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Daily Edition · Page 5

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

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TLDR InfoSec

TLDR InfoSec

HACKER MASS-MAILS HUNGERRUSH EXTORTION EMAILS TO RESTAURANT PATRONS

A hacker has started emailing customers of restaurants that use the HungerRush point-of-sale platform, informing them that their data was compromised and that HungerRush is ignoring their demands. Alon Gal, CTO of Hudson Rock, posted that infostealer logs show a HungerRush employee's device was hacked, which enabled the attacker to move laterally within the environment. However, HungerRush says that a third-party vendor's compromised credentials were used to access its email marketing account. The attacker claims to have data records for millions of customers containing names, emails, passwords, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and credit card information. However, HungerRush disputes this, stating that no personal or financial information was stolen.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

TLDR InfoSec

FAKE XENO AND ROBLOX UTILITIES USED TO INSTALL WINDOWS RAT

Researchers at Microsoft Threat Intelligence have detected a malware campaign in which attackers are using trojanized executables, masquerading as Roblox and Xeno utilities, and circulating them through chat rooms to install malware on users' systems. The malware installs a portable Java runtime, which runs a malicious JAR that relies on LOLBins to download and run a remote access Trojan (RAT). The RAT then tries to delete traces of the initial infection and add Windows Defender exclusions for the malicious files.

hackread.com · 3 min

TLDR InfoSec

OFFENSIVE DPAPI WITH NEMESIS

Nemesis 2.2 automates the full Windows DPAPI decryption chain, covering SYSTEM and user masterkeys, CNG keys, and Chromium's App-Bound Encryption introduced in Chrome 137+, which added a third decryption layer via the Google Chromekey1 CNG key stored in the Cryptography API Next Generation Key Storage Provider. The platform supports multiple credential input paths, including offline registry hives, LSASS dumps, NTLM hashes, and domain DPAPI backup keys, with the latter enabling persistent forward and retroactive decryption of all linked domain user masterkeys. Red teamers should note that submitting a domain backup key to Nemesis is the highest-leverage move, as it unlocks both existing and future masterkey blobs without requiring resubmission of per-user credentials.

specterops.io · 16 min

TLDR InfoSec

YOUR DUOLINGO IS TALKING TO BYTEDANCE: CRACKING THE PANGLE SDK'S ENCRYPTION

ByteDance's Pangle ad SDK is embedded in more than 40 popular apps, including Duolingo, BeReal, Character.AI, and others, sending rich device fingerprints to ByteDance servers via HTTPS. The SDK uses a “cypher:3” scheme where each payload literally contains its own AES key and IV, plus a hardcoded AES key reused across versions, making the extra “encryption” simple obfuscation rather than real protection. Decrypted traffic reveals granular hardware, state, network, and identifiers, as well as regulatory-consent fields, while a stronger ECIES-based “cypher:4” is reserved for ad metrics, underscoring that user fingerprint data is only weakly protected despite its high tracking value.

buchodi.com · 8 min

TLDR InfoSec

A BEGINNER'S GUIDE: CROSS-DEVICE PASSKEYS

A common challenge to passkey adoption is a user's difficulty signing in on a device that doesn't have the passkey installed and can't retrieve it from a cloud password manager. Hybrid transport addresses this issue by enabling cross-device passkeys, allowing a user to use another device's passkey to sign in. The flow involves the site the user wants to authenticate to generating a QR code, which the user then scans with another device. That second device performs a challenge-response with the server and a proximity check using BLE with the first device. If the challenge succeeds, the user is logged in on their original device.

bughunters.google.com · 5 min

TLDR InfoSec

ANONYMOUS CREDENTIALS: AN ILLUSTRATED PRIMER

As age-verification laws spread across 25 states in the US and over a dozen countries, anonymous credential systems built on blind signatures and zero-knowledge proofs offer a cryptographic path to proving attributes such as age or residency without exposing the underlying identity to issuers or relying parties. The core challenge is preventing credential cloning: single-use Chaumian credentials bound to blind-signed serial numbers address this but require per-session issuance, while ZK-based reusable credentials solve efficiency and expressiveness at the cost of requiring N-time use limits enforced via PRF-derived serial numbers or hardware binding. Security practitioners building identity systems should treat the issuer-resource collusion threat model as a first-class design requirement rather than an afterthought.

blog.cryptographyengineering.com · 18 min

TLDR InfoSec

CAR TYRE SENSORS CAN BE USED TO TRACK DRIVERS WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE

Researchers from IMDEA Networks Institute demonstrated that Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) in vehicles from Toyota, Mercedes, Renault, and Hyundai broadcast unencrypted, static sensor IDs that can be captured with ~$100 SDR hardware at distances exceeding 50 meters, enabling persistent vehicle fingerprinting via Jaccard index correlation across a network of roadside receivers. Over a ten-week field study, the team collected more than 6 million messages from more than 20,000 vehicles, confirming that TPMS data can be used to reconstruct detailed movement patterns and daily routines. Researchers are calling on manufacturers and policymakers to mandate rotating sensor IDs, as current EU and UK regulations legally require TPMS but do not mandate encryption or ID randomization.

hackread.com · 3 min

TLDR InfoSec

ITALIAN PROSECUTORS CONFIRM JOURNALIST WAS HACKED WITH PARAGON SPYWARE

Italian prosecutors confirm that the phones of journalist Francesco Cancellato and activists Giuseppe Caccia and Luca Casarini were hacked using Paragon's Graphite spyware in a coordinated 2024 campaign, while the perpetrator and motive remain unclear. Authorities' failure to detect infections identified by Citizen Lab and prior oversight gaps raise serious concerns about the government's use of commercial spyware and safeguards for journalists across Europe.

techcrunch.com · 3 min

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