Google has warned of ongoing attacks targeting a pair of high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities impacting its Pixel smartphones, including the bootloader information disclosure bug, tracked as CVE-2024-29745, and firmware privilege escalation flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-29748, reports The Hacker News.
Operational Technology (OT) security is concerned with protecting embedded, purpose-built technologies enabling our industrial processes. You also may have heard “adjacent” buzzwords like Internet of Things (IOT) and Fog (like “cloud” but close to the ground). OT security has significant challenges in terms of cost/size/weight, capability, ability ...
Almost 30 malicious VPN apps with proxyware enabled by a Golang library allowed Android devices to perform as residential proxies that could be leveraged for illicit cyber activity as part of the PROXYLIB operation, reports The Hacker News.
BleepingComputer reports that numerous remote access VPN services were observed by Cisco to have been targeted by password-spraying attacks suspected to be part of a reconnaissance operation.
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