Mar 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Open Source Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale malvertising campaign that’s estimated to have impacted over one million devices globally as part of what it said is an opportunistic attack designed to steal sensitive information. The tech giant, which detected the activity in early December 2024, is tracking it … Read more
Updated on May 21, 2021, 1:30pm to include a statement from Cradlepoint Serious security vulnerabilities have been found in Bluetooth Core and Mesh Profile Specifications, which allow hackers to impersonate legitimate devices and carry on Man-in-the-Middle(MITM) attacks. Researchers from Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI) disclosed several vulnerabilities in the two Bluetooth specifications … Read more
Feb 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Cyber Espionage Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors have been observed targeting individuals of interest via the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to gain unauthorized access to their accounts. “The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts is the abuse of the app’s legitimate ‘linked devices’ … Read more
The Steam Deck is another good example. Early adopters might have been disappointed to see missing features like overclocking controls, per-game power profiles, or Windows drivers. Valve has since added those features. Valve only had a few dozen Hardware department employees in the run up to the launch of the Steam Deck. Credit: Sam Machkovech … Read more
With an eye on a future where bionic devices are commonplace as part of human augmentation, Kaspersky has designed a cybersecurity policy to mitigate security risks that augmentation technology can pose to corporate IT networks. “Human augmentation is a burgeoning area of technology which in fact remains underexplored. That’s why making a first step towards … Read more