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‘Zero-click’ hacks are growing in popularity

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Re: ‘Zero-click’ hacks are growing in popularity

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Post by manholio »

I have a Galaxy Tab 3 which was on sale in my area until 2018. It's a perfectly usable device. Samsung refuses to upgrade past Android 7. The last security patch is more than a year old.

Mobile security is a huge mess because of planned obsolescence. There should exist no security reasons that force me to junk a device faster than 10 years if the manufacturer is still in business.

Regulatory action is required, that should think past the traditional "warranty" periods, removing security support is a remote confiscation of private property.

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Post by markdown »

pyman wrote: post #50

There are no laws in Israel preventing companies like NSO from building and selling zero-day and zero-click exploits? Without proper regulations the Israeli government is creating a sophisticated and dangerous platform for these kind of illegal attacks.

Israel are arguably the worlds biggest beneficiary of the arms trade. Why would they have anything against selling weapons?

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Post by jraby3 »

pyman wrote: post #50

There are no laws in Israel preventing companies like NSO from building and selling zero-day and zero-click exploits? Without proper regulations the Israeli government is creating a sophisticated and dangerous platform for these kind of illegal attacks.

In the article it states that it’s illegal to sell to over 90 countries. But maybe resellers are getting it to these countries?

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Post by oefrha »

What's the evidence that zero-click hacks are growing in popularity? TFA doesn't seem to provide any, and given that in the not so distant past, every other Windows PC was infested with viruses and/or trojans, it's hard to believe device security is on a downward trajectory.

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Post by [deleted] »

xavxav wrote: post #45

Not to go all 'Rust Evangelism Strike Force' but almost universally, these exploits leverage memory unsafety somewhere in the stack, usually in a parser of some kind (image, text, etc). The fact that this is still tolerated in our core systems is a pox on our industry. You don't have to use Rust, and it won't eliminate every bug (far from it), but memory safety is not optional . We truly need to work more towards eli…

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Post by caoilte »

rosndo wrote: post #47

Years ago we used to regularly have worms that’d infect millions of computers without any clicks at all. The truth is that “Zero-Click” hacks are becoming increasingly rare. But of course everything is new for journos unfamiliar with the field.

errr what? Im struggling to figure out what you might mean here. Are you talking about floppy disk shared worms?

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Post by rmbyrro »

pyman wrote: post #50

There are no laws in Israel preventing companies like NSO from building and selling zero-day and zero-click exploits? Without proper regulations the Israeli government is creating a sophisticated and dangerous platform for these kind of illegal attacks.

The Israeli government is exploiting NSO as a global diplomacy leverage. In exchange for approving the export of NSO software, they request foreign State support for their interests abroad, ranging from UN voting to commercial deals and anything in between.

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Post by maxmouchet »

caoilte wrote: post #57
rosndo wrote: post #47

Years ago we used to regularly have worms that’d infect millions of computers without any clicks at all. The truth is that “Zero-Click” hacks are becoming increasingly rare. But of course everything is new for journos unfamiliar with the field.

errr what? Im struggling to figure out what you might mean here. Are you talking about floppy disk shared worms?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)
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