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CIA Whistleblower Found Guilty of Leaking Vault 7 Documents to WikiLeaks

By Deeba Ahmed The Vault 7 leak included trojans, viruses, malware, zero-day exploits, malware remote control systems, and related documents dating… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CIA Whistleblower Found Guilty of Leaking Vault 7 Documents to WikiLeaks

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Ex-CIA Programmer Found Guilty of Stealing Vault 7 Data, Giving It to Wikileaks

Joshua Schulte has been convicted for his role in the Vault 7 Wikileaks data dump that exposed invasive US cyber intelligence tactics.

CVE-2022-31156: Gradle 7.5 Release Notes

Gradle is a build tool. Dependency verification is a security feature in Gradle Build Tool that was introduced to allow validation of external dependencies either through their checksum or cryptographic signatures. In versions 6.2 through 7.4.2, there are some cases in which Gradle may skip that verification and accept a dependency that would otherwise fail the build as an untrusted external artifact. This can occur in two ways. When signature verification is disabled but the verification metadata contains entries for dependencies that only have a `gpg` element but no `checksum` element. When signature verification is enabled, the verification metadata contains entries for dependencies with a `gpg` element but there is no signature file on the remote repository. In both cases, the verification will accept the dependency, skipping signature verification and not complaining that the dependency has no checksum entry. For builds that are vulnerable, there are two risks. Gradle could downlo...

CVE-2022-28876: Security advisories | F-Secure

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F-Secure Atlant and in certain WithSecure products whereby the scanning the aeheur.dll component can crash the scanning engine. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker.

Former CIA Engineer Convicted of Leaking 'Vault 7' Hacking Secrets to Wikileaks

Joshua Schulte, a former programmer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking tools and exploits dubbed Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. The 33-year-old engineer had been charged in June 2018 with unauthorized disclosure of classified information and theft of classified material. Schulte also faces a separate trial on charges related to

New variant of Android SpyJoker malware removed from Play Store after 3 million+ installs

A researcher found eight malware-laden apps in the Play Store which have been downloaded over 3 million times. The post New variant of Android SpyJoker malware removed from Play Store after 3 million+ installs appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

CVE-2022-20234: Android Automotive OS Update Bulletin—July 2022  |  Android Open Source Project

In Car Settings app, the NotificationAccessConfirmationActivity is exported. In NotificationAccessConfirmationActivity, it gets both 'mComponentName' and 'pkgTitle' from user.An unprivileged app can use a malicous mComponentName with a benign pkgTitle (e.g. Settings app) to make users enable notification access permission for the malicious app. That is, users believe they enable the notification access permission for the Settings app, but actually they enable the notification access permission for the malicious app.Once the malicious app gets the notification access permission, it can read all notifications, including users' personal information.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-12LAndroid ID: A-225189301

CVE-2022-20238: Android Security Bulletin—July 2022  |  Android Open Source Project

'remap_pfn_range' here may map out of size kernel memory (for example, may map the kernel area), and because the 'vma->vm_page_prot' can also be controlled by userspace, so userspace may map the kernel area to be writable, which is easy to be exploitedProduct: AndroidVersions: Android SoCAndroid ID: A-233154555

WhatsApp warns users: Fake versions of WhatsApp are trying to steal your personal info

We take a look at warnings of malware-infested WhatsApp downloads offered outside of the Google Play store. The post WhatsApp warns users: Fake versions of WhatsApp are trying to steal your personal info appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.