Fake Airplane mode lets threat actors spy on iPhone users
A phone that only connects to a threat actor: it's possible in iPhones and other Apple devices running on iOS 16. Researchers at Jamf Threat Labs found a way to trick users into thinking airplane mode is enabled on their cell phone, when in fact the UI has been tampered with.
The team explains t... Read more
Toyota warns that the data of 300,000 customers may have been stolen
An access key code left exposed on GitHub may have breached the data of 300,000 Toyota customers.
Toyota has announced that nearly 300,000 customers may have had their data stolen, according to a report in SiliconANGLE. The incident marks the third data breach related to the company so far this... Read more
Cloudflare moves into email security
The company has launched two new tools to protect email accounts from targeted threats.
This week Cloudflare announced two new email safety and security offerings. The company sees the new products as a first step toward catching more targeted phishing attacks
Cloudflare users will now be ab... Read more
Malicious mobile emulator farms are robbing US and EU banks
IBM Trusteer researchers have uncovered an extensive fraud operation unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. In simpler terms, it is the nightmare of automated fraud. A network of mobile device emulators was used to steal millions of dollars from bank accounts in just a few days.
The scale ... Read more
Criminals more successfully spoof banks and financial services
Bitdefender published a new report that says the stay-at-home model of working, online shopping, and online banking are perfect hunting grounds for criminals.
Recently, they have started spoofing banking emails more, hoping to defraud customers. More than a third of all incoming emails related t... Read more
Another Bluetooth flaw has been discovered in the BLE software stack
Researchers at Purdue University revealed details about a new vulnerability in the Bluetooth wireless standard that could potentially expose billions of devices to attackers. The new vulnerability has been named Bluetooth Low Energy Spoofing Attack or BLESA for short.
The vulnerability is a ris... Read more
Russia accuses of spoofing GPS and other navigation satellite systems
Russia is accused of blocking, hijacking and disrupting signals from global navigation satellite systems. The Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) claims this in a recently published report.
C4ADS is a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to providing data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporti... Read more
News website BBC spotted by bitcoin-scammers
Security researchers have discovered that apparently legitimate BBC News websites are being misused by scammers to mince bitcoin. The scam was discovered in the first week of January, reports The Next Web.
Scammers created an email that seemed to be legitimate, containing a button to display the mes... Read more