The UK has become the first country worldwide to prohibit Internet of Things device manufacturers from using default usernames and passwords in their products following the approval of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure act, which seeks to bolster smart device cybersecurity, The Hacker News reports.
BleepingComputer reports that hacked WordPress sites have been used as relay command-and-control servers by the novel Wpeeper Android malware, which has been spread via a pair of app stores impersonating the Uptodown App Store and is believed to have already compromised thousands of Android devices.
Eight of nine major Chinese keyboard apps were found to have vulnerabilities that could be leveraged to expose nearly a billion users' keystrokes, The Hacker News reports.
TechCrunch reports that popular phone tracking app iSharing had the exact location details of its more than 35 million users exposed due to vulnerabilities that prevented the app's servers from conducting proper checks of user data access.
Moldovan botnet operator Alexander Lefterov, also known as Alipatime, Alipako, and Uptime, has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for his involvement in widespread attacks against U.S.-based computers, BleepingComputer reports.
SecurityWeek reports that Siemens has confirmed that its Ruggedcom APE1808 devices configured with a Palo Alto Networks virtual next-generation firewall may be impacted by the actively exploited Palo Alto Networks firewall vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3400.
