern Initial Access training sessions🔥
https://t.co/vhHKWITJaC
👾 Already weaponised in Red Macros Factory 1.8!