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June 2023 Security Update for Android fixed Arm Mali GPU bug used by spyware?

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June 2023 security update for Android released by Google fixes about fifty flaws, including an Arm Mali GPU bug exploited by surveillance firms in their spyware. The June 2023 Android Security Bulletin provides details about the fix for more than fifty vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. In early April, U.S.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 439 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang hacked the hotel chain Motel One FBI warns of dual ransomware attacks Progress Software fixed two critical severity flaws in WS_FTP Server Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive A still unpatched zero-day RCE impacts more than 3.5M

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 368 by Pierluigi Paganini

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Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. I ask you to vote for me again (even if you have already done it), because this vote is for the final.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 362 by Pierluigi Paganini

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Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 228

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Intel addresses High-Severity flaws in NUC Firmware and other tools. The Cost of Dealing With a Cybersecurity Attack in These 4 Industries. App tainted with Ahmyst Open-source spyware appeared on Google Play Store twice. Bluetana App allows detecting Bluetooth card skimmers in just 3 seconds.

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MoonBounce UEFI implant spotted in a targeted APT41 attack

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At the end of 2021, researchers discovered a UEFI firmware-level compromise by analyzing logs from its Firmware Scanner. Threat actors compromised a single component within the firmware image to intercept the original execution flow of the machine’s boot sequence and inject the sophisticated implant. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Operation Triangulation attacks relied on an undocumented hardware feature

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Researchers from the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky discovered that threat actors behind the Operation Triangulation exploited an undocumented hardware feature to target Apple iOS devices. The spyware is directly deployed in memory, but if the victim reboots the device the malware doesn’t persist. .

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