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Texas scrutinizes four more car manufacturers on privacy issues

Malwarebytes

The Notice delivered to Hyundai discusses covered data, which is defined as any information or data about a vehicle manufactured, sold, or leased by you, regardless of whether deidentified or anonymized. And in August, Paxton sued General Motors for selling customer driving data to third parties.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2024

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Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2024. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks New APT threat actor targets Russian government entities In May 2024, we discovered a new APT targeting Russian government organizations. IT threat evolution in Q3 2024 IT threat evolution in Q3 2024.

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US Federal Judge Upholds Automakers' Right to Record Texts, Call Logs

SecureWorld News

The lawsuit, filed in 2020, alleged that the automakers' practice of collecting and storing this sensitive data without customers' knowledge or consent constituted a violation of the Washington Privacy Act (WPA). For the auto manufacturers involved, this is a significant victory.

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“We will hold them accountable”: General Motors sued for selling customer driving data to third parties

Malwarebytes

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued General Motors (GM) for the unlawful collection and sale of over 1.5 million Texans’ private driving data to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent. The driving data collected and sold by GM included trip details like speed, seatbelt status, and driven distance.

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Android Apps containing Clicker Trojan installed on over 100M devices

Security Affairs

Data collected by the malware include manufacturer and model, OS version, country of residence of the user, the default language of the system, user agent identifier, name of mobile operator, type of internet connection, screen options, time zone, and information about the tainted application containing the Trojan. .

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

Security Affairs

The experts observed the use of NineRAT at around September 2023 against a European manufacturing entity. Talos believes that NineRAT was built around May 2022, but was first spotted on March 2023 as part of Operation Blacksmith. In March, the threat actors hit a South American agricultural organization.

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Why car location tracking needs an overhaul

Malwarebytes

Modern cars are the latest consumer “device” to undergo an internet-crazed overhaul, as manufacturers increasingly stuff their automobiles with the types of features you’d expect from a smartphone, not a mode of transportation. It is illogical and impractical to expect Tesla to monitor every vehicle owner’s mobile app for misuse.”