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Serbian student’s Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite

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Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to compromise the phone of a Serbian student who had been critical of that country's government. The human rights organization first called out Serbian authorities in December for what it …

Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malicious hackers likely working on behalf of the Chinese government have been exploiting a high-severity zero-day vulnerability that allowed them to infect at least four US-based ISPs with malware that steals credentials used by downstream customers, researchers said Tuesday. The vulnerability resides in the Versa …

Threat actors exploited Windows 0-day for more than a year before Microsoft fixed it

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threat actors carried out zero-day attacks that targeted Windows users with malware for more than a year before Microsoft fixed the vulnerability that made them possible, researchers said Tuesday. The vulnerability, present in both Windows 10 and 11, causes devices to open Internet Explorer, a …