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This invasive malware isn’t just for phones—it can target your PC, too. But a new batch of algorithms aims to weed out this threat.

Lazarus continues to expand an aggressive, ongoing spy campaign, using fake Coinbase job openings to lure in victims.

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  As the data privacy landscape gets increasingly murky, app developers and device manufacturers are finding new ways to sure up users’ personal information. Of course, all users have to do is go out of their way to opt-in.  Apple recently announced a new Lockdown Mode for the iOS operating system that powers the company’s iPhones. When enabled, it turns off many of the features that attackers will exploit when targeting a mobile device with spyware. Spyware is a growing concern across the world, especially the NSO Group’s Pegasus tool.   With Lockdown Mode enabled, a hypothetical attacker would not have access to certain functions on the phone, and it blocks access to important APIs such as speech and facial recognition, which research has shown are relatively easy to bypass.  In a review of Lockdown Mode, Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch said, “...we didn’t find using our iPhone in Lockdown Mode t...

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: macOS Tags: iOS Tags: CVE-2022-32894 Tags: CVE-2022-32893 Tags: kernel privileges Tags: WebKit Tags: actively exploited Tags: watering hole Tags: exploit kit Apple has released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities previously exploited by attackers to hack iPhones, iPads, or Macs. (Read more...) The post Urgent update for macOS and iOS! Two actively exploited zero-days fixed appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Apple on Wednesday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms to remediate two zero-day vulnerabilities previously exploited by threat actors to compromise its devices. The list of issues is below - CVE-2022-32893 - An out-of-bounds issue in WebKit which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code by processing a specially crafted web content CVE-2022-32894 - An

In Sony Xperia series 1, 5, and Pro, an out of bound memory access can occur due to lack of validation of the number of frames being passed during music playback.

Google’s new mobile operating system has arrived. Take back some control with these privacy and security tips.

The North Korean APT is using a fake job posting for Coinbase in a cyberespionage campaign targeting users of both Apple and Intel-based systems.

The North Korea-backed Lazarus Group has been observed targeting job seekers with malware capable of executing on Apple Macs with Intel and M1 chipsets. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET linked it to a campaign dubbed "Operation In(ter)ception" that was first disclosed in June 2020 and involved using social engineering tactics to trick employees working in the aerospace and military sectors into

The new feature detects attempts to modify files and processes for Microsoft Defender for Endpoints on macOS.