In the context of cybersecurity, there are two types of developers. The first type develops applications that keep users safe and the other develops applications to harm or steal something of value from users. It's a never-ending race.
As an end user, it's your duty to stay informed. Who knows? Reading the right thing at the right time might be what you need to stop that attack against yourself or your organization.
‘Stanley’ Malware Toolkit Enables Phishing via Website Spoofing
The real threat of this malware toolkit: you can see the legitimate website URL in the web browser address bar and you are still on a phishing page! Wild, if you say.
There is no excerpt for this one. Go read the whole thing.
Drowning in spam or scam emails? Here’s probably why
Go through the article, check the list of possible causes of that increase in spam emails in your email, what to do, and what not to do in the future.
From the article:
Spammers don’t just source their email lists from large-scale data breaches. Some of them get hold of these details by using bots to scrape public-facing websites like social media platforms. Bad bot traffic accounts for 37% of all internet traffic. If your details were in the public domain, they may have been caught up in such a campaign.
WhatsApp Rolls Out Lockdown-Style Security Mode to Protect Targeted Users From Spyware
If you work in a sensitive industry or believe you could be a target of a cyber attack via WhatsApp, this setting is for you.
Here is how it works:
This lockdown-style feature bolsters your security on WhatsApp even further with just a few taps by locking your account to the most restrictive settings like automatically blocking attachments and media from unknown senders, silencing calls from people you don't know, and restricting other settings that may limit how the app works
Apple’s new iPhone and iPad security feature limits cell networks from collecting precise location data
Apple always aims to protect its users' privacy. This is yet another step forward in that direction.
Here is how the tech works:
According to Apple, the new feature, when enabled, limits the precision of location data that iPhones and cellular-enabled iPads share with the customer’s cell carrier. Sharing a less-precise location, such as the general neighborhood rather than a street address, will help to protect the device owner’s privacy, the company claims.
LLMs Hijacked, Monetized in ‘Operation Bizarre Bazaar’
With the popularity of LLM-powered chatbots, Agents, and MCP servers, this should not come as a surprise. Now, don't get me wrong: this has to do with self-hosted LLM infrastructure with inadequate security and not apps like ChatGPT or Claude.
From the article:
Exploited systems include Ollama instances on port 11434 without authentication, web-exposed OpenAI-compatible APIs on port 8000, exposed MCP servers with no access control, development environments with public IPs, and production chatbots that lack authentication or rate limits.
The operation, the company notes, is run by a threat actor using the moniker Hecker, who is also known as Sakuya and LiveGamer101
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Cover photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash.
That's it for this week, and I'll see you next time.
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