#84 - Intel Chat: Push notification surveillance, a RAT, a critical Bluetooth flaw & 5Ghoul

Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, as reported by a US senator on December 6th.

Cyber.wtf reporting on an interesting piece of malware that turned out to be a RAT written in C#.

Israel’s critical infrastructure is under threat from an Iranian proxy hacking group operating out of Lebanon.

Hacker News is reporting on a critical Bluetooth security flaw that could be exploited by threat actors to take control of Android, Linux, MacOS and iOS devices.

A collection of security flaws in the firmware implementation of 5G mobile network modems from major chipset vendors such as MediaTek and Qualcomm impact USB and IoT modems as well as hundreds of smartphone models running Android and iOS.