Darn it, BitCraft, this column is called “Betawatch.” Stop throwing around terms like “pre-alpha testing” like that’s something that should be public-facing. It’s unpleasant! This...
Google’s Project Zero team, which finds and analyzes zero-day security vulnerabilities, has revealed that an unnamed commercial surveillance company developed spyware that exploited three vulnerabilities specific to Samsung phones equipped with Exynos SoCs. Project Zero managed to obtain a sample of the exploit chain back in 2020 and reported
It seems like every other day there’s a news story telling you to be afraid of this or that commonplace thing, right? Well relax, because this isn’t one of those stories, exactly. No one’s infecting your computer when you view a PNG image. However, executable code hidden in PNG images is a key part of this story.