Signal, Facebook and Google among apps open to eavesdropping
The bugs could allow criminals to listen in on private calls without the target's knowledge
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The bugs could allow criminals to listen in on private calls without the target's knowledge
Google Project Zero discloses spying flaws in multiple video chat apps such as Signal, JioChat, Mocha, Google Duo, and Facebook Messenger
20 January 2021, 3:45 am EST By Messaging apps are incredibly important these days as people are still unable to freely meet in person to talk, whether about personal things or any work/school-related stuff, but according to a security researcher, some of the apps we are using aren't as safe as we think they are. (Photo : Pexels) Logic Bugs Found in Messaging Apps In a report by Bleeping Computer, Google Project Zero security researcher Natalia Silvanovich has found vulnerabilities in several messaging apps including Facebook Messenger, Signal, Google Duo, Mocha, and JioChat which allows att...
How attackers leveraged a watering hole attack to target Windows and Android devices (Source: Google Project Zero) Google's Project Zero security team is describing its discovery last year of a complex "watering hole" operation that used four zero-day exploits to target Windows and Android mobile devices. The attack was discovered and stopped in the first quarter of 2020, but the Project Zero team, along with Google Threat Analysis Group, did not disclose details until now because it took months to analyze the complex operation. The threat actors behind the campaign used two exploit servers -...
Watering-hole attacks executed by ‘experts’ exploited Chrome, Windows and Android flaws and were carried out on two servers.