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A potential memory corruption issue was found in Capsule Workspace Android app (running on GrapheneOS). This could result in application crashing but could not be used to gather any sensitive information.

Google removed eight Android apps, with 3M cumulative downloads, from its marketplace for being infected with a Joker spyware variant.

An issue was discovered in Poly EagleEye Director II before 2.2.2.1. os.system command injection can be achieved by an admin.

Following the launch of a new "Data safety" section for the Android app on the Play Store, Google appears to be readying to remove the app permissions list from both the mobile app and the web. The change was highlighted by Esper's Mishaal Rahman earlier this week. The Data safety section, which Google began rolling out in late April 2022, is the company's answer to Apple's Privacy Nutrition

By Deeba Ahmed The Vault 7 leak included trojans, viruses, malware, zero-day exploits, malware remote control systems, and related documents dating… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CIA Whistleblower Found Guilty of Leaking Vault 7 Documents to WikiLeaks

Joshua Schulte has been convicted for his role in the Vault 7 Wikileaks data dump that exposed invasive US cyber intelligence tactics.

Gradle is a build tool. Dependency verification is a security feature in Gradle Build Tool that was introduced to allow validation of external dependencies either through their checksum or cryptographic signatures. In versions 6.2 through 7.4.2, there are some cases in which Gradle may skip that verification and accept a dependency that would otherwise fail the build as an untrusted external artifact. This can occur in two ways. When signature verification is disabled but the verification metadata contains entries for dependencies that only have a `gpg` element but no `checksum` element. When signature verification is enabled, the verification metadata contains entries for dependencies with a `gpg` element but there is no signature file on the remote repository. In both cases, the verification will accept the dependency, skipping signature verification and not complaining that the dependency has no checksum entry. For builds that are vulnerable, there are two risks. Gradle could downlo...

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F-Secure Atlant and in certain WithSecure products whereby the scanning the aeheur.dll component can crash the scanning engine. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker.

Joshua Schulte, a former programmer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking tools and exploits dubbed Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. The 33-year-old engineer had been charged in June 2018 with unauthorized disclosure of classified information and theft of classified material. Schulte also faces a separate trial on charges related to

A researcher found eight malware-laden apps in the Play Store which have been downloaded over 3 million times. The post New variant of Android SpyJoker malware removed from Play Store after 3 million+ installs appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.