During our security research we found that smart phones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm. This data is sent without user consent, unencrypted, and even when using a Google-free Android distribution. This is possible because the Qualcomm chipset itself sends the data, circumventing any potential Android operating system setting and protection mechanisms. Affected smart phones are Sony Xperia XA2 and likely the Fairphone and many more Android phones which use popular Qualcomm chips.
Here's an article from a French anarchist describing how his (encrypted) laptop was seized after he was arrested, and material from the encrypted partition has since been entered as evidence against him. His encryption password was supposedly greater than 20 characters and included a mixture of cases, numbers, and punctuation, so in the absence of any sort of opsec failures this implies that even relatively complex passwords can now be brute forced, and we should be transitioning to even more secure passphrases.
Or does it? Let's go into what LUKS is doing in the first place. The actual data is typically encrypted with AES, an extremely popular and well-tested encryption algorithm. AES has no known major weaknesses and is not considered to be practically brute-forceable - at least, assuming you have a random key. Unfortunately it's not really practical to ask a user to type in 128 bits of binary every time they want to unlock their drive, so another approach has to be taken.
How links between ‘hacktivists’ and official military are becoming blurred on both sides in the war.
CVE-2023-1671 is a pre-authenticated command injection in Sophos Web Appliance. In this blog post, VulnCheck researchers analyze the vulnerability and develop a proof of concept (PoC) for it.
Hackers first compromised a different software maker and embedded malware in one of its programs. 3CX got compromised when a worker downloaded that program. It's not known why worker downloaded it.
Tallinn, Estonia – From 18 to 21 April, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) is hosting Locked Shields 2023, the world’s largest live-fire cyber defense exercise. Over 3,000 participants from 38 nations are taking part in the exercise, which involves protecting real computer systems from real-time attacks and simulating tactical and strategic decisions in critical situations.
North Korean-linked operation affected more organizations beyond 3CX, including two critical infrastructure organizations in the energy sector.
Our team is tracking in-the-wild exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities against PaperCut MF/NG which allow for unauthenticated remote code execution due to an authentication bypass.
Learn how APT group, BlueNoroff, targets Apple with malware variant to compromise macOS devices.
We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP software provider 3CX, a complex, lengthy intrusion that has the makings of a cyberpunk spy novel: North Korean hackers using legions of fake executive accounts…
Similarities with newly discovered Linux malware used in Operation DreamJob corroborate the theory that the 3CX attack was carried out by Lazarus.
A software supply chain attack led to another software supply chain attack.
Web3 technologies are seeing widespread adoption — including by TAs. We discuss Web3 technology InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), and malicious use of it.
Driver based attacks against security products are on the rise
No worries, outsourcer only handles government tech contracts worth billions
The first four of these CVEs affect a function in libntp that is only used by ntpq, but not by ntpd. The last CVE affects the driver for a hardware clock (GPS receiver), so ntpd might be vulnerable...
in2al5d p3in4er is a highly evasive new loader that has a detection ratio of 0 on VirusTotal. We explain how it works, and how to prevent it.
Discovery of a macOS variant of LockBit has caused alarm, but how serious a threat is it? We explore the malware and the threat of ransomware on Apple Macs.
Apple has fixed the three exploits used to deploy the Pegasus spyware, which did not require any interaction from the target.
We’d like to provide an update on our investigation into the suspicious activity detected in our Fortra GoAnywhere MFT solution. Working with Unit 42, we have completed our investigation and have compiled a factual summary of the investigation, as well as continuous improvement actions Fortra is taking to further strengthen our systems and recommended actions customers can take to secure their data and improve their security posture using available features in the GoAnywhere MFT solution.
