Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks. It’s the second such alert campaign from the company this year, following a similar notification sent to users in 92 nations in April. Since 2021, Apple has been regularly sending these notifications, reaching … Read more
This is the first Op-Ed of a Symposium on the Apple State Aid case ( C‑465/20 P). More Op-Eds will follow soon in EU Law Live. The recent final ruling on the Apple State-Aid case surprised many commentators, including this author, who trusted the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘the Court’) would be a … Read more
Oct 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Privacy / Mobile Security Apple has released iOS and iPadOS updates to address two security issues, one of which could have allowed a user’s passwords to be read out aloud by its VoiceOver assistive technology. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-44204, has been described as a logic problem in the new Passwords … Read more
A large-scale fraud campaign leveraged fake trading apps published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as phishing sites, to defraud victims, per findings from Group-IB. The campaign is part of a consumer investment fraud scheme that’s also widely known as pig butchering, in which prospective victims are lured into making … Read more
Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananDigital Actuality / Vulnerability Particulars have emerged a few now-patched safety flaw impacting Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional blended actuality headset that, if efficiently exploited, may permit malicious attackers to deduce knowledge entered on the machine’s digital keyboard. The assault, dubbed GAZEploit, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-40865. “A novel assault … Read more
