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Sunday, 05 October 2025
Reports have been flooding in about computer maker, Levono. It has been installing adware onto new consumer computers that activates when taken out of the box for the first time. The adware, named Superfish, is reportedly installed on a number of Levono's consumer laptops out of the box. The software injects third party ads on Google searches and websites without the user's permission.
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Responding to the news that the company (Komodia) behind the Superfish technology that caused Lenovo great headache this week is under a DDoS attack, Dave Larson, CTO of Corero Network Security, said:
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Knowledge of security keys used in SIM cards can have wide reaching consequences. As prior research (https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2021/DEF%20CON%2021%20presentations/Karl%20Koscher%20and%20Eric%20Butler-Updated/DEFCON-21-Koscher-Butler-The-Secret-Life-of-SIM-Cards.pdf) has described, SIM cards are much like little computers with the ability to run applications at a lower level than the phone’s operating system (i.e. Android or iOS). Information obtained by hacking the SIM manufacturer could not only be used to decrypt protected phone communication but it could also likely be used to deploy malicious Java applets to targeted SIM cards by way of special SMS messages or signals from fake cell towers (referred to as sting rays in law enforcement terms). This also potentially opens up new techniques for sophisticated MiTM attacks against cellular data connections authenticated by the compromised SIM cards.--- Craig Young, CyberSecurity Researcher for Tripwire
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