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Fake Trading Apps for Android, iOS Lead to Pig Butchering Scam

Jeffrey Burt | October 4, 2024 | Apple iOS, Google Android, Pig Butchering Scams

In a pig butchering scam, fake trading apps first available on Google and Apple apps stores and later on phishing download sites lured victims into depositing money into fraudulent accounts, which was ...

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E2EE is MIA in iPhone/Android Chat — GSMA Gonna Fix it

Richi Jennings | September 18, 2024 | android, Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone, china, E2EE, end-to-end, end-to-end encryption, google, Great Firewall of China, GSMA, iChat, imessage, ios, iOS 18, iPhone, iphone security, MLS, RCS, RCS protocol, SB Blogwatch, SMS, SMS messages

No More Barf-Green Bubbles? GSM Association is “excited” to bring Apple and Google closer together, but encryption is still lacking ...

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‘Perfect 10’ Apple Supply Chain Bug — Millions of Apps at Risk of CocoaPods RCE

Tim looks grim: 10 year old vulnerabilities in widely used dev tool include a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution bug ...

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Three South Korean soldiers stand guard at the DMZ between North and South Korea

South Korean iPhone Ban: MDM DMZ PDQ

MDM Hindered: Android phones are still OK; this is Samsung’s home, after all ...

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Apple OTP FAIL: ‘MFA Bomb’ Warning — Locks Accounts, Wipes iPhones

Rethink different: First, fatigue frightened users with multiple modal nighttime notifications. Next, call and pretend to be Apple support ...

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Apple M-Series FAIL: GoFetch Flaw Finds Crypto Keys

Richi Jennings | March 22, 2024 | Apple, apple bug, Apple Data Security, apple hack, apple hacker, Apple iOS, Apple iPad, ARM, cache, dmp, GoFetch, iPad, M1, M2, M3, Macintosh, macos, SB Blogwatch

GoFAIL: Researchers worm their way into broken cache-filling microcode in most Macs and iPads ...

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Kaspersky Details Method for Detecting Spyware in iOS

Jeffrey Burt | January 17, 2024 | Apple iOS, iOS spyware, iPhone, Kaspersky Security, Pegasus Spyware

Researchers with cybersecurity firm Kaspersky are detailing a lightweight method for detecting the presence of spyware, including The NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus software, in Apple iOS devices. The new method, which calls ...

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More iOS Zero-Days, More Mercenary Spyware — This Time: Cytrox Predator

Richi Jennings | September 25, 2023 | 0day, Ahmed Eltantawy, Apple iOS, Apple zero-day, Citizen Lab, CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992, CVE-2023-41993, CVE-2023-4762, Cytrox, egypt, Google Project Zero, ios, iOS spyware, Predator spyware, Privacy, Sandvine, SB Blogwatch, spyware, Vodafone, Vodafone Egypt

Apple Scrambled to Fix 3 More CVEs: Egyptian opposition presidential candidate Ahmed Eltantawy targeted “by the government ...

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New Apple ‘Rapid’ Update is Slow, Messy FAIL

Richi Jennings | May 2, 2023 | Apple, Apple iOS, apple security update, ios, iPhone, macos, patch, Rapid Security Response, RSR, SB Blogwatch

PATCH NOW! Oh, wait, you can’t: “You are no longer connected to the internet,” it sneers ...

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TikTok Circumvents Privacy Protections, Russian Sanction Attacks, Apple AirTag Anti-Stalking Measures

Tom Eston | February 28, 2022 | AirTag, AirTags, Apple, Apple iOS, Biden, Cybersecurity, Device Tracking, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, Podcast, Privacy, Ransomware, Russia, security, Stalking, surveillance, technology, TikTok, tracking, Ukraine, Weekly Edition

How TikTok can circumvent privacy protections and performs device tracking that gives TikTok full access to user data, the US government warns about ransomware attacks after Biden’s new sanctions against Russia, and ...

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