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APT37 hackers abuse Google Find Hub in Android data-wiping attacks
North Korean hackers from the KONNI activity cluster are abusing Google's Find Hub tool to track their targets' GPS positions and trigger remote factory resets of Android devices.
- November 10, 2025
- 07:46 PM
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Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses
Mozilla announced a major privacy upgrade in Firefox 145 that reduces even more the number of users vulnerable to digital fingerprinting.
- November 10, 2025
- 05:25 PM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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Malicious Chrome extensions with 1.7M installs found on Web Store
Almost a dozen malicious extensions with 1.7 million downloads in Google's Chrome Web Store could track users, steal browser activity, and redirect to potentially unsafe web addresses.
- July 08, 2025
- 10:00 AM
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Russia to enforce location tracking app on all foreigners in Moscow
The Russian government has introduced a new law that makes installing a tracking app mandatory for all foreign nationals in the Moscow region.
- May 21, 2025
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O2 UK patches bug leaking mobile user location from call metadata
A flaw in O2 UK's implementation of VoLTE and WiFi Calling technologies could allow anyone to expose the general location of a person and other identifiers by calling the target.
- May 19, 2025
- 03:20 PM
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Bluetooth 6.1 enhances privacy with randomized RPA timing
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced Bluetooth Core Specification 6.1, bringing important improvements to the popular wireless communication protocol.
- May 11, 2025
- 11:21 AM
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Brave's Cookiecrumbler tool taps community to help block cookie notices
Brave has open-sourceed a new tool called "Cookiecrumbler," which uses large language models (LLMs) to detect cookie consent notices and then community-driven reviews to block those that won't break site functionality.
- April 27, 2025
- 10:12 AM
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Chrome extensions with 6 million installs have hidden tracking code
A set of 57 Chrome extensions with 6,000,000 users have been discovered with very risky capabilities, such as monitoring browsing behavior, accessing cookies for domains, and potentially executing remote scripts.
- April 17, 2025
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Open-source tool 'Rayhunter' helps users detect Stingray attacks
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a free, open-source tool named Rayhunter that is designed to detect cell-site simulators (CSS), also known as IMSI catchers or Stingrays.
- March 05, 2025
- 03:36 PM
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Microsoft to remove the Location History feature in Windows
Microsoft announced the deprecation of the Location History feature from Windows, which let applications like the Cortana virtual assistant to fetch location history of the device.
- February 17, 2025
- 01:50 PM
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Cloudflare CDN flaw leaks user location data, even through secure chat apps
A security researcher discovered a flaw in Cloudflare's content delivery network (CDN), which could expose a person's general location by simply sending them an image on platforms like Signal and Discord.
- January 22, 2025
- 04:32 PM
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Allstate car insurer sued for tracking drivers without permission
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Allstate and its data subsidiary Arity for unlawfully collecting, using, and selling driving data from over 45 million Americans.
- January 14, 2025
- 04:29 PM
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Mozilla accused of tracking users in Firefox without consent
European digital rights group NOYB (None Of Your Business) has filed a privacy complaint with the Austrian data protection watchdog (DSB) against Mozilla, alleging the company uses a Firefox privacy feature (enabled without consent) to track users' online behavior.
- September 25, 2024
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Hackers use DNS tunneling for network scanning, tracking victims
Threat actors are using Domain Name System (DNS) tunneling to track when their targets open phishing emails and click on malicious links, and to scan networks for potential vulnerabilities.
- May 13, 2024
- 01:50 PM
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Vastaamo hacker traced via ‘untraceable’ Monero transactions, police says
Julius Aleksanteri Kivimäki, the suspect believed to be behind an attack against one of Finland's largest psychotherapy clinics, Vastaamo, was allegedly identified by tracing what has been believed to be untraceable Monero transactions.
- January 30, 2024
- 02:44 PM
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FTC bans one more data broker from selling your location info
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to target data brokers, this time in a settlement with InMarket Media, which bans the company from selling Americans' precise location data.
- January 19, 2024
- 12:13 PM
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Google pays $93M to settle Android tracking lawsuit in California
California's Attorney General announced today that Google will pay $93 million to settle a privacy lawsuit alleging it violated the U.S. state's consumer protection laws.
- September 15, 2023
- 09:57 AM
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New Whiffy Recon malware uses WiFi to triangulate your location
Cybercriminals behind the Smoke Loader botnet are using a new piece of malware called Whiffy Recon to triangulate the location of infected devices through WiFi scanning and Google's geolocation API.
- August 24, 2023
- 11:36 AM
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Android spyware camouflaged as VPN, chat apps on Google Play
Three Android apps on Google Play were used by state-sponsored threat actors to collect intelligence from targeted devices, such as location data and contact lists.
- June 19, 2023
- 11:22 AM
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SMS delivery reports can be used to infer recipient's location
A team of university researchers has devised a new side-channel attack named 'Freaky Leaky SMS,' which relies on the timing of SMS delivery reports to deduce a recipient's location.
- June 17, 2023
- 10:07 AM
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