Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
For the less technical
- Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to refuse
- Google releases “disable 2g” feature for new Android smartphones
- Some European carriers are already blocking Apple’s Private Relay feature on the iPhone
- Signal’s cryptocurrency feature has gone worldwide
- Third-party software for Teslas can be hacked, german teen says
- How AI could prevent the development of new illicit drugs
- EDPS orders Europol to erase data concerning individuals with no established link to a criminal activity
- Russia detains REvil ransomware hackers after notification from US
- Literary mystery may finally be solved as man arrested for allegedly stealing unpublished books
- UniCC – the largest dark web vendor of stolen credit cards – retires after raking in $358 million in crypto
For the more technical
- Microsoft Patch Tuesday – January 2022
- Wormable Windows HTTP hole – what you need to know
- CVE-2021-20038: Technical analysis
- NetUSB RCE flaw in millions of end user routers
- Signed kernel drivers – Unguarded gateway to Windows’ core
- Linux full-disk encryption bug fixed
- Analyzing an old bug and discovering CVE-2021-30995
- WordPress core vulnerabilities hits millions of sites
- Exploiting URL parsing confusion
- Dev corrupts NPM libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ breaking thousands of apps
- New SysJoker backdoor targets Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Ransomware actor may have leaked their previous victims
- Project Torogoz: Extensive hacking of media & civil society in El Salvador with Pegasus spyware
- Understanding and mitigating Russian state-sponsored cyber threats to U.S. critical infrastructure
- Destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations
- New Konni campaign kicks off the new year by targeting Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- North Korean hackers have prolific year as their unlaundered cryptocurrency holdings reach all-time high
- The BlueNoroff cryptocurrency hunt is still on
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