🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Spanish police photo of Cellebrite Touch 2 unit being used on a suspects iPhone (6S plus?) and big bay desktop for forensics analysis. Used in article of recent arrest of a hacker who targetted NATO and Aircraft systems, known online as "natohub". policia.es/_es/comunicaci…

NEW: Paragon has reportedly cut ties with Italy and disconnected two local customers from the company's surveillance systems. The decision comes after allegations that Italian government may have abused the system to spy on a journalist and an activist.

Looking for some weekend reading? I recently published a deep technical dive into *all* the new macOS malware of 2024 🍎🐛 The report covers: 💉 Infection vectors 💾 Persistence mechanisms 🔓 Capabilities & features 🛡️ Detection methods Check it out! 👇 objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x7D…

16 years ago, I started the daily SANS Internet Storm Center "Stormcast." Hoping that it still helps to make the tens of thousands of listeners "Sound Smarter" as they get to work in the morning. It can be challenging to stay updated in information security and to cut through the

NEW: Apple has turned off end-to-end encrypted iCloud in the UK. The unprecedented move comes after the British government demanded a backdoor into the cloud service. New users can't opt-in, users who already have it will have to disable it sometime soon, the company said.

Full story here: techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/app…

Ah, yes, encryption--the math that enables authentication, commerce, cybersecurity, the human right to privacy on which our networked world depends--is bad bc <spins wheel of bad guys> "pedophiles" <spins wheel of verbs> "love it most" Just profoundly unserious!

Meredith Whittaker I thought I’d spreed some awareness of how fking useless the move is as well!

NEW: Another stalkerware app, called Spyzie, exposed the data of more than 500,000 victims. Spyzie had a bug, the same one that affected stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic, that allowed anyone to access messages, photos, and location data, exfiltrated from any infected device.

NEW: Google fixed three zero-day vulnerabilities in Android that were used by authorities to unlock phones with Cellebrite forensic tools. The fixes come after Amnesty alerted Google, following the analysis of a Serbian student protester's phone. techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/res…

I'm sure this is fine.

The LastPass incident really demonstrates the value in 1Password's architecture where "all the data held by AgileBits is insufficient to verify a correct guess at someone’s account password." Don't be or use centralized single points of security failure. agilebits.github.io/security-desig…

Apple will (finally!) bring TCC events to Endpoint Security in macOS 15.4 🥳 I've just posted "TCCing is Believing" which covers details, nuances, and PoC code for the new 'ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_TCC_MODIFY' event objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x7F…

NEW: A recently published court document shows the locations of WhatsApp victims targeted with NSO Group's spyware. The document lists 1,223 victims in 51 countries, including Mexico, India, United Kingdom, United States, etc. This was over a span of ~ two months in 2019.

Full story here: techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/cou…

I founded an organization called Crypto(graphy)Harlem bsky.app/profile/crypto… almost 11 years ago. It's dope to see the fresh direction CH is going. Hacktivists looking out for the rights of all people. if you wanna know how to "Get Ready Stay Ready" hacker style! Then swing

A team of journalists in Norway spent a year secretly monitoring a credit card fraud gang to uncover who's behind it and how they operate. Here's the story -- in English -- of how they unmasked Darcula and the crime-as-a-service software Magic Cat. nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/…

When I first made vx-underground my dog was right beside me. Every single day; morning, afternoon, or night, he would be in my office while I worked. He was there right beside me when I was working on some research projects, working on Black Mass, restructuring or reorganizing