The Quadrooter vulnerabilities made a lot of people take notice because the scale of affected Android devices (more than 900,000) put it on a level with Stagefright and other bugs that impact a large majority of the Android ecosystem. Some details on the four vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed at DEF CON in August by researchers...

Researchers at SEC Consult say the number of internet gateways, routers, modems and other embedded devices sharing cryptographic keys and certificates is up 40 percent since the Austrian consulting firm first looked at the problem in November. The report, posted Tuesday called “House of Keys,” warns a sharp rise of devices using known private keys...

For a long time, Yelp.com has been one of the Internet’s most-frequented resources for crowd-sourced local business, restaurant and hospitality reviews and tips. Starting today, the door will be open to researchers and bug-hunters who are invited to participate in Yelp’s public bug bounty. The company has, for two years, participated in a private bounty...

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributor is Alexandrea Mellen. White and black hat hackers specialize in altering, accessing and sometimes destroying information. Genetic engineers take this idea a step further by manipulating the most important kind of information a human...

Google’s Android security team has patched a vulnerability that left Nexus 5X devices open to attack even if the phone’s screen was locked. The vulnerability in Google’s line of phones would have allowed an adversary to exfiltrate data from the targeted phone via a forced memory dump of the device. Researchers at IBM’s X-Force Application...

The disclosure a week ago that three Apple iOS zero days were used to spy on a political dissident from the United Arab Emirates included high-profile exposes of the activities of a cyber arms-dealing outfit in Israel known as the NSO Group and an emergency update for iOS. Last night, Apple expanded the scope of...

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the MedSec/Muddy Waters story, how the Angler exploit kit was traced back to the Lurk Gang, Fairware hitting Linux servers, and the Bashlite IoT malware. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_September_2_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

A global malvertising campaign exposing potentially one million users to the risk of being infected with CrypMIC ransomware delivered via the Neutrino Exploit Kit has been shut down, according to researchers. Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group, which discovered the criminal activity, said the malvertising campaign stretched across North America, EU, Asia-Pac and the...

A recent run of attacks against Linux servers called Fairware has been traced to insecure internet-facing Redis installations that hackers have abused to delete web folders and, in some cases, install malicious code. Redis is an open source tool used by web application developers for the purpose of quickly caching data. The tool’s developers configured Redis...

Google continued its onslaught of summer Chrome patches Wednesday when it pushed out version 53 of the browser, fixing 33 bugs, half of which were rated “high” severity by the company. Google paid at least $56,500 in rewards to researchers who discovered vulnerabilities in the browser this time through. The company is still determining how much to...