With tech companies gobbling up more and more user location data all the time—and governments tapping into those troves any way they can—a group of technologists in the United States and United Kingdom debuted 10 principles this week, the Locus Charter, for ethical retention and uses of location data. Facebook announced research into the Chinese hacking group Evil Eye, which has continued to launch espionage campaigns targeting Uyghurs. In this latest case, the group used front companies to develop spyware and carefully distributed both Android and iOS malware through fake app stores and tainted websites.
Meanwhile, a strain of ransomware called DearCry has been piggybacking off the same Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities originally exploited by Chinese hackers for espionage worldwide. And dark web marketplaces are overflowing with Covid-vaccine-related scams, hawking fake doses and forged proofs of vaccination.
In an attempt to cut down on the threat posed by browser-related attacks, companies like the internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare are developing a new generation of “browser isolation” tools that keep malicious code from running directly on your computer, while being faster and more usable than past iterations.
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