A week in security (January 12 – January 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: WhisperPair exposes Bluetooth earbuds and headphones to tracking and eavesdropping Dutch police sell fake tickets to show how easily scams work "Reprompt" attack lets attackers steal data from Microsoft Copilot Phishing scammers are posting fake "account restricted...

Another IE Exploit Targeting Defense Industry Discovered

Another malicious website has been discovered hosting an exploit for the zero-day vulnerability Internet Explorer patched by Microsoft last week. This site, like the other exploits discovered, targets the defense and space industries, and is dropping an unknown payload, according to Barracuda Lab...

New attack sneaks rootkits into Linux kernel

From DarkReading Kelly Jackson Higgins Kernel rootkits are tough enough to detect, but now a researcher has demonstrated an even sneakier method of hacking Linux. The attack exploits dtors.org PDF an oft-forgotten function in Linux versions 2.4 and above in order to quietly insert a rootkit into...