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PT-2024-14390 · Trend Micro · Trend Micro Apex One
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Trend Micro Apex One affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to an anti-spyware engine link following vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on affected installations. To exploit this...
Trend Micro Apex One Anti-Spyware Engine Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Trend Micro Apex One Security Agent. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within...
What It’s Like to Use Apple’s Lockdown Mode
If you're at high risk of being targeted by mercenary spyware, or just don't mind losing iOS features for extra security, the company's restricted mode is surprisingly usable...
iPhone Spyware Exploits Obscure Chip Feature, Targets Researchers
By Deeba Ahmed Triangulation of Terror: Inside the Most Sophisticated iPhone Spyware Campaign Ever Seen. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: iPhone Spyware Exploits Obscure Chip Feature, Targets Researchers...
Most Sophisticated iPhone Hack Ever Exploited Apple's Hidden Hardware Feature
The Operation Triangulation spyware attacks targeting Apple iOS devices leveraged never-before-seen exploits that made it possible to even bypass pivotal hardware-based security protections erected by the company. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which discovered the campaign at the beginnin...
Experts Detail Multi-Million Dollar Licensing Model of Predator Spyware
A new analysis of the sophisticated commercial spyware called Predator has revealed that its ability to persist between reboots is offered as an "add-on feature" and that it depends on the licensing options opted by a customer. "In 2021, Predator spyware couldn't survive a reboot on the infected...
Intellexa and Cytrox: From fixer-upper to Intel Agency-grade spyware
By Mike Gentile, Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura. Editors note: This blog post is a public version of a talk presented at LabsCon 2023 on Sept. 22, 2023. You can watch a recording of the talk here. Some of the intelligence presented at LabsCon was later confirmed by an Amnesty International blo...
Update now! Apple issues patches for older iPhones and other devices
Apple has issued emergency updates that include patches for older iOS devices concerning the two actively used zero-day vulnerabilities that were patched last week in newer devices. Updates are available for: Safari 17.2| macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura| ---|---|--- iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2|...
IT threat evolution in Q3 2023. Mobile statistics
IT threat evolution in Q3 2023 IT threat evolution in Q3 2023. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2023. Mobile statistics These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures Accordin...
Zero-Day Alert: Apple Rolls Out iOS, macOS, and Safari Patches for 2 Actively Exploited Flaws
Apple has released software updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild on older versions of its software. The vulnerabilities, both of which reside in the WebKit web browser engine, are describe...
Indian Hack-for-Hire Group Targeted U.S., China, and More for Over 10 Years
An Indian hack-for-hire group targeted the U.S., China, Myanmar, Pakistan, Kuwait, and other countries as part of a wide-ranging espionage, surveillance, and disruptive operation for over a decade. Indian security firm under scrutiny, according to an in-depth analysis from SentinelOne, began as a...
Stealthy Kamran Spyware Targeting Urdu-speaking Users in Gilgit-Baltistan
Urdu-speaking readers of a regional news website that caters to the Gilgit-Baltistan region have likely emerged as a target of a watering hole attack designed to deliver a previously undocumented Android spyware dubbed Kamran. The campaign, ESET has discovered, leverages Hunza News...
A new video series, Google Forms spam and the various gray areas of cyber attacks
I found the juxtaposition of stories on the Talos blog over the past week-plus kind of funny. On one hand, we had a massive story about Arid Viper, a Middle Eastern threat actor spreading spyware, one of the most dangerous types of malware out there right now, operating out of Gaza no less. Then,...
CanesSpy Spyware Discovered in Modified WhatsApp Versions
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a number of WhatsApp mods for Android that come fitted with a spyware module dubbed CanesSpy. These modified versions of the instant messaging app have been observed propagated via sketchy websites advertising such modded software as well as Telegram...
Spyware in India
Apple has warned leaders of the opposition government in India that their phones are being spied on: Multiple top leaders of India’s opposition parties and several journalists have received a notification from Apple, saying that "Apple believes you are being targeted by state-sponsored attackers...
Arid Viper Targeting Arabic Android Users with Spyware Disguised as Dating App
The threat actor known as Arid Viper aka APT-C-23, Desert Falcon, or TAG-63 has been attributed as behind an Android spyware campaign targeting Arabic-speaking users with a counterfeit dating app designed to harvest data from infected handsets. "Arid Viper's Android malware has a number of featur...
Analysis of Intellexa’s Predator Spyware
Amnesty International has published a comprehensive analysis of the Predator government spyware products. These technologies used to be the exclusive purview of organizations like the NSA. Now theyre available to every country on the planet--democratic, nondemocratic, authoritarian, whatever--for...
SpyNote: Beware of This Android Trojan that Records Audio and Phone Calls
The Android banking trojan known as SpyNote has been dissected to reveal its diverse information-gathering features. Typically spread via SMS phishing campaigns, attack chains involving the spyware trick potential victims into installing the app by clicking on the embedded link, according to...
Hackers Target Israeli Rocket Alert App Users with Spyware
By Waqas If you've downloaded a rocket alert app from a third-party source, ensure it's spyware-free and delete it from your device. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Target Israeli Rocket Alert App Users with Spyware...