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If you use Apple iPhone or MacBook, here we have a piece of alarming news for you.Turns out merely visiting a website — not just malicious but also legitimate sites unknowingly loading malicious ads as well — using Safari browser could have let remote attackers secretly access your device's camera, microphone, or location, and in some cases, saved passwords as well.Apple recently paid a $

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Hackers Used Local News Sites to Install Spyware On iPhones

March 27, 2020 Ravie Lakshmanan

A newly discovered watering-hole campaign is targeting Apple iPhone users in Hong Kong by using malicious website links as a lure to install spyware on the devices.According to research published by Trend Micro and Kaspersky, the "Operation Poisoned News" attack leverages a remote iOS exploit chain to deploy a feature-rich implant called 'LightSpy' through links to local news websites, which

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New SIM Card Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Any Phone Just By Sending SMS

September 12, 2019 Unknown

Cybersecurity researchers today revealed the existence of a new and previously undetected critical vulnerability in SIM cards that could allow remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims just by sending an SMS.

Dubbed "SimJacker," the vulnerability resides in a particular piece of software, called the S@T Browser (a dynamic SIM toolkit), embedded on most SIM cards

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Apple will now pay hackers up to $1 million for reporting vulnerabilities

August 9, 2019 Unknown

Apple has just updated the rules of its bug bounty program by announcing a few major changes during a briefing at the annual Black Hat security conference yesterday.One of the most attractive updates is…Apple has enormously increased the maximum reward for its bug bounty program from $200,000 to $1 million—that's by far the biggest bug bounty offered by any major tech company for reporting

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iCloud Possibly Suffered A Privacy Breach Last Year That Apple Kept a Secret

January 30, 2019 Mohit Kumar

Late last year when an unknown group of hackers stole secret access tokens for millions of Facebook accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in its website, the company disclosed the incident and informed its affected users.Similarly, when Twitter was hit by multiple vulnerabilities (#1, #2, #3) in the last few months, the social media company disclosed those incidents and informed its affected

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Hackers Used Malicious MDM Solution to Spy On ‘Highly Targeted’ iPhone Users

July 13, 2018 Swati Khandelwal

Security researchers have uncovered a "highly targeted" mobile malware campaign that has been operating since August 2015 and found spying on 13 selected iPhones in India.The attackers, who are also believed to be operating from India, were found abusing mobile device management (MDM) protocol—a type of security software used by large enterprises to control and enforce policies on devices

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