Security News > 2020 > January > News Wrap: PoC Exploits, Cable Haunt and Joker Malware

Tom: Well, yeah, I will say that in a situation when you have a zero day or you have an unpatched vulnerability, I could make an argument that it is irresponsible and you know the disclosure of a PoC might be better suited for a bad channel as opposed to a chest-beating researcher who just wants some fame and maybe not so much fortune.

I think it was called Cable Haunt and it was in multiple cable modems that are used by ISPs to provide broadband into homes so you know what's going on there?

So a lot of different vendors of different cable modems, like Arris and Technicolor and some of the other you know, well known names in that particular side of tech industry have taken this Broadcom reference architecture.

Google was saying that, you know, to date, since the Joker appeared, which has only been like, I think, like 18 months or something, they removed 17,000 Android apps that have been infested with Joker.

Lindsey: Yeah, in terms of, you know, Joker being kind of billing fraud and being based on that, how is that similar or different to, because we also this week wrote about "Fleeceware apps" which essentially are kind of trick users into subscribing to a service on the app that could you know, be also used as free and then you know, ended up ending up racking like tons of money from victims so you know, it that similar or different from that?

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