Abdelhamid Naceri, a former Microsoft Germany employee, is the exploit leaker Nightmare Eclipse, aka Chaotic Eclipse.
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Microsoft Tries to Calm Legal Threat Fears After Zero-Day Disclosure Backlash
Microsoft responds to backlash over its threats of legal action against researchers who publicly disclose zero-day vulnerabilities.
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Researcher Discovers 4th WhatsApp View Once Bypass; Meta Won’t Patch
Meta does not plan on fixing the vulnerability because it involves the use of a modified client application.
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Amazon Scraps Partnership With Surveillance Company After Super Bowl Ad Backlash
Amazon’s smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety.
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SquareX and Perplexity Quarrel Over Alleged Comet Browser Vulnerability
SquareX claims to have found a way to abuse a hidden Comet API to execute local commands, but Perplexity says the research is fake.
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$1M WhatsApp Hack Flops: Only Low-Risk Bugs Disclosed to Meta After Pwn2Own Withdrawal
WhatsApp told SecurityWeek that the two low-impact vulnerabilities cannot be used for arbitrary code execution.
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Elastic Refutes Claims of Zero-Day in EDR Product
Elastic has found no evidence of a vulnerability leading to RCE after details and PoC of a Defend EDR bypass were published online.
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Controversial Firms Cellebrite and Corellium Announce $200 Million Acquisition Deal
Cellebrite and Corellium, whose names have been mentioned in spyware stories, are joining forces to provide advanced investigative solutions.
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Users Quick to Remove UltraAV After Silent Transition From Kaspersky Antivirus
Many US users are voicing concerns over the silent, forced transition from Kaspersky’s security products to UltraAV.
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