The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones

A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country's telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued...

The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones

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Stolen iPhones could soon be worth a lot less to thieves

The UK’s Metropolitan Police has reached an agreement with Apple designed to make stolen iPhones harder to resell and less attractive to thieves. The approach combines stronger technical protections with direct data sharing between Apple and law enforcement. In 2023, about 1.4 million mobile phon...

A tale of two eras

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. To the surprise of absolutely no one who has seen my face, I'm one of the younger employees at Talos. As my industry veteran colleagues were buying the first iPods, navigating the switch from dial-up to broadband, saying goodbye to...

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones...

CVE-2026-49491

Pixa Bank 2.0 contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data by injecting SQL code into the 'rib' parameter. Attackers can send POST requests to the agence-ajax.php endpoint with UNION-based SQL payloads to retrieve user information includi...

CVE-2026-0826: Critical unauthenticated stack buffer overflow in HP Poly VVX and Trio VoIP Phones (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against an HP Poly VVX 450 Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP phone. This research resulted in the discovery of a critical unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability, CVE-2026-0826. A remote attacker can leverage CVE-2026-08...

PT-2026-45617

Pixa Bank 2.0 contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data by injecting SQL code into the 'rib' parameter. Attackers can send POST requests to the agence-ajax.php endpoint with UNION-based SQL payloads to retrieve user information includi...

CVE-2026-2262

The Easy Appointments WordPress plugin (up to version 3.12.21) exposes sensitive customer data via the REST endpoint /wp-json/wp/v2/eablocks/ea_appointments/ because permission_callback is set to __return_true. This allows unauthenticated access to full names, email addresses, phone numbers, IP a...

CVE-2026-2262 Easy Appointments <= 3.12.21 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via REST API

The Easy Appointments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.21 via the /wp-json/wp/v2/eablocks/eaappointments/ REST API endpoint. This is due to the endpoint being registered with 'permissioncallback' = 'returntrue', which...

CVE-2026-2262

The Easy Appointments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.21 via the /wp-json/wp/v2/eablocks/eaappointments/ REST API endpoint. This is due to the endpoint being registered with 'permissioncallback' = 'returntrue', which...

CVE-2026-33045

Home Assistant is open source home automation software that puts local control and privacy first. Starting in version 2025.02 and prior to version 2026.01 the "remaining charge time"-sensor for mobile phones imported/included from Android Auto it appears is vulnerable cross-site scripting, simila...

Criminals are renting virtual phones to bypass bank security

Researchers at Group-IB warn about criminals using virtual Android devices to bypass modern security solutions. Cloud phones are virtual Android devices that can fully mimic real device fingerprints model, hardware, IP, timezone, sensor data, behavior. This allows them to undermine banks’...

PT-2026-27049

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ReviewX – WooCommerce Product Reviews with Multi-Criteria, Reminder Emails, Google Reviews, Schema & More plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 2.2.12 Description The ReviewX plugin for WordPress is susceptible to exposure of...

CVE-2026-1980

The WPBookit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data disclosure due to a missing authorization check on the 'getcustomerlist' route in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve sensitive customer information includin...

ZITADEL 安全漏洞

ZITADEL is a modern open-source alternative to Auth0, Firebase Auth, AWS Cognito, and Keycloak, developed by ZITADEL in Switzerland for the era of containers and serverless architectures. Versions of ZITADEL prior to 4.11.1 and 3.4.7 contain security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stem fr...

The Phone is Listening: A Cold War–Style Vulnerability in Modern VoIP

I don’t know about you, but when I think about “critical vulnerabilities,” I usually picture ransomware, data theft, or maybe a server falling over at 2 a.m. while someone frantically searches Slack for the last good backup. What I don’t picture is a scene straight out of a Cold War spy film...

CVE-2026-25729

DeepAudit is a multi-agent system for code vulnerability discovery. In 3.0.4 and earlier, there is an improper access control vulnerability in the /api/v1/users/ endpoint allows any authenticated user to enumerate all users in the system and retrieve sensitive information including email addresse...

CVE-2026-1431 Booking Calendar <= 10.14.13 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Booking Details Exposure

The Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the wpbcajaxWPBCFLEXTIMELINENAV function in all versions up to, and including, 10.14.13. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve booking information...

Cisco IP Phones Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor (CVE-2025-20336)

A vulnerability in the directory permissions of Cisco Desk Phone 9800 Series, Cisco IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series, and Cisco Video Phone 8875 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because the product expose...