Dan Solove on Privacy Regulation Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and I think I finally made a breakthrough with this article.” His mini-abstract: In this Article I argue that most of the…

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With this system, the raw biometric information is never accessible to any software or system outside the module, including the phone’s own operating system. On the iPhone, this is called the secure enclave and is available on every phone with an Apple A7 chip or newer. The first phone with this technology was the iPhone…

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Apr 24, 2024NewsroomEncryption / Mobile Security Security vulnerabilities uncovered in cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal users’ keystrokes to nefarious actors. The findings come from the Citizen Lab, which discovered weaknesses in eight of nine apps from vendors like Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi. The only vendor whose…

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By looking at the table of supported IP protocols, we see that the bot creates raw packets of IGMP, ICMP and TCP protocols. Those packets are just being marked with those protocol numbers, however other fields and headers are not actually set. The packet is filled with “A” characters according to the size specified by…

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Shellshock can take advantage of HTTP headers as well as other mechanisms to enable unauthorized access to the underlying system shell, Bash. The Shellshock attack takes advantage of a flaw in Bash that enables attackers to execute remote commands that would ordinarily be blocked. It’s been rated the highest risk possible because remote command execution…

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Tinba, also known as “Tinybanker”, “Zusy” and “HµNT€R$”, is a banking Trojan that was first seen in the wild around May 2012. Its source code was leaked in July 2014. Cybercriminals customized the leaked code and created an even more sophisticated piece of malware that is being used to attack a large number of popular…

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  Dyre is one of the most sophisticated banking and commercial malware agents in the wild. This trojan uses fake login pages, server-side webinjects, and modular architecture to adapt to the victim. This in-depth report looks at the entire fraud flow and its capabilities. Dyre is a relatively new banking Trojan, first seen in the…

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VBKlip has evolved significantly from searching for IBAN data in copy-paste functionality to MITB techniques. Source link lol

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  Slave is financial malware written in Visual Basic. Since 2015 it has evolved from relatively simple IBAN swapping of destination bank account numbers to stealthy browser infection, function hooking, and unique webinjects. Slave conducts its attack by hooking the Internet browser functions and manipulating their code for various fraudulent activities. This manipulation can be…

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Renewed Dyre Commands Dyre uses a windows pipe for inter-process communication, passing commands from the main module it injects into the “windows explorer’ process to other processes. The commands are passed both to browsers launched by the user and stealthy worker-processes launched by the malware itself. In the new sample, most of the commands discussed…

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