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Microsoft won’t say if its products were exploited by spyware zero-days

TechCrunch

Microsoft has released patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in two popular open source libraries that affect several Microsoft products, including Skype, Teams and its Edge browser. But Microsoft won’t say if those zero-days were exploited to target its products, or if the company knows either way.

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Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO

TechCrunch

In Apple’s case, researchers looking into spyware vulnerabilities said its “Lockdown Mode” was able to thwart the advances of the infamous mercenary hacking provider NSO Group. Also, Apple opens its first retail store in India , but there are…challenges, Manish writes. Lorenzo has more.

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

Dark Caracal’s custom-developed mobile spyware, which the report’s authors call Pallas, is the first documented global advanced persistent threat , or APT, on a mobile device. . “ If you had even a little mobile development experience, [Dark Caracal] could cost less than $1,000.”—Michael

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CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-4863, CVE-2023-5129: Frequently Asked Questions for ImageIO and WebP/libwebp Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Tenable

Frequently asked questions relating to vulnerabilities in Apple, Google and the open source libwebp library. 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. What is WebP or libwebp?

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Benchmarks, training code, and models are all open source. Lockdown mode provides an extreme degree of privacy; it is intended for people who believe they are being targeted by state-sponsored mercenary spyware. Try Autoregex : GPT-3 to generate regular expressions from natural language descriptions. Don’t over-allocate memory.

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Forget the Rules, Listen to the Data

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

These new technologies open up new risks such as phishing, identity theft, card skimming, viruses and Trojans, spyware and adware, social engineering, website cloning and cyber stalking and vishing (If you have a mobile phone, you’ve likely had to contend with the increasing number and sophistication of vishing scams).

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Why Is It Necessary to Run Cybersecurity Evaluation Exercises?

Altexsoft

The commands are often sourced from or based on open-source tools and information banks. Moreover, spyware can result in data losses that can also mean disruptions in business operations. Another way to evaluate and verify security effectiveness is to use automated penetration testing software or red teaming resources.