TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. That’s definitely still a part of what I do.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 22, 2018

The digital-rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lookout Mobile Security, which co-authored the report, say they tracked the Dark Caracal phishing campaign across more than 60 websites. “ If you had even a little mobile development experience, [Dark Caracal] could cost less than $1,000.”—Michael

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The discovery of a potential new infection technique by NSO Group, termed “MMS Fingerprint,” is hinted at in a contract between NSO and Ghana’s telecom regulator, as part of ongoing litigation with WhatsApp.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

On September 7, researchers at Citizen Lab published a blog post detailing their discovery of an iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit chain in Apple iOS used to deploy a spyware known as Pegasus. It is a part of Apple operating systems from iOS and iPadOS to macOS, and watchOS. What is WebP or libwebp? and iPadOS 16.6.1

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Spyware: Programs that monitor activity of infected computers (e.g., Botnets: Groups of automated, self-propagating applications that infect multiple machines and use them to conduct distributed denial of service attacks. Trojans: Malware disguised as programs or files a user needs. Balancing security and compliance.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2022

Bloom , the open and transparent large language model developed by the BigScience group, is finished ! Perhaps the scariest exploit in security would be a rootkit that cannot be detected or removed , even by wiping the disk and reinstalling the operating system. You can try it out, download it, and read its specifications.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 2, 2020

You can use regression to predict system calls of operating systems, and then identify anomalies by comparing the prediction to an actual call. Clustering —identifies similarities between datasets and groups them based on their common features. Clustering works directly on new data without considering previous examples.

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