A week in security (June 23 – June 29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Gmail’s multi-factor authentication bypassed by hackers to pull off targeted attacks Thousands of private camera feeds found online. Make sure yours isn’t one of them Sextortion email scammers increase their "Hello pervert" money demands Many data brokers are faili...

Why the Do Not Call Registry doesn’t work

The “Do Not Call Registry” receives a lot of hate online for failing to do its job: Stop calls. “What’s the point of being on the Do Not Call list?” wrote one user on Reddit who shared a screenshot of ten declined phone calls received across one week. Though already registered with the Do Not Cal...

CVE-2024-44973 mm, slub: do not call do_slab_free for kfence object

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slub: do not call doslabfree for kfence object In 782f8906f805 the freeing of kfence objects was moved from deep inside doslabfree to the wrapper functions outside. This is a nice change, but unfortunately it missed one spot ...

CVE-2021-47588

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sit: do not call ipip6devfree from sitinitnet ipip6devfree is sit dev-privdestructor, already called by registernetdevice if something goes wrong. Alternative would be to make ipip6devfree robust against multiple invocations, but...

FCC comes down hard on robocallers with record $300m fine

Robocallers are in the news after the FCC issued a $300 million forfeiture to a persistent offender and shut down their operation. A robocall network makes use of automated software diallers to spam out large numbers of cold calls to unsuspecting recipients. These calls promise much but give very...

FCC Addresses Robocalling – But Questions Remain

Robocalls and text spam – often in the service of widespread fraud campaigns – continue to persist, dogging consumers despite the existence of the national Do Not Call registry and efforts like the Truth in Caller ID Act. In an effort to alleviate the situation, Federal Communications Commission...

A cure for the common cold call: freeze them out

The phone rings and it's a number I don’t recognize. That’s enough to bring my mood down a few degrees. It shouldn’t, but unfortunately experience has taught me that at least 95 percent of the calls from numbers that are “private” or that I don’t have an account name stored for on my phone are...