With the current state of technology and the massive boom in the implementation of encryption libraries, decentralized, trustless infrastructure services, and cryptocurrencies, we can expect a gradual movement towards more resilience in the field of malware development.
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Sennheiser's HeadSetup software is installing a root certificate into the OS Trusted CA Certificate store. They have also put a private key on a device, the same one for all users, which allows any user to perform a man-in-the-middle SSL attacks against SSL communication.
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Researchers at the University of California have found that GPUs are vulnerable to side-channel attacks and demonstrated multiple types of attacks. After reverse engineering Nvidia GPU, researchers were able to steal rendered password box from a browser, sniffed other browser related data and also settings from the neural network computations on a GPU in the data center.
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The Czech Security Intelligence Service (BIS) shuts down Hezbollah servers in the Hezbollah hacking operation. Hackers used female Facebook profiles to trick victims into installing spyware.
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Linux had officially committed to implementing and obeying the Code of Conduct — which is immediately misused to remove top Linux coders. Some of the Linux developers are now threatening to withdraw the license to all of their code.
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Purism project introduced their own security token called the Librem Key. They have partnered with the Nitrokey manufacturer, but the firmware provides additional functionality, like a challenge response mode where the key informs you if the bios running on a PC has validated itself to the key.
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Researchers from the Palo Alto Networks analyzed new Mirai and Gafgyt IoT/Linux botnet campaigns. The samples used more than 11 exploits for spreading, exploiting D-Link, Dasan GPON routers.
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Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ devices, maybe others, are texting camera photos to random contacts through the Samsung Messages app without user permission.
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Yet another high severity attack against the Intel CPUs. Unpatched systems can leak SIMD, FP register state between privilege levels. These registers are used for private keys nowadays. The cost of a patch is more expensive context switches because the fix has to unload and reload all SIMD, FP state.
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Major (probably not only) US cell carriers are selling access to the real-time phone location data. Because, you know the Electronic Communications Privacy Act only restricts telecommunication companies from disclosing data to the government, it doesn't restrict disclosure to other companies. Which can resell back to the gov. Hacker News discussion on a topic is quite informative.
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