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Mediatek Eavesdropping Bug Impacts 30% of All Android Smartphones MediaTek fixed security vulnerabilities that could have allowed attackers to eavesdrop on Android phone calls, execute commands, or elevate their privileges to a higher level. MediaTek is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, with their chips present in 43% of all smartphones as of the
Threat Actors Find and Compromise Exposed Services in 24 hours Researchers set up 320 honeypots to see how quickly threat actors would target exposed cloud services and report that 80% of them were compromised in under 24 hours. Malicious actors are constantly scanning the Internet for exposed services that could be exploited to access internal
FBI Warns of Phishing Targeting High-profile Brands’ Customers The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned today of recently detected spear-phishing email campaigns targeting customers of “brand-name companies” in attacks known as brand phishing. This warning was issued as a public service announcement through the bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center platform in coordination with DHS’ Cybersecurity
Apple Sues Spyware-maker NSO Group, Notifies iOS Exploit Targets Apple has filed a lawsuit against Pegasus spyware-maker NSO Group and its parent company for the targeting and spying of Apple users with surveillance tech. The company says the state-sponsored attacks that used NSO’s spyware only targeted “a very small number” of individuals, across multiple platforms,