Poorly Purged Medical Devices Present Security Concerns After Sale on Secondary Market

In a post-pandemic landscape, the interconnectedness of cybersecurity is front and center. Few could say that they were not at least aware of, if not directly affected by, the downstream effects of major breaches that cause impacts felt across economies. One should look at disruptions in the glob...

Every company has its own version of ChatGPT now

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. When I first started poking at ChatGPT a few months ago, I quickly learned that it wasnt quite ready to take my job yet and wasnt staying up to date on wrestling. Since ChatGPT went viral, several other companies have released their o...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-37920

Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi prior to version 2023.07.22 recognizes "e-Tugra" root certificates. e-Tugra's root certificates were subject to an investigation prompted ...

WormGPT – The Malicious ChatGPT Alternative Empowering Cybercriminals

By Waqas Malicious AI Unleashed: WormGPT Raises Concerns in Cybersecurity! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WormGPT - The Malicious ChatGPT Alternative Empowering Cybercriminals...

Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack

The first Republican primary debate has a popularity threshold to determine who gets to appear: 40,000 individual contributors. Now there are a lot of conventional ways a candidate can get that many contributors. Doug Burgum came up with a novel idea: buy them: A long-shot contender at the bottom...

Fake THREADS App Climbs to Number 1 Spot on Apple Store in Europe

By Habiba Rashid Due to privacy concerns, Meta has not yet released the Threads app in EU countries, creating a loophole for criminals to upload fake versions of the app. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake THREADS App Climbs to Number 1 Spot on Apple Store in Europe...

Privacy of Printing Services

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Print services should also...

OSINT Tool ‘Illicit Services’ Shuts Down Amidst Exploitation Concerns

By Waqas The owner and administrator of the Illicit Services OSINT Tool cites the rise in illegitimate activities and exploitation as reasons for closure. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OSINT Tool Illicit Services Shuts Down Amidst Exploitation Concerns...

I want XAES-256-GCM/11

In 2023, the way to use AES is AES-GCM. Anything else is very unlikely to make sense. We might not like that, we might wish OCB hadn't been patented, but with hardware support in most processors these days GCM is both faster than the alternatives, ubiquitous, and just tolerable to implement. Stil...

Instagram's Twitter Alternative 'Threads' Launch Halted in Europe Over Privacy Concerns

Instagram Threads, the upcoming Twitter competitor from Meta, will not be launched in the European Union due to privacy concerns, according to Ireland's Data Protection Commission DPC. The development was reported by the Irish Independent, which said the watchdog has been in contact with the soci...

Instagram's Twitter Alternative 'Threads' Launch Halted in Europe Over Privacy Concerns

Instagram Threads, the upcoming Twitter competitor from Meta, will not be launched in the European Union due to privacy concerns, according to Ireland's Data Protection Commission DPC. The development was reported by the Irish Independent, which said the watchdog has been in contact with the soci...

Self-driving cars are a privacy issue, says security expert

Self-driving cars peel off an extra layer from our privacy, says security expert Bruce Schneier. Theoretically, if you know the location of all the closed-circuit television CCTV cameras in a neighborhood, you might be able to move around without one of them ever catching a glimpse of your face...

A week in security (June 12 - 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: MOVEit discloses THIRD critical vulnerability Fake security researchers push malware files on GitHub LockBit ransomware advisory from CISA provides interesting insights Microsoft fixes six critical vulnerabilities in June Patch Tuesday Update Chrome now! Google fix...

Edge browser feature sends images you view back to Microsoft

A relatively new service provided by Microsofts browser Edge sends images you've viewed online back to Microsoft. A new feature labelled Enhance images in Microsoft Edge has raised some privacy concerns. The feature is designed to upscale low resolution images, making them sharper, and improving...

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens

A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans...

WhosHere Plus. Trilateration vulnerability

WhosHere Plus is a dating app that uses GPS data to recommend users near to each other, based on similar interests. PTP constantly researches the state of privacy and security in apps that use GPS data, because the consequences of poor security and privacy are alarming: Tracking and snooping on a...

Event-Driven Architecture & the Security Implications

This article explores the benefits of event-driven architecture for developers and best practices for mitigating security concerns...

Mercenary mayhem: A technical analysis of Intellexa's PREDATOR spyware

We would like to thank The Citizen Lab for their cooperation, support and inputs into this research. Commercial spyware use is on the rise, with actors leveraging these sophisticated tools to conduct surveillance operations against a growing number of targets. Cisco Talos has new details of a...

Security Risks of New .zip and .mov Domains

Researchers are worried about Googles .zip and .mov domains, because they are confusing. Mistaking a URL for a filename could be a security vulnerability...

This Cybercrime Syndicate Pre-Infected Over 8.9 Million Android Phones Worldwide

A cybercrime enterprise known as Lemon Group is leveraging millions of pre-infected Android smartphones worldwide to carry out their malicious operations, posing significant supply chain risks. "The infection turns these devices into mobile proxies, tools for stealing and selling SMS messages,...