George Garofano Sentenced for High-Profile Celebrity Hack In a significant development within the cybersecurity landscape, George Garofano has been sentenced to eight months in prison for hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to notable celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Kardashian. This sentencing follows his guilty plea to…
Recent findings from cybersecurity researchers have unveiled a sophisticated post-exploit technique on iOS 16 that could allow attackers to maintain covert access to Apple devices, even when users believe their devices are disconnected. This method leverages a deceptive form of Airplane Mode, manipulating the user interface to mislead victims while…
New Exploit Enables Crash of iPhones, iPads, and Macs In 2018, a newly discovered exploit allows for the crashing and rebooting of any iPhone, iPad, or Mac through a simple web page that utilizes a few lines of code. This vulnerability underscores significant security concerns within Apple’s operating systems and…
Recent media revelations have unveiled a large-scale supply chain attack that stands as one of the most significant corporate espionage and hardware hacking incidents attributed to a nation-state. A report released by Bloomberg today details the discovery of diminutive surveillance chips, comparable in size to a grain of rice, embedded…
Apple Issues Urgent Security Patches for Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities On Thursday, Apple announced the immediate release of emergency security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to rectify two critical zero-day vulnerabilities. These flaws had already been leveraged in attacks to deploy the notorious Pegasus spyware developed by the NSO…
On Tuesday, Mozilla released urgent security updates addressing a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting both Firefox and Thunderbird, identified as CVE-2023-4863. This flaw has been actively exploited in the wild, prompting the need for immediate remediation. The vulnerability pertains to a heap buffer overflow in the WebP image format, which could…
Microsoft has issued an update addressing 59 vulnerabilities across its suite of products, including two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that have already been exploited by malicious actors. This release highlights the ongoing threat landscape, with the tech giant emphasizing the risks posed by active exploitation of these flaws. Among the 59…
Apple Addresses Three Critical Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Latest Security Update Apple has recently issued a series of security patches aimed at addressing three zero-day vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited across its platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari. This latest update brings the total number of discovered zero-day…
Apple has recently addressed three significant zero-day vulnerabilities, reported on September 21, 2023. These flaws were exploited to form part of an attack chain targeting former Egyptian parliament member Ahmed Eltantawy. Between May and September 2023, this attack aimed to deliver a spyware variant known as Predator, raising serious concerns…
