Following insights from The Register, DEF CON, a prominent cybersecurity conference, has announced a ban on Meta-style glasses equipped with recording capabilities ahead of its upcoming event in Las Vegas.
A new Mirai-derived botnet, dubbed Tengu, was identified with advanced persistence and self-defense mechanisms, including the ability to use a compromised Linux device's hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when its main process is terminated, according to a recent report by The Hacker News.
Based on information from Dark Reading, security researchers identified a new class of vulnerabilities, dubbed "PleaseFix," that significantly compromise the security of agentic browsers, potentially leading to account takeover and remote system compromise.
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American man for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, a case believed to be the first of its kind in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a "duress" password, as first reported by TechCrunch.
A banking Trojan known as Lampion, believed to have originated in Brazil, is still actively used in ongoing attacks targeting Portuguese organizations.
