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Google and Apple deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in Android and iOS

Google Security

Google and Apple have worked together to create an industry specification – Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers – for Bluetooth tracking devices that makes it possible to alert users across both Android and iOS if such a device is unknowingly being used to track them.

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Apple and Google join forces to stop unwanted tracking

Malwarebytes

However, AirTags have long been associated with this unwanted tracking, which is something Apple apparently did not foresee and has been working on to make this type of abuse harder. Bluetooth tag manufacturers including Chipolo, eufy, Jio, Motorola, and Pebblebee have all said that future tags will be compatible.

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How we built the new Find My Device network with user security and privacy in mind

Google Security

How location crowdsourcing works on the Find My Device network The Find My Device network locates devices by harnessing the Bluetooth proximity of surrounding Android devices. The keys themselves have no location capabilities, but they may have a Bluetooth tag attached. This approach provides defense-in-depth for Find My Device users.

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Multiple APT groups exploited WinRAR flaw CVE-2023-38831

Security Affairs

Google TAG reported that both Russia and China-linked threat actors are weaponizing the a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that in recent weeks multiple nation-state actors were spotted exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 in WinRAR. ” reported Google TAG.

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Fines as a Security System

Schneier on Security

Tile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking: The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make the devices invisible to Scan and Secure, the company’s in-app feature that lets you know if any nearby Tiles are following you. But it won’t work against attackers who don’t have any money.

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Ghostwriter v3.2 Release

Security Boulevard

We overhauled how you interact with operation logs and added support for tagging clients, projects, reports, findings, evidence files, domains, servers, operation logs, and log entries. Tagging Tags will help you organize and customize your projects. Tags are comma-separated and appear as grey badges in the interface.

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Recently patched Apple and Chrome zero-days exploited to infect devices in Egypt with Predator spyware

Security Affairs

Citizen Lab and Google’s TAG revealed that the three recently patched Apple zero-days were used to install Cytrox Predator spyware. citizenlab in coordination with @Google ’s TAG team found that former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s #Predator #spyware through links sent via SMS and WhatsApp. .

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