Android botnet BadBox largely disrupted

Removing 24 malicious apps from the Google Play store and silencing some servers almost halved a botnet known as BadBox. The BadBox botnet focuses on Android devices, but not just phones. It also affects other devices like TV streaming boxes, tablets, and smart TVs. The German BSI Federal Office...

CVE-2022-40250

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges from ring 0 to ring -2, execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode - an environment more privileged than operating system OS and completely isolated from it. Running arbitrary code in SMM additionally bypasses SMM-based SPI...