An Israeli lawyer said Saturday he was working with a rights group in Hungary to pursue authorities and Israeli firm NSO Group on behalf of Hungarian journalists allegedly targeted with Pegasus spyware.
Over 100 Million Android Users Installed ‘Dark Herring’ Scamware
More than 105 million Android users downloaded and installed scamware from Google Play and third-party app stores, according to mobile security firm Zimperium.
Apple Patches ‘Actively Exploited’ iOS Security Flaw
Apple late Wednesday pushed out an urgent iOS update with fixes for 11 documented security flaws and warned that one of the vulnerabilities “may have been actively exploited.”
In a barebones advisory, Apple acknowledged the zero-day took aim at a memory corruption issue in IOMobileFrameBuffer, an oft-targeted iOS kernel extension.
U.S. Olympians Told to Use ‘Burner Phones’ in China
Report: Dozens of El Salvador Journalists, Activists Hacked
Dozens of journalists and human rights defenders in El Salvador had their cellphones repeatedly hacked with sophisticated spyware over the past year and a half, an internet watchdog said Wednesday.
Apple Patches iOS HomeKit Flaw After Researcher Warning
Apple has released an iOS security update with a fix for a persistent denial-of-service flaw in the HomeKit software framework but only after an independent researcher publicly criticized the company for ignoring his discovery.
Moxie Marlinspike Steps Down as Signal CEO
Celebrated cryptographer Moxie Marlinspike is stepping down as chief executive at Signal, temporarily turning the reins of the popular encrypted messaging platform to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton.
U.S. Government Issues Warning Over Commercial Surveillance Tools
The U.S. State Department and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) on Friday issued a warning over the use of commercial surveillance tools.
Microsoft Announces Zero-Touch Onboarding for ‘Defender for Endpoint’ on iOS
Microsoft this week announced the public preview of zero-touch onboarding for Defender for Endpoint on iOS.
With the new capability, organizations can deploy Defender for Endpoint on iOS across devices in their environment without requiring any form of user interaction, as long as those devices are enrolled with Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
Malware Can Fake iPhone Shutdown via ‘NoReboot’ Technique
Researchers at mobile security firm ZecOps have shown how a piece of iOS malware can achieve “persistence” on a device by faking its shutdown process.













