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.
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These vulnerable UEFI applications, primarily older versions of the shim bootloader, can allow attackers to execute untrusted code during system startup, according to ESET researcher Martin Smolár.
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