Security News

UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption
2025-02-08 15:56

The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring them to break the Advanced...

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order
2025-02-07 17:03

Blighty’s latest stab at encryption? A secret order to pry open iCloud, sources claim The UK's Home Office refuses to either confirm or deny reports that it recently ordered Apple to create a...

Apple missed screenshot-snooping malware in code that made it into the App Store, Kaspersky claims
2025-02-07 03:03

OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries Kaspersky eggheads say they’ve spotted the first app containing hidden optical character recognition spyware in Apple’s App...

Crypto-stealing apps found in Apple App Store for the first time
2025-02-04 20:16

A new campaign dubbed 'SparkCat' has been uncovered, targeting the cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases of Android and iOS users using optical character recognition (OCR) stealers. [...]

Google Play, Apple App Store apps caught stealing crypto wallets
2025-02-04 20:16

A new campaign dubbed 'SparkCat' has been uncovered, targeting the cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases of Android and iOS users using optical character recognition (OCR) stealers. [...]

First Apple-notarized porn app available to iPhone users in Europe
2025-02-04 00:11

The first Apple-notarized porn app, "Hot Tub," is now available to iPhone users in Europe through the alternative app marketplace, AltStore PAL. [...]

Week in review: Apple 0-day used to target iPhones, DeepSeek’s popularity exploited by scammers
2025-02-02 09:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Apple zero-day vulnerability exploited to target iPhone users (CVE-2025-24085) Apple has shipped a...

New SLAP & FLOP Attacks Expose Apple M-Series Chips to Speculative Execution Exploits
2025-01-29 10:49

A team of security researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum has demonstrated two new side-channel attacks targeting Apple silicon that could be exploited to leak...

SLAP, Apple, and FLOP: Safari, Chrome at risk of data theft on iPhone, Mac, iPad Silicon
2025-01-29 00:26

It's another cousin of Spectre, here to read your email, browsing history, and more Many recent Apple laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones powered by Cupertino's homegrown Silicon processors can...

New Apple CPU side-channel attacks steal data from browsers
2025-01-28 18:00

A team of security researchers has disclosed new side-channel vulnerabilities in modern Apple processors that could steal sensitive information from web browsers. [...]