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Week in Review: Spyware boosts zero-days, MFA bombing targets Apple, Facebook snooped Snapchat
Mar 29, 2024
Yaron Levi, CISO at Dolby, discusses the GoFetch vulnerability in Apple's Silicon M series chips, espionage tactics by APT 31 using family surveillance, evolution of military forces into cyberspace, rising vulnerabilities from bad input and zero-day exploits, consumer influence on online services, and empowering consumers for privacy advocacy.
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- Vulnerability in Apple's new Silicon chips exposes encryption keys, emphasizing the necessity of robust threat modeling.
- APT 31 group's social engineering tactics target high-ranking officials' family members, showcasing evolving cyber threat strategies.
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Apple Silicon Vulnerability
Academic researchers discovered a vulnerability in Apple's new Silicon M series chips that allows hackers to access secret encryption keys on Apple computers. Named GoFetch, the vulnerability is unpatchable due to the chip architecture. This highlights the importance of thorough threat modeling and the challenges of hardening hardware against such vulnerabilities.
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