There is an interesting post at f-secure blog: “Take A Note of SpyNote” Malware may install itself on your phone (if you allow it) and then it will ask you all kinds of questions like: “When you want to install the application, a notification appears asking for permission to access phone calls, photos and videos, … Read more
I am including 3 possible Facebook(Meta) messenger scam attacks – also known as Social engineering attacks. Yes there are also Facebook Messenger attacks. What are they? what if somebody messages you and asks a number of possible questions: A. “Remove this image from your facebook page immediately it affects us” B. Can I buy this? … Read more
Linuxsecurity.com has the story RCE means Remote Code Execution which means that the attacker does not need an account to make a successful attack. This vulnerability is rated 9.8 out of 10 thus it is very high. “Two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSH (CVE-2023-28531 and CVE-2023-38408). Because these bugs … Read more
Hackers have found ways to add notification code behind the website code. Thus if you say Allow in the notification window: then eventually a ‘bad’ notification comes up: Here is an example of ‘bad’ or hacker initiated notifications: Here is where cybernews.com had the story and the investigation by cybernews showed the details … Read more
The SC Magazine has a story about this phenomenon: ‘Big Head’ malware threat looms, warn researchers: “In a report posted Friday, Trend Micro said while there was no evidence as yet Big Head had been used successfully, its developers appeared to be experienced, although possibly not sophisticated, threat actors.” The way it is being spread … Read more
