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❗️ A critical Signal bug let the other person on a call keep listening after you hung up.

Flooding the call's event queue could stall your hang-up, leaving your mic and possibly your camera live.

Signal patched CVE-2026-113380 on Android in September. No attacks are known.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115591945250816455
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❗️ Google's and Meta's Pacific cables rank 3rd and 5th of 32 for sabotage risk in a report for Congress's US-China commission.

A separate CSIS study tracked a Chinese research ship mapping US-linked cables on the high seas off Guam.

Neither cable is even in service yet.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115607044749189336
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‼️ Putin says Russia is in "close contact" with Elon Musk so their satellites don't "interfere with each other" in orbit.

He called Musk "a real genius" beside a satellite from Rassvet, Russia's answer to Starlink.

2 weeks ago, SpaceX throttled Ukraine's Starlink drone links.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115622144180957582
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❗️ The FCC votes Nov 19 on letting state prisons and jails jam inmates' phones for the first time.

Chair Brendan Carr would sidestep a US jamming ban by ruling the phones unauthorised.

Incarcerated journalists say those phones exposed abuse the DOJ found in Georgia prisons.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115637243876376971
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‼️ Monero swap site https://t.co/8SieTIvG8L confirmed 3 months of its data leaked after a $5M extortion demand.

Hudson Rock found 4,580 orders tying a public crypto deposit to a Monero address and the IP behind it.

The leak still holds 4,002 orders flagged as deleted by users.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115652343421186137
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❗️ Meta-backed Scale AI faces 5 GDPR complaints for allegedly surveilling the freelancers who train AI for OpenAI and Google.

Privacy group noyb says a tracker logs their typing and mouse moves, and they must film their face to earn money.

Scale calls the claims "unfounded".

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115666939338994151
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‼️ Meta staff weighed a "whisper strategy" to turn academics against Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, court filings show.

The March 2023 notes set a goal to "get the academic community to disavow Haidt".

"Can't co-opt them, so how do we enrage them," they add.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115682542154326101
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‼️ The FBI sent a paid informant to "befriend" an autistic teen on X three days after he turned 18, his lawyer says.

The motion says the FBI had found him no threat, then had the informant call him "Emir" and send him FBI-made propaganda.

He is charged with trying to aid ISIS.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115697641728225289
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‼️ Security firm Calif says iOS 27.2 kills most of the bugs it used to jailbreak an iPhone 18 Pro through Memory Integrity Enforcement, Apple's anti-spyware hardware.

Apple credits Calif on 6 of the 163 fixes.

The jailbreak survived a reboot, and Calif says AI helped build it.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115712741310693598
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❗️ Apple can now ask iPhone users in the UK and three other countries to scan their face to prove they're adults.

iOS 27.2 judges the selfie on the phone and in Apple's cloud before 18+ app downloads in Australia, Brazil and Singapore too.

Even a software update can trigger it.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115727840679543038
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❗️ The US Treasury sanctioned two Russians it says converted millions in crypto for North Korea's IT worker scheme.

Ilya Boykov alone handled $3.5M of it since 2024.

A North Korean-run outfit in Russia was hit too. Treasury says its IT workers use "Super Intelligence" tools.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115742940375162916
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