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Virtual reality developer Victoria VR has announced that it is integrating OpenAI into its builder. The move makes Victoria VR the first web3 project to bring AI capabilities to virtual reality, streamlining VR content creation.

Victoria’s VR AI Builder enables anyone to design their own virtual realities, games, and applications with no programming knowledge required. This capability empowers users to create and monetize their own virtual spaces. Use cases include games, digital shops, interactive showrooms, virtual offices, online schools or even whole new VR worlds.

The integration of OpenAI into Victoria’s VR AI Builder will unlock a host of new possibilities for content creation. It will enable users to create a rich variety of custom content including in-game items and virtual accessories. From creating characters to constructing entire metaverses, the Victoria VR builder powered by OpenAI will unleash a wave of innovation and provide greater personalization within virtual worlds.

OpenAI prompts will allow users to easily create bespoke items and content with no coding required. As a result, rich metaverses and digital spaces can be created on demand. The integration of OpenAI, scheduled for late 2024, will be followed by other AI integrations, providing creators with broad scope for constructing original VR content.

In addition to OpenAI, Victoria’s VR AI Builder will integrate AI technologies such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. Creators can leverage these powerful tools to elevate their ideas and apps. This will expedite the creation process, allowing VR-powered digital worlds to be rapidly manifested.

The rollout of AI capabilities within Victoria VR will support the creation of 3D assets as well as entire 3D environments. Through integrating OpenAI, Victoria VR will empower users to create immersive virtual worlds whose only limits are their imagination. It will support mini-games and metaverse applications created using Victoria’s VR AI Builder.

By providing simple prompts, users can instruct the AI to create shops, malls, and entire worlds, rendered in detail and to their exact specifications. This will spark a stream of VR custom content, transforming users into creators and unleashing unique applications. Content is rendered as NFTs that the creator controls, supporting full asset ownership.

Victoria VR features a virtual reality metaverse defined by ultra-realistic graphics and gameplay. Available on the Apple Vision Pro, Oculus Quest 3 and others, Victoria VR combines the power of virtual reality with the unique benefits provided by web3 technology.

The complexity of VR development currently places it beyond the reach of most people. It requires advanced coding and design skills to add textures, create models, and apply animation. The Victoria VR builder will eliminate the barriers to virtual reality development, paving the way for new metaverse experiences powered by the $VR tokens.

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Victoria VR is a realistic Virtual Reality metaverse with VR AI Builder that allows anyone to create and trade VR content as NFTs. Powered by Unreal Engine, Victoria VR leverages the latest virtual reality technology. Its metaverse promises immersive entertainment, discovery and learning in a world full of VR experiences and opportunities. Victoria VR is the first web3 metaverse to be available within the Apple Vision Pro. Learn more: Victoriavr.com.

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Ransomware groups tore into manufacturing other parts of the OT sector in 2023, and a few attacks caused eight- and nine-figure damages. But worse is yet to come in 2024.

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At least 68 cyberattacks last year caused physical consequences to operational technology (OT) networks at more than 500 sites worldwide — in some cases causing $10 million to $100 million in damages.

Unsurprisingly, these weren't Stuxnet-like events, but the opposite.

According to a new report from industrial control system (ICS) vendor Waterfall Security Solutions, which studied real-world cyberattacks on OT organizations, most of the hackers known to be targeting the OT sector these days are hacktivists. And the majority of disruptions are not caused by such direct manipulation of OT systems but are downstream consequences of IT-based attacks, most often involving ransomware.

That doesn't mean, though, that the impacts are any less severe. Incidents involving Johnson Controls and Clorox last year ended up costing those companies around $27 million and $49 million, respectively. One cyberattack that led to the temporary suspension of operations at MKS Instruments in Massachusetts cost $200 million, and one of its suppliers — California-based Applied Materials Inc. — reported losing another $250 million as a result.

The number of attacks with physical consequences increased by nearly 20% last year, according to the report.

**IT Attacks With OT Consequences**

In the past decade and a half, only around a quarter of cyberattacks with OT consequences were caused by actually hitting the OT network, according to the report Waterfall published in collaboration with OT incident threat database ICS STRIVE.

"A large fraction of attacks that caused OT consequences did so by compromising machines in the IT network exclusively," explains Andrew Ginter, vice president of industrial security for Waterfall, and a co-author of the report. "OT was often shut down in 'an abundance of caution' because the business was not willing to keep running powerful, dangerous physical processes with compromise only one or two network hops away."

After its attack last March, for example, the German manufacturer Hahn Group GmbH switched off all of its systems as a safety precaution. A full, clean restoration of its systems took weeks thereafter. A number of other manufacturers last year followed that same playbook, even when safety wasn't at risk, in order to contain damage to further systems, sites, and customers.

"OT was also often shut down because physical operations needed facilities on IT networks that ransomware had crippled — e.g., container-tracking systems for shipping or passenger signage for large rail stations," Ginter points out.

One prime case occurred last January, when UK Royal Mail printers were disabled and hijacked to print LockBit ransom notes. Mail export services were briefly suspended nationwide, in an event that ended up costing £42 million.

"These dependencies are something many OT practitioners do not think about," Ginter explains. An IT network compromise can also affect physical operations, even if an OT network is secured, if the OT process rely on processes in the IT network.

**Cyber Threat to Water Treatment**

More than half of publicly reported cyberattacks with OT consequences in 2023 affected the manufacturing sector. But if there's one sector to worry about more than the rest it's, arguably, water.

Late last November, around 180 households in the Irish villages of Binghamstown and Drum lost water for two days, thanks to a loss of water pressure at a local pumping station. The cause was a cyberattack likely carried out by Iran's Cyber Av3ngers, part of a wider campaign targeting Unitronics pump controllers.

Though such stories are still rare, water facilities combine a dangerous mix of low difficulty and high impact for hackers.

"In the USA, the vast majority of the more than 20,000 drinking water treatment utilities are tiny. Minute. The vast majority of the more than 200,000 wastewater treatment systems — same thing. And realistically, with whatever budget these utilities have, almost all of it goes to people with trucks and backhoes digging holes in the ground," Ginter explains. "Couple that with continued pressure to automate those water systems to reduce costs — a lot of these systems are regulated \[because they're local monopolies\], and every regulator wants to reduce costs and reduce rates, so there is constant pressure to automate. All modern automation involves computers, meaning more targets for cyberattacks."

These systems have no security budget, so with the increased threat of hacktivist attacks and pressure to automate their operations, they are in peril, he notes, creating "a growing problem for all of the small communities in the nation."

**About the Author(s)**

Nate Nelson is a freelance writer based in New York City. Formerly a reporter at Threatpost, he contributes to a number of cybersecurity blogs and podcasts. He writes "Malicious Life" -- an award-winning Top 20 tech podcast on Apple and Spotify -- and hosts every other episode, featuring interviews with leading voices in security. He also co-hosts "The Industrial Security Podcast," the most popular show in its field.

Cyberattacks Wreaking Physical Disruption on the Rise

Plus: Microsoft patches over 60 vulnerabilities, Mozilla fixes two Firefox zero-day bugs, Google patches 40 issues in Android, and more.

It’s time to check your software updates. March has seen the release of important patches for Apple’s iOS, Google’s Chrome, and its privacy-conscious competitor Firefox. Bugs have also been squashed by enterprise software giants including Cisco, VMware, and SAP.

Here’s what you need to know about the security updates issued in March.

**Apple iOS**

Apple made up for a quiet February by issuing two separate patches in March. At the start of the month, the iPhone maker released iOS 17.4, fixing over 40 flaws including two issues already being used in real-life attacks.

Tracked as CVE-2024-23225, the first bug in the iPhone Kernel could allow an attacker to bypass memory protections. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited,” the iPhone maker said on its support page.

Tracked as CVE-2024-23296, the second flaw, in RTKit, the real-time operating system used in devices including AirPods, could also allow an adversary to bypass Kernel memory protections.

Later in March, Apple released a second software update, iOS 17.4.1, this time fixing two flaws in its iPhone software, both tracked as CVE-2024-1580. Using the issues patched in iOS 17.4.1, an attacker could execute code if they convinced someone to interact with an image.

Soon after issuing iOS 17.4.1, Apple released patches for its other devices to fix the same bugs: Safari 17.4.1, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 and macOS Ventura 13.6.6.

**Google Chrome**

March was another hectic month for Google, which patched multiple flaws in its Chrome browser. Mid-way through the month, Google released 12 patches, including a fix for CVE-2024-2625, an object-lifecycle issue in V8 with a high severity rating.

Medium-severity issues include CVE-2024-2626, an out-of-bounds read bug in Swiftshader; CVE-2024-2627, a use-after-free flaw in Canvas; and CVE-2024-2628, an inappropriate implementation issue in Downloads.

At the end of the month, Google issued seven security fixes, including a patch for a critical use-after-free flaw in ANGLE tracked as CVE-2024-2883. Two further use-after-free bugs, tracked as CVE-2024-2885 and CVE-2024-2886, were given a high-severity rating. Meanwhile, CVE-2024-2887 is a type-confusion flaw in WebAssembly.

The last two issues were exploited at the Pwn2Own 2024 hacking contest, so you should update your Chrome browser ASAP.

**Mozilla Firefox**

Mozilla’s Firefox had a busy March, after patching two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited at Pwn2Own. CVE-2024-29943 is an out-of-bounds access bypass issue, while CVE-2024-29944 is a privileged JavaScript Execution flaw in Event Handlers that could lead to sandbox escape. Both issues are rated as having a critical impact.

Earlier in the month, Mozilla released Firefox 124 to address 12 security issues, including CVE-2024-2605, a sandbox-escape flaw affecting Windows operating systems. An attacker could have leveraged the Windows Error Reporter to run arbitrary code on the system, escaping the sandbox, Mozilla said.

CVE-2024-2615 sees critical-rated memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 124. “Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption, and we presume that with enough effort \[they\] could have been exploited to run arbitrary code,” Mozilla said.

**Google Android**

Google has released its March Android Security Bulletin, fixing nearly 40 issues in its mobile operating system, including two critical bugs in its system component. CVE-2024-0039 is a remote code-execution flaw, while CVE-2024-23717 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability.

“The most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in the System component that could lead to remote code execution with no additional execution privileges needed,” Google said in its advisory.

You Should Update Apple iOS and Google Chrome ASAP

Plus: “MFA bombing” attacks target Apple users, Israel deploys face recognition tech on Gazans, AI gets trained to spot tent encampments, and OSINT investigators find fugitive Amond Bundy.

The saga of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continued this week after the UK’s high court ordered a delay in his extradition to the United States. Assange faces 18 charges in the US, including 17 alleged violations of the Espionage Act—charges that have alarmed journalism watchdogs. The two judges who issued the ruling said in a summary of their decision that the US must offer further assurances that Assange’s First Amendment rights will be respected and that he will not face the death penalty if convicted.

The University of Cambridge’s medical school is still recovering from “malicious activity” which the school first detected last month. The incident impacted IT services provided by Cambridge’s Clinical School Computing Service, and several websites were knocked offline. While the university also recently suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack, allegedly carried out by the hacker group Anonymous Sudan, it’s unclear if the two incidents are related, and the university has not yet clarified the nature of the “malicious activity.”

US and UK authorities this week announced sanctions and charges against members of APT31, a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group. Also known as Violet Typhoon or Judgement Panda, APT31 hackers have for the past 14 years targeted critics and political enemies around the world to conduct espionage campaigns, according to the US Department of Justice.

Finally, WIRED discovered a trove of information left online by a location data broker that reveals sensitive details about the visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious “pedophile island.” The data includes more than 11,000 precise coordinates, as many as 166 of which pinpoint the likely homes and workplaces of visitors who live in the continental United States.

But that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.

A few rules of thumb can vastly increase your online safety: Don’t click on links or open attachments from strangers. Double-check the sender of emails and other messages to ensure they’re not surreptitious phishing attempts. And be sure a shipping company really is who it claims to be rather than a cybercriminal gang plotting to hijack a truckload of your yogurt and hold it for ransom.

The last of those lessons was highlighted by _The Wall Street Journal_ this week in a story about a troubling form of online fraud: Fraudsters are insinuating themselves into so-called load boards, the online platforms that manufacturers, shipping companies, and the brokers who work with them use to make deals for transporting goods via truck to retailers or other destinations. By spoofing the identity of a carrier—the companies that employ truck drivers to pick up goods—fraudsters can trick brokers who arrange those deals into handing over large amounts of cargo. The criminals can then either complete the deal with a legit carrier at a lower price and pocket the difference, or simply steal the cargo.

In the case of one $50,000 load of Danone yogurt and plant-based milk, the thieves opted for the latter. The broker who had arranged the deal discovered that the fraudsters had spoofed the motor carrier number, a unique identifier, for the broker’s intended trucking company. Then they rerouted their yogurt booty from its intended destination in Florida to a warehouse in Pennsylvania. The brokerage describes receiving emails and even a phone call from an Armenian number demanding a $40,000 ransom. (The brokers refused to pay and collected an insurance payout instead. What happened with the yogurt—and exactly how much yogurt a single gang of Armenian cybercriminals can feasibly consume before it spoils—remains unclear.)

The Journal’s story reveals that cargo hijacking fraud remains a serious problem—one that cost $500 million in 2023, quadruple the year before. Victims say load board operators need to do more to verify users’ identities, and that law enforcement and regulators also need to do more to address the thefts.

**Apple Users Targeted With “MFA Bombing” Hacking Tactic**

Multifactor authentication (MFA) has served as a crucial safeguard against hackers for years. In Apple’s case, it can require a user to tap or click “allow” on an iPhone or Apple Watch before their password can be changed, an important protection against fraudulent password resets. But KrebsOnSecurity reports this week that some hackers are weaponizing those MFA push alerts, bombarding users with hundreds of requests to force them to allow a password reset—or at the very least, deal with a very annoying disruption of their device. Even when a user does reject all those password reset alerts, the hackers have, in some cases, called up the user and pretended to be a support person—using identifying information from online databases to fake their legitimacy—to social engineer them into resetting their password. The solution to the problem appears to be “rate-limiting,” a standard security feature that limits the number of times someone can try a password or attempt a sensitive settings change in a certain time period. In fact, the hackers may be exploiting a bug in Apple’s rate limiting to allow their rapid-fire attempts, though the company didn’t respond to Krebs’ request for comment.

**Israel Deploys Controversial Facial Recognition Tech in Its Surveillance of Gazans**

Israel has long been accused of using Palestinians as subjects of experimental surveillance and security technologies that it then exports to the world. In the case of the country’s months-long response to Hamas’ October 7 massacre—a response that has killed 31,000 Palestinian civilians and displaced millions more from their homes—that surveillance now includes using controversial and arguably unreliable facial recognition tools among the Palestinian population. _The New York Times_ reports that Israel’s military intelligence has adopted a facial recognition tool built by a private tech firm called Corsight, and has used it in its attempts to identify members of Hamas—particularly those involved in the October 7 attack—despite concerns that the tech was sometimes faulty and produced false positives. In one case, for instance, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was pulled out of a crowd by soldiers who had somehow identified him by name, before he was beat, accused of being a member of Hamas, and interrogated, before soldiers then told him the interrogation had been a “mistake.”

**AI Cameras Trained to Spot Encampments of Unhoused People**

In other dystopian AI news, _The Guardian_ this week reported on a government project in San Jose, California, that used AI-enabled computer vision technology to identify encampments and vehicles lived in by unhoused people. In the project, video recorded from a car around the city is given to participating companies including Ash Sensors, Sensen.AI, Xloop Digital, Blue Dome Technologies, and CityRover, which use it as training data to develop a system that can recognize tents or vehicles that people might be living in. While the project has been described as a way to identify and help people in need, advocates for the unhoused in San Jose say they’re concerned the data is likely to instead be given to the police, and thus as just another form of surveillance targeting the most vulnerable inhabitants of the city.

**Bellingcat Investigators Find Far-Right Fugitive Ammon Bundy**

Radical libertarian Ammon Bundy, a well-known figure on the far right, has been on the run since last year, charged with contempt of court after being ordered to pay $50 million to an Idaho hospital he’d accused of child trafficking and leading a campaign of harassment that targeted its staff. Then last month, he posted a provocative video to YouTube titled, “Want to Know Where Ammon Bundy Is?” The open source detectives at Bellingcat apparently did: They found enough evidence in Bundy’s videos to convincingly reveal his location. Bellingcat was able to use material like a school calendar in the background of one shot, a mountain range in another, and a highway sign in a third to place Bundy in a certain county in southern Utah. When contacted by Bellingcat, Bundy denied hiding and wrote, a little confusingly, that “at any time peace officers could find me if they wish.”

Yogurt Heist Reveals a Rampant Form of Online Fraud

Malicious ads and bogus websites are acting as a conduit to deliver two different stealer malware, including Atomic Stealer, targeting Apple macOS users.
The ongoing infostealer attacks targeting macOS users may have adopted different methods to compromise victims' Macs, but operate with the end goal of stealing sensitive data, Jamf Threat Labs said in a report published Friday.
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Hackers Target macOS Users with Malicious Ads Spreading Stealer Malware

Cybercriminals have taken MFA bombing to the next level by calling victims of an attack from a spoofed Apple Support number.

Simply put, MFA bombing (also known as “push bombing” or “MFA fatigue”) is a brute force attack on your patience. Cybercriminals use MFA bombing to break into accounts that are protected by multi-factor authentication (MFA).

MFA normally requires a user to enter a six-digit code sent by SMS, or generated by an app, or to respond to a push notification, when they enter a username and password. It provides an enormous increase in security and makes life much harder for criminals.

Because it’s so hard to break, criminals have taken to getting users to defeat their own MFA. They do this by using stolen credentials to try logging in, or by trying to reset a user’s password over and over again. In both cases this bombards the user with push notifications asking them to approve the login, or messages asking them to change their password. By doing this, the criminals hope that users will either tap the wrong option or get so fed up they just do whatever the messages are asking them to do, just to make the bombardment stop.

Now, according to this blog by Bran Krebs, these attacks have evolved. If you can withstand the pressure of the constant notifications, the criminals will call you pretending to come to your rescue.

In one example Krebs writes about, criminals flooded a target’s phone with password reset notifications for their Apple ID. Each notification required the user to choose either “Allow” or “Don’t Allow” before they could go back to using their device.

After withstanding the temptation to click “Allow”, and declining “100-plus” notifications, the victim receved a call from a spoofed number pretending to be Apple Support.

The call was designed to get the victim to trigger a password reset, and then to hand over the one-time password reset code sent to their device. Armed with a reset code, the criminals could change the victim’s password and lock them out of their account.

Luckily, in this situation the victim thought the callers seemed untrustworthy, so he asked them to provide some of his personal information, and they got his name wrong.

Another victim of MFA bombing learned that the notifications kept coming even after he bought a new device and created a new Apple iCloud account. This revealed that the attacks must have been targeted at his telephone number, because it was the only constant factor between the two device configurations.

Yet another target was told by Apple that setting up an Apple Recovery Key for his account would stop the notifications once and for all, although both Krebs and the victim dispute this.

Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a lot you can do once an MFA bombing attack starts other than be patient, and be careful not to click Allow. If you get a call, know that Apple Support will never call you out of the blue, so don’t trust the caller, no matter how convenient their timing.

If you lose control of your Apple ID, go to iforgot.apple.com to start the account recovery process.

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Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Keep threats off your mobile devices by downloading Malwarebytes for iOS, and Malwarebytes for Android today.

 MFA bombing taken to the next level 

Backing up your Mac is a simple process that can save your most important files from cyberthreats.

Backing up your Mac computer doesn’t need to be intimidating.

By taking advantage of a user-friendly feature released by Apple several years ago, the entire backup process can be handled almost automatically, preserving your most important files, photos, applications, and emails from cyberthreats and mishaps.

Before starting the backup process, **you will** **need an external storage device** that can connect to your Mac with a USB or Thunderbolt cable. External storage devices, which are sometimes called external hard drives, are developed and sold by many different companies, including Lacie, SanDisk, and Western Digital.

If you do not have an external storage device, you must first get one. You should also follow Apple’s recommendation that your external storage device be **twice as large** as the hard drive of your Mac computer.

To find the hard drive size of your current Mac, open the **System Settings** app on your computer. On the left-hand rail, click **General** and then, in the window open to the right, click **Storage**.

Several statistics and options will be shown.

At the top of the Storage section, the hard drive space is shown. Here, it is 494.38 GB, or 500 GB roughly.

The Mac shown here has 500 GB of internal storage. If we were to back this Mac up, we would need to use an external storage device of 1 TB (terabyte).

Once you have your external storage device, you can begin the actual backup processs.

The simplest way to back up your Mac is with the built-in feature “**Time Machine**.”

First, connect your external storage device to your Mac.

Then, you need to set up that storage device as your “backup disk.” This means that, from this point forward, your external storage device will have one primary use, and that is as a backup device that syncs with Time Machine. Apple recommends that you **do** **not** use your external storage device that you are using with Time Machine for anything other than Time Machine backups.

To set up your storage device as your backup disk, follow these instructions:

Go to **System Settings**.  

Click on **General** in the left sidebar.

From here, click on **Time Machine** in the main window displayed to the right.

From the **Time Machine** menu, click **Add Backup Disk** or click the “Add” button (+).

From here, select your external storage device and then click **Set Up Disk**.

At this point in the process, you may receive two options from Time Machine:

1.  If your device has other files on it, you will be asked if you want to erase the device so that it can be used solely as a backup with Time Machine. You can erase the files immediately and then continue the backup process through Time Machine. If you do not want to erase the files, you need to get a separate external storage device that will be used exclusively as a backup with Time Machine.
2.  If your external storage device already has backups from a prior computer, you will be asked whether you can to keep those backups and roll them into new backups made with Time Machine. This is up to you.

From here, the backup process is nearly done.

To make a backup, simply click on **Back Up Now** from the Time Machine menu.

Your first backup could take a long time to complete, but know that you can continue using your computer like normal while the process happens in the background.

From here on, whenever you attach your external storage device to your Mac, Time Machine will automatically ask to make a backup of the changes to your Mac. You can also change the frequency of your backups in your Time Machine Settings.

 How to back up your Mac 

An easy-to-understand guide on how to backup your iPhone or iPad to iCloud automatically.

They say the only backup you ever regret is the one you didn’t make. iPhone backups can be used to easily move your apps and data to a new phone, to recover things you’ve lost, or to fix things that have failed.

The most convenient way to backup your iPhone is to have it backup to iCloud. Backups are made every day, automatically, provided your phone is connected to power and locked. Be aware though that backups take take up a lot of your iCloud storage, and your phones’ data plan if you choose to backup when you aren’t connected to Wi-Fi. If those are likely to be problems for you, you might prefer to backup your iPhone to your Mac.

This guide tells you how to enable backups to iCloud, and how to check that everything is working as you expect.

Open the **Settings** app.

Then tap where you see your name and **Apple ID, iCloud+, Media & Purchases**.

Next, tap **iCloud**.

Scroll down and tap **iCloud Backup**.

Toggle **Back Up This iPhone** to on.

This may reveal a **Back Up Over Cellular Data** or **Back Up Over Mobile Data** toggle. This creates backups when you aren’t connected to Wi-Fi. Because backups can use a lot of data, toggling this on may cause you to exceed your data plan.

Once you have made a backup, you can access it from this screen under **ALL DEVICE BACKUPS**.

You can return to the previous screen by tapping the **< iCloud** link at the top. This screen shows you how much storage space your backups are using. To see a little more detail, tap **Manage Account Storage**.

Scroll down the list of apps until you see **Backups** to see how much storage your backups are using.

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Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Keep threats off your mobile devices by downloading Malwarebytes for iOS, and Malwarebytes for Android today.

 How to back up your iPhone to iCloud 

Apple Security Advisory 03-25-2024-1 - Safari 17.4.1 addresses code execution and out of bounds write vulnerabilities.

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Apple maintains a Security Updates page at  
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Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved  
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CVE-2024-1580: Nick Galloway of Google Project Zero

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Apple Security Advisory 03-25-2024-2 - macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 addresses code execution and out of bounds write vulnerabilities.

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Apple maintains a Security Updates page at  
https://support.apple.com/HT201222 which lists recent  
software updates with security advisories.

CoreMedia  
Available for: macOS Sonoma  
Impact: Processing an image may lead to arbitrary code execution  
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved  
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CVE-2024-1580: Nick Galloway of Google Project Zero

WebRTC  
Available for: macOS Sonoma  
Impact: Processing an image may lead to arbitrary code execution  
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved  
input validation.  
CVE-2024-1580: Nick Galloway of Google Project Zero

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