Summary The international press has been celebrating the election of the first woman president in Mexico recently, but the positive news is hiding a much more serious situation in Mexico. In essence, cartel violence all over Mexico and the government’s… Continue Reading
Ok, we’re being a little silly here, but in a sense it’s true – a new campaign is being carried out somewhere within the manufacturing/supply chain process related to Android phones, placing a firmware backdoor on them before they are… Continue Reading
Google has launched a new bug bounty program, the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), designed to pay researchers for discovering security vulnerabilities found in the Android operating system. In-scope applications for the program include: Chrome Remote Desktop (com.google.chromeremotedesktop) Google Chrome… Continue Reading
3Commas, a cryptocurrency trading platform, recently confirmed that 10,000 API keys recently stolen from the platform were released into the wild, announced via an anonymous Twitter post last week. Key points: 3Commas is linked to several major crypto exchanges, including… Continue Reading
First Known Appearance (Date) 2018 Delivery Method Distributed via a Word File entitled “Sia_Sim.docx”, which contains a VBA macro. The macro must be initiated by the user, or can be initiated by an executable which is installed as part of… Continue Reading
It’s not much of a secret that the Chinese have been spying heavily within the U.S. for a long time now, but the last 5 or 6 years have been especially heavy. Chinese intelligence agents, both legal and illegal, appear… Continue Reading
Stanford University routinely monitors the wastewater treatment systems of a number of bay-area municipalities, including San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Sacramento, among others. This system, know as SCAN (Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network) provides a unique view and detection of a… Continue Reading
Things appear to be heating up in Ukraine, as Russian forces continue to amass on the edge of Ukraine, in full view of the world. Putin continues to deny everything, but the overhead shots and information coming in from, well,… Continue Reading
It’s not hard to find a lot of signs of unrest in the US today – from the Black Lives Matter riots on one hand to the January 6th riot on the other, along a whole host of other incidents,… Continue Reading
In July of last year, a drone was used in an apparent attack on a power substation in Pennsylvania. The person or persons behind the attack have not been caught. To say that this is concerning should be an understatement.… Continue Reading