New iOS Trojan “GoldPickaxe” Steals Facial Recognition Data

By Deeba Ahmed This is the first instance of an iOS trojan that has been found stealing facial data from victims. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New iOS Trojan "GoldPickaxe" Steals Facial Recognition Data...

Chinese Hackers Using Deepfakes in Advanced Mobile Banking Malware Attacks

A Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed GoldFactory has been attributed to the development of highly sophisticated banking trojans, including a previously undocumented iOS malware called GoldPickaxe that's capable of harvesting identity documents, facial recognition data, and intercepting SMS...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2023 Q4 Security Researchers!

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2023 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen,...

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It

Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea...

CVE-2024-0454

ELAN Match-on-Chip FPR solution has design fault about potential risk of valid SID leakage and enumeration with spoof sensor. This fault leads to that Windows Hello recognition would be bypass with cloning SID to cause broken account identity. Version which is lower than...

How AI hallucinations are making bug hunting harder

Bug bounty programs that pay people for finding bugs are a very useful tool for improving the security of software. But with the availability of artificial intelligence AI as seen in the popular large language models LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, and others it looks like there is a new problem on the...

Facial Recognition Systems in the US

A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. This, of course, can all change without notice. Three years ago, I wrote that campaigns to ban facial recognition are too narrow. The problem here is...

A week in security (December 18 – December 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Comcast’s Xfinity breached by Citrix Bleed; 36 million customer’s data accessed How does ThreatDown Vulnerability Assessment and Patch Management work? How Outlook notification sounds can lead to zero-click exploits Update Chrome now! Emergency update patches...

US pharmacy Rite Aid banned from operating facial recognition systems

Pharmacy chain Rite Aid has been denied the right to run facial recognition systems in its stores for five years, by a Federal Trade Commission FTC ruling. The regulator found so many flaws in the retailers surveillance program that it concluded Rite Aid had failed to implement reasonable...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in the MEGVII Face Recognition Passing Platform of Beijing Kuangyi Technology Co.

Beijing Kuangshi Technology Co., Ltd. is an artificial intelligence company focusing on IoT scenarios. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in the Kuangxiang MEGVII face recognition pass platform of Beijing Kuangxiang Technology Co. that can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive...

The vulnerability of the Speech API’s software interface for speech recognition and synthesis on Windows operating systems allows attackers to exploit their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Speech API SAPI software interface for speech recognition and synthesis in Windows operating systems is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges...

Police Use of Face Recognition Is Sweeping the UK

Face recognition technology has been controversial for years. Cops in the UK are drastically increasing the amount they use it...

CVE-2023-21342

In RemoteSpeechRecognitionService of RemoteSpeechRecognitionService.java, there is a possible way to launch an activity from the background due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not...

Face search engine PimEyes stops searches of children’s faces

In what may come as a surprise, subscription-based face search engine PimEyes seems to have realized that their service can be used for nefarious purposes. PimEyes’ CEO Giorgi Gobronidze told the New York Times that it has taken technical measures to block such searches as part of a “no harm...

PT-2023-29851 · Reconftw · Reconftw

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: reconFTW versions prior to 2.7.1.1 Description: A vulnerability has been identified in reconFTW where inadequate validation of retrieved subdomains may lead to a Remote Code Execution RCE attack. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2023 Q3 Security Researchers!

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2023 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Wei,...

The 2023 Akamai Partner Award Winners: A Spotlight on Success

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Cross site scripting

Common Voice is the web app for Mozilla Common Voice, a platform for collecting speech donations in order to create public domain datasets for training voice recognition-related tools. Version 1.88.2 is vulnerable to reflected Cross-Site Scripting given that user-controlled data flows to a path...

Google Chrome < 107.0.5304.106 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 107.0.5304.106. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 202211stable-channel-update-for-desktop advisory. - Heap buffer overflow in Crashpad in Google Chrome on Android prior to...

On Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition

Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvands head, Facebook could prevent users from ever forgetting a colleagues name, give a reminder at a cocktail party that an acquaintance had kids to ask about or help find someone at ...