The update also described patches for High and Moderate level vulnerabilities which could allow similar attacks, all of which were contained in the devices' Media Framework, Broadcom, Kernal. MediaTek, and Qualcomm components.
Google has released a security update for its Chrome operating system in order to address the critical BroadPwn security bug that can be exploited to remotely control devices.
Cybercriminals have updated the functionality of the popular Svpeng mobile banking trojan giving it keylogger capabilities and the ability to access the text input from almost all of a devices apps.
Under the act device makers couldn't hardcore passwords, which have been exploited in the past to spread malware like in the recent Mirai attacks, into products sold to the government.
Two decades from now, warring adversaries could conceivably attack each other by sabotaging a population's IoT consumer devices en masse, respected cybersecurity expert Mikko Hypponen predicted at Black Hat on Thursday.
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