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Four major wireless carriers have been fined by the FCC for sharing access to customers’ location data without consent.

March 29, 2024 is a day that will hardly be forgotten by the open source community: Andres Freund disclosed his findings about the compromise in the xz compression library, which would enable an attacker to silently gain access to a targeted affected system. How did that coordination work under the hood? In this article we will give a behind the scenes glimpse into what this looked like at Red Hat.DiscoveryOn Wednesday, March 27, Andres contacted the Debian security team via their contact email ([email protected]) and let them know about the oddities he found in a SSH slowdown when using a n

Google on Monday revealed that almost 200,000 app submissions to its Play Store for Android were either rejected or remediated to address issues with access to sensitive data such as location or SMS messages over the past year. The tech giant also said it blocked 333,000 bad accounts from the app storefront in 2023 for attempting to distribute malware or for repeated policy violations. "In 2023,

By Deeba Ahmed New Android malware alert! Brokewell steals data, takes over devices & targets your bank. Learn how this sneaky malware works & what you can do to protect yourself. Stop Brokewell before it stops you! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Chrome Updates Hide Android Brokewell Malware Targeting Your Bank

By Waqas The official website of Samourai Wallet has been seized, while its official app on the Apple Store and Google Play has been removed. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Feds Bust Privacy-Centric Samourai Wallet Over BTC Money Laundering

Fake browser updates are being used to push a previously undocumented Android malware called Brokewell. "Brokewell is a typical modern banking malware equipped with both data-stealing and remote-control capabilities built into the malware," Dutch security firm ThreatFabric said in an analysis published Thursday. The malware is said to be in active development,

Eight out of nine apps that people use to input Chinese characters into mobile devices have weakness that allow a passive eavesdropper to collect keystroke data.

By Waqas Popular keyboard apps leak user data! Citizen Lab reports 8 out of 9 Android IMEs expose keystrokes. Change yours & protect passwords! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Popular Keyboard Apps Leak User Data: Billion Potentially Exposed

### Summary when jadx parses a resource file, there is an escape problem with the style file, which can overwrite other files in the directory when saving the decompile result. Although I don't think this vulnerability realizes path traversal in the true sense of the word , I reported it anyway ### Details I see that getResAlias does something with the filename. ```java private String getResAlias(int resRef, String origKeyName, @Nullable FieldNode constField) { ``` but type style will return the original filename directly.  so our goal is to take a malicious file that was originally of type raw, modify its type to style, trick jadx into #### step1 create an android project using androidstudio and create a raw folder with the name attack_file_sayhiiiiiiiiiiiii, it doesn't matter what the content is!  generate an initial APK #### s...

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