Privacy of Photos.app’s Enhanced Visual Search

Initial speculation about a new Apple feature...

Some weeks in security (December 16 – January 5)

During the holiday period on Malwarebytes Labs we covered: A day in the life of a privacy pro, with Ron de Jesus Lock and Code S05E26 Task scams surge by 400%, but what are they? 5 million payment card details stolen in painful reminder to monitor Christmas spending AI-generated malvertising "whi...

New FireScam Infostealer Spyware Hits Android via Fake Telegram Premium

Researchers at Cyfirma have discovered FireScam, an Android malware disguised as 'Telegram Premium' that steals data, monitors activity, and infiltrates devices. Learn about its distribution, functionality, and the impact on user privacy...

Apple May Owe You $20 in a Siri Privacy Lawsuit Settlement

Plus: The FBI discovers a historic trove of homemade explosives, new details emerge in China’s hack of the US Treasury Department, and more...

The surprising existence of the erase button on cockpit voice recorders

Introduction Safety and transparency are important in aviation. One tool that helps here is the Cockpit Voice Recorder CVR, which records audio from the cockpit during flights. It is crucial for accident investigations, helping authorities understand what happened before an incident. However, you...

Apple to Pay Siri Users $20 Per Device in Settlement Over Accidental Siri Privacy Violations

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that accused the iPhone maker of invading users' privacy using its voice-activated Siri assistant. The development was first reported by Reuters. The settlement applies to U.S.-based individuals current or former owners...

PT-2025-2986 · Google · Android

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: sms Utilities.c affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a possible out of bounds read in the sms DisplayHexDumpOfPrivacyBuffer function of sms Utilities.c due to an incorrect bounds check. This could lead to remot...

Apple iPhone OS and iPadOS Privacy Breach Vulnerability

iPhone OS is the operating system developed by Apple for the iPhone and iPod touch. iPadOS is Apple's mobile operating system for iPad devices, which is based on iOS and optimized for iPad. A privacy disclosure vulnerability exists in Apple iPhone OS and iPadOS, which stems from the fact that use...

Google Android 安全漏洞

Google Android is an open source cell phone operating system developed by Google. Google Android suffers from an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that stems from incorrect boundary checking of the smsDisplayHexDumpOfPrivacyBuffer function in the smsUtilities.c file. An attacker can exploit the...

Google Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting

Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google's policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback. EDITED TO ADD 1/12: Shashdot thread...

PT-2026-2468

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Node.js affected versions not specified Description A flaw exists in the Node.js software platform due to incorrect path name restriction for restricted access directories. Successful exploitation of this issue could allow an attacker to...

CVE-2024-12993 Location information exposure in Infinix Weather app

Infinix devices contain a pre-loaded "com.rlk.weathers" application, that exposes an unsecured content provider. An attacker can communicate with the provider and reveal the user’s location without any privileges. After multiple attempts to contact the vendor we did not receive any answer. We...

Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity!

Image: Shutterstock, Dreamansions. KrebsOnSecurity.com turns 15 years old today! Maybe it's indelicate to celebrate the birthday of a cybercrime blog that mostly publishes bad news, but happily many of 2024's most engrossing security stories were about bad things happening to bad guys. It's also ...

The Paper Passport Is Dying

Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks...

CVE-2024-12636 Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions Generator WordPress Plugin : WP Legal Pages <= 3.2.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

The Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions Generator WordPress Plugin : WP Legal Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'createpopupdeleteprocess' functio...

U.S. Judge Rules Against NSO Group in WhatsApp Pegasus Spyware Case

Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp scored a major legal victory in its fight against Israeli commercial spyware vendor NSO Group after a federal judge in the U.S. state of California ruled in favor of the messaging giant for exploiting a security vulnerability to deliver Pegasus. "The limited...

Italy Fines OpenAI €15 Million for ChatGPT GDPR Data Privacy Violations

Italy's data protection authority has fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI a fine of €15 million $15.66 million over how the generative artificial intelligence application handles personal data. The fine comes nearly a year after the Garante found that ChatGPT processed users' information to train its...

CVE-2024-55186

An IDOR Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability exists in oqtane Framework 6.0.0, allowing a logged-in user to access inbox messages of other users by manipulating the notification ID in the request URL. By changing the notification ID, an attacker can view sensitive mail details belonging...

CVE-2024-44293

A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.1. A user may be able to view sensitive user information...

CVE-2024-44298

A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.1. An app may be able to access information about a user's contacts...