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Security Bits — 17 March 2024 ☘️

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Ransomeware-related developments: The apparent return of the BlackCat ransomeware gang after their recent law enforcement take-down appears to have been short-lived, with the group collapsing with an apparent exit scam: BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes […]

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Security Bits — 3 March 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Another defeat for the NSO group: 🇺🇸 U.S. Court Orders NSO Group to Hand Over Pegasus Spyware Code to WhatsApp — thehackernews.com/… 🇺🇸 Microsoft have finally followed through on their promise to the US […]

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Security Bits — 18 February 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. It’s not just in Google Search Results that malicious ads are getting through ATM: Facebook ads push new Ov3r_Stealer password-stealing malware — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (The lure is different though, job ads with malicious PDF downloads, […]

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Security Bits — 4 February 2024

<li>## Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple have released iOS 17.3, which includes the new Stolen Device Protection mode designed to thwart the recent spike in iPhone thefts by thieves who have observed or socially engineered passcodes allowing them […]

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Security Bits — 21 January 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. We warned about this then-unpatched flaw a few weeks ago, now there’s a fix: Apple patches security flaw that allowed Magic Keyboard Bluetooth connections to be faked — appleinsider.com/… Kaspersky have developed and released […]

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Security Bits — 3 January 2024 (Bart & Jill from the North Woods)

Deep Dive — Operation Triangulation TL;DR — Kaspersky labs have discovered that they, and Russian government officials, were targeted by very advanced iOS malware that completely took over iOS devices for the last 4 years. Apple have patched all the exploited vulnerabilities, regular users were not targeted, and Kaspersky say there is not enough evidence […]

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Security Bits — 22 December 2023

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Push Notification Law Enforcement Requests: shortly after we recorded the previous instalment Apple updated their process for law enforcement to request push notification metadata from Apple, now lining their process up with Google’s to […]

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Security Bits — 10 December 2023

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Allison was sceptical that Google really would move to eliminate 3rd-party cookies in 2024, but they put a little wood behind the proverbial arrow this week: Google is phasing out ad personalization for some […]

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Security Bits — 26 November 2023

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The recent wave of malicious Google ads targeting software downloads continues, this time it’s malicious versions of the popular Secure FTP client WinSCP — thehackernews.com/… ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories […]

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