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β€ŠVoltSchemer attacks use wireless chargers to inject voice commands, fry phones

A team of academic researchers show that a new set of attacks called 'VoltSchemer' can inject voice commands to manipulate a smartphone's voice assistant through the magnetic field emitted by an off-the-shelf wireless charger. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/voltschemer-attacks-use-wireless-chargers-to-inject-voice-commands-fry-phones/
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β€ŠVMware urges admins to remove deprecated, vulnerable auth plug-in

VMware urged admins today to remove a discontinued authentication plugin exposed to authentication relay and session hijack attacks in Windows domain environments via two security vulnerabilities left unpatched. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vmware-urges-admins-to-remove-deprecated-vulnerable-auth-plug-in/
β€ŠUS offers $15 million bounty for info on LockBit ransomware gang

The U.S. State Department is now also offering rewards of up to $15 million to anyone who can provide information about LockBit ransomware gang members and their associates. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-offers-15-million-bounty-for-info-on-lockbit-ransomware-gang/
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β€ŠFraudsters tried to scam Apple out of 5,000 iPhones worth over $3 million

Two Chinese nationals face 20 years in prison after being caught and convicted of submitting over 5,000 fake iPhones worth more than $3 million to Apple with the goal of having them replaced with genuine devices. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fraudsters-tried-to-scam-apple-out-of-5-000-iphones-worth-over-3-million/
β€ŠMicrosoft finally expands free loggingβ€”but only for govt agencies

Microsoft has expanded free Purview Audit logging capabilities for all U.S. federal agencies six months after disclosing that Chinese hackers stole U.S. government emails undetected in an Exchange Online breach between May and June 2023. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-finally-expands-free-logging-but-only-for-govt-agencies/
β€ŠLockBit ransomware secretly building next-gen encryptor before takedown

LockBit ransomware developers were secretly building a new version of their file encrypting malware, dubbed LockBit-NG-Dev - likely a future LockBit 4.0, when law enforcement took down the cybercriminal's infrastructure earlier this week. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lockbit-ransomware-secretly-building-next-gen-encryptor-before-takedown/
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β€ŠMassive AT&T outage impacts US mobile subscribers

Tens of thousands of U.S. customers from Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T have been complaining about lack of wireless service or interruptions on Thursday morning. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mobile/massive-atandt-outage-impacts-us-mobile-subscribers/
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β€ŠFTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the users' web browsing data or licensing it for advertising purposes. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-to-ban-avast-from-selling-browsing-data-for-advertising-purposes/
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β€ŠBitwarden’s new auto-fill option adds phishing resistance

The Bitwarden open-source password management service has introduced a new inline auto-fill menu that addresses the risk of user credentials being stolen through malicious form fields. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bitwardens-new-auto-fill-option-adds-phishing-resistance/
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β€ŠMicrosoft has started testing Wi-Fi 7 support in Windows 11

Microsoft is testing support for Wi-Fi 7 in Windows 11, which offers multi-gigabit speeds and improved throughput, latency, and reliability compared to previous Wi-Fi generations. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-has-started-testing-wi-fi-7-support-in-windows-11/
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β€ŠUnitedHealth confirms Optum hack behind US healthcare billing outage

Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group confirmed that its subsidiary Optum was forced to shut down IT systems and various services after a cyberattack by "nation-state" hackers on the Change Healthcare platform. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unitedhealth-confirms-optum-hack-behind-us-healthcare-billing-outage/