Literally every IoT device! These things are terrible. My dishwasher can't wash dishes once it does a software update. My TV spies on me and shows me targeted ads. Every useless piece of hardware has a microphone and camera in it.... Heck, I've spent countless days breaking the microphones and cameras on my new "smart" devices before I feel comfortable using them.
Even after spending thousands of dollars on a car, I'm not allowed to install alternative privacy friendly firmware on it.
It's bad enough that there are AI-powered cameras with facial recognition everywhere, but thanks to HD cameras in every $100 phone, it's hard to walk in a public place without being in the background of an Instagram story.
Everyone is spying on me and every damn "smart" device is turned against me..
The extinction of the VX scene is a really sad development. Current malware is boring, not even remotely innovative, and has reached a new low with the emergence of ransomware. 29A has already programmed viruses over a decade ago that are more sophisticated than all the boring low-quality garbage that is distributed today.
Not that Mirai and WannaCry are not effective, but technically they are at the lowest level.
The exploits of the NSO group are a happy exception with their iMessage exploit.
If there is a public tool, which checks for Pegasus, NSO will simply modify Pegasus to evade such a trivial detection. I would even assume that every Pegasus-infection is pretty unique due to mutations between every sample.
Everybody who claims Pegasus and other ATP-malware is trivial to detect has no clue what he's talking about.
The author of this article clearly has no clue what he is talking about, but are there any write-ups, streams or similar from pwn2own participants finding these vulnerabilities?
I am only a half rank higher then before reading the books and the improvement could be also because of more playtime, but it really influenced my decision making. Actually I came to the decision to play aggressive openings only, build more traps, do hit and run attacks whenever I can and get more distractions before and while my attacks (sending some lings before spawning two nydus tunnels at two different locations really helps).
Linked article from Twitter thread: https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-master-messaging-pr-playbook-chin...