A surveillance app marketed as a stealthy tool for parents has exposed sensitive data from over 62,000 users, raising fresh concerns about the real audience for apps like it.
The app, called Catwatchful, claims to offer invisible monitoring for Android phones. According to its creators, it’s intended to help parents keep tabs on their children’s digital activity. But the app’s heavy emphasis on secrecy and undetectability tells a different story. On its website, Catwatchful boasts that it “cannot be detected,” “cannot be uninstalled,” and “only you can access the information it collects.” [Read more…]
Security researchers have identified two major exploits in the Secure Boot system, both capable of sidestepping one of the most important protections on modern PCs. Microsoft has issued a patch for one of them. The other remains untouched, even as it offers attackers a nearly universal method to bypass security during the startup process.
Hackers posing as IT support are targeting employees at large companies to sneak into their Salesforce systems and steal data. They start with a phone call, pretending to help with a routine issue. The real goal? To get the employee to connect to a fake version of Salesforce’s Data Loader tool. Once that happens, the attackers can quietly grab sensitive company data.
Researchers have uncovered a batch of malicious packages in the NPM repo that quietly racked up over 6,000 downloads before anyone noticed. These weren’t your typical cryptominers or info-stealers. They were designed to crash systems, wipe files, and corrupt data—sometimes all at once.