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Feb 28, 2024 | 
kaspersky.com | David Buxton |Stan Kaminsky |Sergey Puzan
Episode 335 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news that Apple are already preparing for a post-quantum world with their latest iMessage update. From there the team discuss criticism around Google’s ‘woke’ AI picture issues. Following that, the team wrap up with two stories, the first around Air Canada’s chatbot giving incorrect refund advice to a customer, and a spoon-bending magician says he was paid to create a fake Biden robocall.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
kaspersky.com | David Buxton |Roman Dedenok |Stan Kaminsky |Sergey Puzan
In today’s episode of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, the team look at news that companies at the fore-front of generative AI are looking to ‘take action’ on deceptive AI in upcoming elections. From there, the team discuss news that the Canadian government is set to take action against devices such as Flipper Zero, in an apparent fight against criminal activity. To wrap up, the team discuss news that international police agencies have taken down LockBit – the infamous ransomware gang.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
kaspersky.com | David Buxton |Sergey Puzan |Stan Kaminsky
Episode 333 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast dives into news that a site called ‘OnlyFakes’ is offering deepfake photo ID – the team also stay on the AI bandwagon with the next story which talks about the recent furore around illicit AI generated Taylor Swift images. From there the team discuss two final stories, the first around a virus that was released onto the Valhiem gaming Discord channels, causing havoc as it was spread.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
kaspersky.com | Enoch Root |David Buxton |Sergey Puzan |Stan Kaminsky
An article in Science Magazine published mid-January describes a non-trivial method of snooping on smartphone users through an ambient light sensor. All smartphones and tablets have this component built-in — as do many laptops and TVs. Its primary task is to sense the amount of ambient light in the environment the device finds itself in, and to alter the brightness of the display accordingly.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
kaspersky.com | David Buxton |Sergey Puzan |Stan Kaminsky
Episode 332 of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks off with news that, after the recent AI generated sketch, George Carlin’s estate has decided to pursue legal matters against the creators. From there, discussion turns to Mozilla’s worry about Apple’s new browser rules and British law makers question the legality of live facial recognition. To wrap up, the team discuss news around the recent 23andMe data breach. If you like what you heard, please consider subscribing.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
kaspersky.com | Alexey Sadylko |Sergey Puzan |Alanna Titterington
On January 30, security researchers published information about a vulnerability they discovered in the glibc (GNU C Library), which could potentially allow attackers elevate their privileges on Linux systems to root level. The library provides system calls and basic system functions – including syslog and vsyslog, which are used to write messages to the system message log. The vulnerability has received the identifier CVE-2023-6246, and a score of 8.4 on the CVSS v3.1 scale.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
kaspersky.com | Sergey Puzan |Stan Kaminsky |Alanna Titterington
Using cracked games or apps to spread malware is one of cybercriminals’ oldest tricks. Incredible as it may sound, gullible victims who believe in Robin Hoods and consider downloading cracked software and games from pirating websites to be absolutely safe still exist in 2024. The type of threat itself may be old, but malicious actors keep coming up with new ways of circumventing security on victims’ computers to deliver malware.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
securelist.com | Boris Larin |Sergey Puzan |Sergey Lozhkin |Anna Pavlovskaya
Today, on December 27, 2023, we (Boris Larin, Leonid Bezvershenko, and Georgy Kucherin) delivered a presentation, titled, “Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers”, at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), held at Congress Center Hamburg. The presentation summarized the results of our long-term research into Operation Triangulation, conducted with our colleagues, Igor Kuznetsov, Valentin Pashkov, and Mikhail Vinogradov.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
securelist.com | Sergey Puzan |Anton Kivva |Igor Kuznetsov |Anna Pavlovskaya
IntroductionThe crimeware landscape is diverse. Cybercriminals try to capitalize on their victims in every possible way by distributing various types of malware designed for different platforms. In recent months, we have written private reports on a wide range of topics, such as new cross-platform ransomware, macOS stealers and malware distribution campaigns. In this article, we share excerpts from our reports on the FakeSG campaign, the Akira ransomware and the AMOS stealer.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
securelist.com | Kaspersky Security |Sergey Puzan |Anton Kivva |David Emm
Every year is abundant with major data leaks, biggest data breaches and hacks drawing massive media attention (such as Medibank and Optus data breach, Twitter data breach, and Uber and Rockstar compromise in 2022 and in T-Mobile, MailChimp and OpenAI in 2023). But are we really conscious of the true scale of the threat? To find out, in 2022 we created a list of 700 companies worldwide from different industries: industrial, telecommunication, financial, retail, and others.
