EUVD-2022-51175

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

Roblox introduces age checks to use communication features

Roblox is an online platform that allows users to build, play and share online worlds and 3D games. Unfortunately, it’s also a popular platform among predators reaching out to kids and seducing them using game features such as messaging, avatar customization, and role-play. Over the years, the...

Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls

Plus: ICE agents accidentally add a random person to a sensitive group chat, Norwegian intelligence blames the Kremlin for hacking a dam, and new facial recognition vans roam the UK...

VOIDFace: a Privacy-Preserving Multi-Network Face Recognition with Enhanced Security

Advancement of machine learning techniques, combined with the availability of large-scale datasets, has significantly improved the accuracy and efficiency of facial recognition. Modern facial recognition systems are trained using large face datasets collected from diverse individuals or public...

Researchers Expose Massive Online Fake Currency Operation in India

Cybersecurity researchers at CloudSEK's STRIKE team used facial recognition and GPS data to expose a massive, over $2…...

BlowPrint: Blow-Based Multi-Factor Biometrics for Smartphone User Authentication

Biometric authentication is a widely used security mechanism that leverages unique physiological or behavioral characteristics to authenticate users. In multi-factor biometrics MFB, multiple biometric modalities, e.g., physiological and behavioral, are integrated to mitigate the limitations...

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...

ICE Rolls Facial Recognition Tools Out to Officers' Phones

Plus: US feds charge alleged masterminds behind infamous forum, Scattered Spider targets airlines, and hackers open a valve at a Norwegian dam...

Facial recognition: Where and how you can opt out

Our remote team recently took a trip to our Estonian office. When we arrived from our various destinations, we started chatting about how our travel had been. Our senior privacy advocate, David Ruiz, mentioned that he'd opted out of facial recognition while at San Francisco International Airport...

CVE-2022-48479

The facial recognition TA of some products has the out-of-bounds memory read vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause exceptions of the facial recognition service...

CVE-2022-48478

The facial recognition TA of some products lacks memory length verification. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause exceptions of the facial recognition service...

CVE-2022-48356

The facial recognition module has a vulnerability in input parameter verification. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause failed facial recognition...

CVE-2022-48360

The facial recognition module has a vulnerability in file permission control. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect confidentiality...

CVE-2022-38985

The facial recognition module has a vulnerability in input validation.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect data confidentiality...

CVE-2020-10847

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with P9.0 Galaxy S8 and Note8 software. Facial recognition can be spoofed. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-16614 February 2020...

US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car

Customs and Border Protection has called for tech companies to pitch real-time face recognition technology that can capture everyone in a vehicle—not just those in the front seats...

Intimate images from kink and LGBTQ+ dating apps left exposed online

A researcher found millions of pictures from specialized dating apps for iOS stored online without any kind of password protection. The pictures, some of which are explicit, stem from dating apps that all have a specific audience. The five platforms, all developed by M.A.D. Mobile are kink sites...

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Azure AI Face Service, a cloud-based facial recognition and analysis service using artificial intelligence technologies, relates to the ability to bypass authentication through spoofing. This allows attackers to elevate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Azure AI Face Service, a cloud-based facial recognition and analysis service using artificial intelligence technologies, relates to the ability to bypass authentication through spoofing. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow unauthorized actors to gain increas...

Upload a video selfie to get your Facebook or Instagram account back

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram says its testing new ways to use facial recognition—both to combat scams and to help restore access to compromised accounts. The social media giant is testing the use of video selfies and facial recognition to help users get their hijacked accounts...

Auto-Identification Smart Glasses

Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious--something similar was done in 2011--but the sort of creepy demo that gets attention. News article...