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This malware can track your location, Messenger will soon be encrypted by default, and a financial firm is hit with sim swapping! All that coming up now on ThreatWire.

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Chapters:

00:00 Location Tracking With Malware

02:41 Messenger To Get E2EE

05:08 Financial Firm Hit With SIM Swapping

Links:

https://www.cyfirma.com/blogs/technical-analysis-of-smokeloader-malware/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-whiffy-recon-malware-uses-wifi-to-triangulate-your-location/

https://thehackernews.com/2023/08/new-whiffy-recon-malware-triangulates.html

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation/overview

https://www.secureworks.com/blog/smoke-loader-drops-whiffy-recon-wi-fi-scanning-and-geolocation-malware

https://thehackernews.com/2023/08/meta-set-to-enable-default-end-to-end.html

https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/facebook-postpones-plans-for-e2e.html

https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/facebook-introduces-new-features-for.html

https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-to-roll-out-end-to-end-encryption-for-messenger/

https://messengernews.fb.com/2023/08/22/expanding-testing-for-end-to-end-encryption-on-messenger/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kroll-data-breach-exposes-info-of-ftx-blockfi-genesis-creditors/

https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1694899217326608611

https://twitter.com/BlockFi/status/1694844414294704547

https://www.kroll.com/en/about-us/news/security-incident

https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1694938997531738511

https://thehackernews.com/2023/08/kroll-suffers-data-breach-employee.html

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