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By Deeba Ahmed The malware was identified by cybersecurity researchers at McAfee. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Goldoson Android Malware Found in 60 Apps with 100M Downloads

Malware that can steal data, track location, and perform click fraud was inadvertently built into apps via an infected third-party library, highlighting supply chain risk.

A new Android malware strain named Goldoson has been detected in the official Google Play Store spanning more than 60 legitimate apps that collectively have over 100 million downloads. An additional eight million installations have been tracked through ONE store, a leading third-party app storefront in South Korea. The rogue component is part of a third-party software library used by the apps in

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about "juice jacking," a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat of data theft when one plugs their mobile device into a public charging kiosk. It remains unclear what may have prompted the alerts, but the good news is that there are some fairly basic things you can do to avoid having to worry about juice jacking.

An issue found in Ego Studio SuperClean v.1.1.9 and v.1.1.5 allows an attacker to gain privileges via the update_info field of the _default_.xml file.

On affected modular platforms running Arista EOS equipped with both redundant supervisor modules and having the redundancy protocol configured with RPR or SSO, an existing unprivileged user can login to the standby supervisor as a root user, leading to a privilege escalation. Valid user credentials are required in order to exploit this vulnerability.

BlackVue DR750-2CH LTE v.1.012_2022.10.26 does not employ authenticity check for uploaded firmware. This can allow attackers to upload crafted firmware which contains backdoors and enables arbitrary code execution.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6014-1 - Xuewei Feng, Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Kun Sun, and Ke Xu discovered that the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle IPID assignment. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or inject forged data. Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.

By Owais Sultan Mobile security is becoming increasingly important as we delve deeper into the era of the Internet of Things… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Top Mobile Security Considerations for Business Travelers

By Owais Sultan The world of crypto finance is rapidly evolving and providing new opportunities for individuals and businesses. With the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How To Safely Navigate the World of Crypto Finance