WhatsApp Photo Filter Bug Could Have Exposed Your Data to Remote Attackers

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A now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp’s image filter feature could have been abused to send a malicious image over the messaging app to read sensitive information from the app’s …

Is Traffic Mirroring for NDR Worth the Trouble? We Argue It Isn’t

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Network Detection & Response (NDR) is an emerging technology developed to close the blind security spots left by conventional security solutions, which hackers exploited to gain a foothold in target …

FTC Bans Stalkerware App SpyFone; Orders Company to Erase Secretly Stolen Data

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday banned a stalkerware app company called SpyFone from the surveillance business over concerns that it stealthily harvested and shared data on people’s physical …

Cybercriminals Abusing Internet-Sharing Services to Monetize Malware Campaigns

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Threat actors are capitalizing on the growing popularity of proxyware platforms like Honeygain and Nanowire to monetize their own malware campaigns, once again illustrating how attackers are quick to repurpose and …

Linphone SIP Stack Bug Could Let Attackers Remotely Crash Client Devices

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Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details about a zero-click security vulnerability in Linphone Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) stack that could be remotely exploited without any action from a victim to …

QNAP Working on Patches for OpenSSL Flaws Affecting its NAS Devices

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Network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker QNAP said it’s currently investigating two recently patched security flaws in OpenSSL to determine their potential impact, adding it will release security updates should its products turn out …

Researchers Propose Machine Learning-based Bluetooth Authentication Scheme

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A group of academics has proposed a machine learning approach that uses authentic interactions between devices in Bluetooth networks as a foundation to handle device-to-device authentication reliably. Called “Verification of …