Reuters reports that mounting Russian cyberattacks amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine have prompted the U.S. to bolster its investigation of Russian antivirus software manufacturer Kaspersky.
While the Commerce Department has been sought to launch a probe on Kaspersky last year, it was only urged to advance in March by the White House as concerns regarding Russia's potential use of Kaspersky's antivirus software to exfiltrate sensitive data from U.S. critical infrastructure networks grew amid rising tensions between the West and Russia, according to people close to the matter.
The Commerce Department had been given new authorities by the Trump administration to prohibit U.S. firms to enter into transactions with tech, internet, and telecom companies from Russia, China, and other "foreign adversary" nations.
The powers are "really the only tool that we have to deal with the threat (posed by Kaspersky) on an economy-wide commercial basis, given our generally open market," said former Trade Representative Deputy Assistant Emily Kilcrease.
Malware could be loaded into the Bluetooth chips of iPhones and could be executed even if the devices are turned off through a new attack surface discovered by researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt's Secure Mobile Networking Lab, according to The Hacker News.
Novel link-layer Bluetooth Low Energy relay attacks that could evade mitigations and protections including encrypted link layer, detectable latency levels, and localization approaches could be performed by a new tool developed by NCC Group researchers, SecurityWeek reports.
Three security vulnerabilities impacting SonicWall's Secure Mobile Access 1,000 appliances, one of which is a high-severity authentication bypass flaw, have been detailed as part of a warning from SonicWall, reports The Hacker News.