The FBI Still Hasn’t Cracked NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Phone

Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize Russian hackers’ domains, and more...

A week in security (September 16 – September 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: "Simply staggering" surveillance conducted by social media and streaming services, FTC finds Tor anonymity compromised by law enforcement. Is it still safe to use? Walmart customers scammed via fake shopping lists, threatened with arrest Snapchat wants to put your...

iOS 18 is out. Here are the new privacy and security features

On September 16, 2024, Apple released iOS 18. Besides a lot of exciting new features, iOS 18 comes with some privacy and security enhancements. One of the most promising new features is the new Passwords app. Built on the foundation of Apple's password management system Keychain, Passwords makes ...

Seventh Sense Unveils Revolutionary Privacy-Preserving Face-Based Public Key Infrastructure and eID Solution

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US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap

Plus: Meta pays $1.4 million in a historic privacy settlement, Microsoft blames a cyberattack for a major Azure outage, and an artist creates a face recognition system to reveal your NYPD “coppelganger.”...

CVE-2024-4897 Remote Code Execution in parisneo/lollms-webui

parisneo/lollms-webui, in its latest version, is vulnerable to remote code execution due to an insecure dependency on llama-cpp-python version llamacpppython-0.2.61+cpuavx2-cp311-cp311-manylinux231x8664. The vulnerability arises from the application's 'bindingzoo' feature, which allows attackers ...

CVE-2024-4897

The CVE-2024-4897 entry affects parisneo/lollms-webui via an insecure dependency on llama-cpp-python (llama_cpp_python-0.2.61+cpuavx2-...), with exploitation possible through the bindings_zoo feature when processing gguf model files. Connected Red Hat CVE-2024-34359 documents explain that the roo...

CVE-2024-4897 Remote Code Execution in parisneo/lollms-webui

parisneo/lollms-webui, in its latest version, is vulnerable to remote code execution due to an insecure dependency on llama-cpp-python version llamacpppython-0.2.61+cpuavx2-cp311-cp311-manylinux231x8664. The vulnerability arises from the application's 'bindingzoo' feature, which allows attackers ...

LoLLMs Security Vulnerabilities

LoLLMs is a Web UI for a large language multi-model system by the individual developer Saifeddine ALOUI. A security vulnerability exists in LoLLMs that stems from the presence of a remote code execution vulnerability that allows an attacker to upload and interact with malicious model files hosted...

Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security

Plus: A cloud company says notorious Russian hacker group APT29 attacked it, Chinese hackers use ransomware to hide their espionage campaigns, and a bank popular with startups discloses a cyberattack...

AI Company Hugging Face Detects Unauthorized Access to Its Spaces Platform

Artificial Intelligence AI company Hugging Face on Friday disclosed that it detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform earlier this week. "We have suspicions that a subset of Spaces' secrets could have been accessed without authorization," it said in an advisory. Spaces offers a way for...

SUSE CVE-2024-24686

Multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the readOFF functionality of libigl v2.5.0. A specially crafted .off file can lead to stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability concerns the parsing of commen...

webkitgtk: Processing a file may lead to a denial of service or potentially disclose memory contents

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the SVG implementation within WebKitGTK. This flaw allows remote attackers to exploit the removal of an SVGFontFaceElement object, which occurs through specific vectors that trigger the deletion of the object during rendering...

You get a passkey, you get a passkey, everyone should get a passkey

Microsoft is rolling out passkey support for all consumer accounts. Passkeys are a very secure replacement for passwords that cant be cracked, guessed or phished, and let you log in easily, without having to type a password every time. After enabling them in Windows 11 last year, Microsoft accoun...

CVE-2023-41819

The CVE-2023-41819 entry concerns Motorola Face Unlock with a PendingIntent hijacking flaw that could allow a local attacker to access unauthorized content providers. Affected component: Motorola Face Unlock app. Root cause: PendingIntent hijacking vulnerability. Exploitation status is not descri...

CVE-2023-41819

A PendingIntent hijacking vulnerability was reported in the Motorola Face Unlock application that could allow a local attacker to access unauthorized content providers...

Google Announces Passkeys Adopted by Over 400 Million Accounts

Google on Thursday announced that passkeys are being used by over 400 million Google accounts, authenticating users more than 1 billion times over the past two years. "Passkeys are easy to use and phishing resistant, only relying on a fingerprint, face scan or a pin making them 50% faster than...

Motorola Face Unlock 安全漏洞

Motorola Face Unlock is a face unlocking application from Motorola USA. A security vulnerability exists in Motorola Face Unlock that stems from the presence of a hijacking vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to access unauthorized content providers...

PT-2024-12983 · Motorola · Motorola Face Unlock

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Motorola Face Unlock affected versions not specified Description: A PendingIntent hijacking issue was reported in the Motorola Face Unlock application, allowing a local attacker to access unauthorized content providers. Recommendations: At th...

The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics

Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data...