April 19, 2022
Russian airbase full of styrofoam planes. Which is probably a fire hazard.
Android app intelligence collection
Possible government links?
This is a crazy story. Precise location information from tens of millions of Android devices was being collected and sent to a company based in Virginia, although it was masquerading as Panamanian. They paid developers to include their malicious data theft library, which evades Android permissions, in a number of popular free* Android apps.
The library has bidirectional communications with the company’s servers, data goes out and commands?? come in. The amount of information collected is truly impressive. The library does trucks like send out service discovery packets to learn what devices are on the network. The tricks they exploit to gather intel without permission are pretty cool.
https://blog.appcensus.io/2022/04/06/the-curious-case-of-coulus-coelib/Google’s ban hammer.
https://www.pymnts.com/google/2022/google-weeds-data-harvesting-apps-from-play-store/A deep dive into conspiracy theories, how they spread in the modern age.
Looking at exploit dev.
Defense contractors are right to use game controllers. Why create something from scratch that’s strange to users? Just repurpose a tool with millions of dollars in design and hundreds or thousands of hours of practical experience by the user base.
Turns out, when training 18-20 y/os, using an interface theyre likely proficient with after a decade of gaming gives you a head start.
More experts weigh in on why cyber war doesn’t look like the movies.
Intrigue. Encryption. GCHQ. Its nowhere near that exciting though.
Duffleblog is here with the hard hitting news.
Museums and art are just absolutely awesome. A cabinet with a ceramic rooster that survived a Russia air strike is now preserved in a museum as a testament to e
Whatever you suspected about influencers marketing crypto, it’s probably true and they’re probably worse.
Mirai was an over achiever. Just wait for the free bother armies from lapsed IOT domains.
Seems like the UK can’t make nukes with the decrepit infrastructure they have.
The New York Times has discovered that the Slavic world is basically on Telegram for the social networking aspect. Something that is overlooked by everyone that does cyber security.
