Technical

[Asyn]

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to-your-shadow-co-1828476051
https://mislove.org/publications/PII-PETS.pdf

[Asyn]

VPNFilter III: More Tools for the Swiss Army Knife of Malware
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/09/vpnfilter-part-3.html

[Asyn]

5 out of 6 routers at risk
https://blog.avast.com/wi-fi-routers-at-risk
http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FINAL-Wi-Fi-Router-Vulnerabilities.pdf

[Asyn]

Ransomware attacks via RDP choke SMBs
https://blog.avast.com/ransomware-attacks-via-rdp
https://www.ic3.gov/media/2018/180927.aspx

[Asyn]

70+ different types of home routers (all together 100,000+) are being hijacked by GhostDNS
https://blog.netlab.360.com/70-different-types-of-home-routers-all-together-100000-are-being-hijacked-by-ghostdns-en/

[Asyn]

Hackers Are Holding High Profile Instagram Accounts Hostage
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3jdbk/hackers-high-profile-instagram-accounts-hostage-ransom-bitcoin
https://blog.avast.com/instagram-accounts-frozen-with-ransomware

[Asyn]

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

[bob3160]

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

The rebuttal from Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, and the Chinese Government
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond

[DavidR]

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

The rebuttal from Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, and the Chinese Government
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond

Whilst I haven't finished reading the first article yet - I'm finding it hard going as it is white text on a black background (for me certainly) and after a while my eyes just lose focus.  However, it is certainly playing to peoples worst fears Government Cyber Hacking (and more in this case), Foreign and Domestic, etc. etc.

I'm not sure how they can rebut this if said doctored chip sets are present.  It seems to be trying to keep their feet out of the fire or be help accountable.  I think there will be a long life to this issue and concerns about hardware modification at source.

This reminds me about CPUs coming out from the factories all ready infected with malware (a few years ago), seems this is the next logical step hacking the hardware.

[Asyn]

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

The rebuttal from Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, and the Chinese Government
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond

The Big Hack: The Software Side of China’s Supply Chain Attack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-the-software-side-of-china-s-supply-chain-attack

[Asyn]

Malware Has a New Way to Hide on Your Mac
https://www.wired.com/story/mac-malware-hide-code-signing/

[Asyn]

The October 2018 Security Update Review
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2018/10/9/the-october-2018-security-update-review

[Asyn]

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

The rebuttal from Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, and the Chinese Government
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond

The Big Hack: The Software Side of China’s Supply Chain Attack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-the-software-side-of-china-s-supply-chain-attack

New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom

[Asyn]

The Sony Smart TV Exploit: An Inside View of Hijacking Your Living Room
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/sony-smart-tv-exploit-inside-view-hijacking-your-living-room.html

[Asyn]

Microsoft Edge Remote Code Execution
https://leucosite.com/Microsoft-Edge-RCE/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-1136/