… It's really too easy.” An Apple spokesperson told WIRED in a statement that “every day Apple's security teams around the world work tirelessly to protect users' devices and data,” and noted that Apple had released security updates that would protect users from both Coruna and DarkSword, including e… …
… Apple now appears to be changing its position in an effort to protect those holdouts. “Tomorrow we are enabling the availability of an iOS 18 update for more devices so users with auto-update enabled can automatically receive important security protections,” an Apple spokesperson wrote in a stateme… …
… Brundage obsessively tracked the Kimwolf botnet, which he would learn had infected home networks around the world via devices that act as “residential proxies,” essentially offering backdoors into those networks. …
… Aisuru and Kimwolf, a distinct but Aisuru-related botnet, had together comprised more than a million devices, according to DDoS defense firm Cloudflare, with Aisuru infecting a variety of devices ranging from DVRs to network appliances to webcams, and its Kimwolf offshoot infecting Android devices … …
… Other posts linked to iRealm mention features such as “Find My iPhone nullified,” advertise “scripts” that mention Apple Pay, and say the software can provide a “seamless experience” for “accessing and unlocking Apple devices.” “Hello I have a dozen blocked iPhone limited to the owner,” one person … …
… Packaged with Google Dialer and shipping to phones running Android 12 or later, it pings the caller’s device for a silent cryptographic handshake. …
… The device will not automatically join nonsecure Wi-Fi networks, and 2G and 3G support is disabled. …
… Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck Imagine trying to explain this one to your boss: You can’t get to work because your court-mandated breathalyzer won’t let you start the vehicle—not because you’ve been drinking, you swear, but because that alcohol-vapor-detecting device ha… …
… On Bluesky, Signal posted that Signal Support would never ask users for a verification code or PIN via in-app messages, and that “if anyone asks for any Signal related code, it is a scam.” In the second type of attack, which WIRED has previously reported, Russian hackers trick a victim into scannin… …
… The groups argue that including face recognition in the wearable devices, which can already surreptitiously record videos of people, would further erode any semblance of privacy and potentially facilitate stalkers, domestic abusers, and federal agents. …