La technique utilisée, qui consiste à jailbreaker l’iPhone depuis un simple lien ouvert sur un navigateur, rappelle très fortement la faille achetée 1 million de dollars en novembre 2015 par Zerodium, une société française créée par Chaouki Bekrar, qui avait publiquement offert une telle somme à qui lui fournirait la solution.
Source : Comment une faille de sécurité sur iOS permettait d’espionner des dissidents – Tech – Numerama
With root privilege, the malware can then receive remote instructions on which app to download and silently install on mobile devices. This can then lead to affected users receiving unwanted apps, which may then lead to unwanted ads. Even worse, these threats can also be used to install backdoors and spy on users.
If placed strategically in an office or other location where individuals might use wireless devices, a malicious cyber actor could potentially harvest personally identifiable information, intellectual property, trade secrets, passwords, or other sensitive information.
Source : Beware of keystroke loggers disguised as USB phone chargers, FBI warns | Ars Technica
“If the government can circumvent the process merely by buying vulnerabilities, then the process becomes a farce. The FBI is not interested in cybersecurity.’’
Source : FBI Plans to Keep Apple iPhone-Hacking Method Secret – WSJ
Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply before their physical appeal is judged by the existing user base, who vote on who is allowed in to the “elite” club based on looks alone. All of this, of course, is supposed to remain confidential. But much of that supposedly-private information is now public, thanks to the leak of a database containing sensitive data of 1.1 million BeautifulPeople.com users.
Hackers can read text messages, listen to phone calls and track mobile phone users’ locations with just the knowledge of their phone number using a vulnerability in the worldwide mobile phone network infrastructure.
Source : SS7 hack explained: what can you do about it? | Technology | The Guardian
Nos serveurs sont attaqués des dizaines de fois par jour. Tous les trois mois environ, un hacker trouve le moyen de déjouer les systèmes de sécurité. La dernière intrusion date d’il y a une semaine. Des pirates sont parvenus à véhiculer un malware au travers du nom de domaine 20minutes.ch. Un fichier Flash infecté en était à l’origine. Ce script tentait d’installer le virus d’un site tiers grâce aux lacunes des ordinateurs des utilisateurs. Ce logiciel malveillant, le cheval de Troie Gozi, a finalement été retiré par notre service informatique.
Source : 20 Minutes
Private files belonging to America’s biggest police union, including the names and addresses of officers, forum posts critical of Barack Obama, and controversial contracts made with city authorities, were posted online after a hacker breached its website.
Source : Hackers post private files of America’s biggest police union | US news | The Guardian
The attack comes five weeks after Ukraine’s power grid was successfully disrupted in what’s believed to be the world’s first-known hacker-caused power outage. Researchers still aren’t sure if the malware known as BlackEnergy was the direct cause of the blackout, but they have confirmed the malicious package infected at least three of the regional power authorities that were involved in the outage. Researchers have since said the attack was extremely well coordinated.
Source : Israel’s electric authority hit by “severe” hack attack (Updated) | Ars Technica
The High-Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection (HDCP) version 2.2 or higher is still believed to be secure today, but there are signs that pirates have found a way to bypass the protection. Earlier this year the first 4K Netflix leak surfaced. After that it went quiet. However, a few days ago something changed, as many more releases started to appear online.
Source : Pirates Can Now Rip 4K Content From Netflix and Amazon – TorrentFreak
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