A significant proportion of cyber incidents are linked to supply chain attacks, and this proportion is constantly growing. Over the past year, we have seen a wide variety of methods used in such attacks, ranging from creation of malicious but seemingly legitimate open-source libraries or delayed attacks in such seemingly legitimate libraries, to the simplest […]

On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) updated its list of insecure equipment, outlining its reasons for adding all consumer-grade routers made outside the US. Effectively, this would stop foreign-made routers from being imported unless their manufacturers obtain an exemption, due to what the FCC called an “unacceptable risk to the national security of the […]

Millions of crime tips may have been exposed after a hacker group claims to have compromised systems used by Crime Stoppers programs and other organizations worldwide.  The incident centers on P3 Global Intel, a Texas-based provider of cloud-based tip and intelligence management software owned by Navigate360. The hacktivists, known as “Internet Yiff Machine,” submitted the […]

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It’s only on rare occasions that anyone pays attention to the acknowledgment section of a vulnerability disclosure. But for the person who found the bug, it’s often the conclusion of hours of work, trial and error, searching for recognition, and finally seeing the vulnerability get patched. Bug hunters are doing us all a huge favor […]

Scam compounds in Southeast Asia have already become modern slave farms, trapping victims and forcing many of them to become scammers for them. Now they’ve added another type of worker to the mix: so-called AI models. These professional scammers conduct video calls with their targets, charming them into handing over their cash. As reported in WIRED this week, recruitment ads describe […]

In a Public Service Announcement (PSA) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warn the public about ongoing Russian-linked phishing campaigns that aim to gain access to messaging accounts. Earlier this month we wrote about a large‑scale phishing campaign aimed at hijacking Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to […]

We’ve identified a huge social-engineering campaign designed to steer people into online gambling sites under the impression they’re installing a legitimate app. We’re calling it FriendlyDealer. It’s been observed across at least 1,500 domains, each hosting a website that impersonates the Google Play or Apple App Store. Users think they’re downloading a gambling app from […]

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Google has announced the introduction of Advanced Flow, designed to let Android users install apps from unverified developers more safely than before. This process is known as sideloading. It means installing an app on your device from somewhere other than the Google Play store, usually by downloading and opening its installation file yourself.​ Right now, […]