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New podcast alert! "Smashing Security" ep 361 is out now, with special guest Paul Ducklin, yours truly, and my erstwhile co-host Carole Theriault.
We discuss how your smartphone may be toast – if you use a hacked wireless charger, we take a closer look at the latest developments in the unfolding LockBit ransomware drama, and Carole dips her toe into online AI romance apps.
https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-361/
#cybersecurity #podcast #malware #ransomware #privacy #romance
Smashing Security podcast #361: Wireless charging woe, AI romance apps, and ransomware revisited
Your smartphone may be toast – if you use a hacked wireless charger, we take a closer look at the latest developments in the unfolding LockBit ransomware drama…Graham Cluley
Google's Software Is Malware
"Back Doors
2020-04
The Google Play Terms of Service insist that the user of Android accept the presence of universal back doors in apps released by Google."
Source: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html
#Malware #Google #FreeSoftware
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23851902/microsoft-bing-popups-windows-11-malware
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
Microsoft has started using pop-ups that appear over the top of apps and games to convince Windows users to switch to Bing.Tom Warren (The Verge)
More details:
https://updatedsecurity.com/topic/291-huge-increase-in-malicious-advertising-on-google/?a=1
#infosec #cybersecurity #malware
Huge Increase in Malicious Advertising on Google
It seems like after Microsoft moved to limit Office Macros, there has been a resurgence in other techniques such as malvertising and iso attachments.MalwareTech (UpdatedSecurity)
It was an account set up as a bot using the Mastodon logo and name to appear official. Its profile was devoted entirely to text claiming your PC was infected and your account would be removed for slowing down Mastodon if you didn’t click a suspicious link to fix it. The account had no posts, follows, or followers.
It seemed to operate by favoriting potential victims’ posts without boosting, leaving no visible tracks of where it had been or what it was doing, while bringing eyes to its profile. I know I clicked over to its profile to see what the heck was up. I wasn’t the only one.
The scammers have arrived.
#bots #spam #scam #scammers #Mastodon #malware
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hive-ransomware-now-encrypts-linux-and-freebsd-systems/?&web_view=true
#security
Hive ransomware now encrypts Linux and FreeBSD systems
The Hive ransomware gang now also encrypts Linux and FreeBSD using new malware variants specifically developed to target these platforms.Sergiu Gatlan (BleepingComputer)
Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online | Hacking | The Guardian
Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers. Then the real world caught up with his online activitiesA longish, but interesting read.
#technology #tech #security #privacy #hacking #malware
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/14/leave-no-trace-how-a-teenage-hacker-lost-himself-online?CMP=fb_a-technology_b-gdntech
Nothing I can find about it online except from #Microsoft itself: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Trojan:Win32/Peekeul.B&ThreatID=2147772321
Windows removed it automatically so I looked at the details of what exactly it removed.
Turns out the malware in question is Endpoint Analytics.
That's Microsoft's own software allowing employers to monitor employee computers: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/analytics/overview
And according to Microsoft's own antivirus, it's #malware.
