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A new malware discovered on Apple’s macOS — tied to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus — has reportedly targeted blockchain engineers of a cryptocurrency exchange platform.The macOS malware “KandyKorn” is a stealthy backdoor capable of data retrieval, directory listing, file upload/download, secure deletion, process termination, and command execution, according
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Telegram has implemented various security features to enhance user privacy and data protection. Popular messaging app Telegram has addressed a recent camera and security exploit that could allow attackers to gain control of a macOS device’s camera. A spokesperson for Telegram Remi Vaughn mentioned that Telegram users are not at risk
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Messaging application Telegram has played down the severity of an discovered exploit that allowed researchers to gain access to camera systems of Apple macOS users. Software engineer Dan Revah flagged the exploit in a blog post on May 15, outlining the method which allowed him to gain local privilege escalation to
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The whitepaper previously was in a folder in the Image Capture application along with several other random files like PDFs and Images. The world’s largest tech firm Apple has quietly cleared the Bitcoin white paper from the recent beta version of its operating system upgrade. On April 25th, the Apple-centric news
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The world’s largest tech company Apple has quietly removed the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper from the latest beta version of its operating system upgrade.On April 25, the Apple-focused news site 9to5Mac reported the Big Tech firm had removed a test scanner app called Virtual Scanner II in the latest MacOS
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Top Stories This Week Bitcoin white paper is apparently hiding in Apple’s modern macOS Satoshi Nakamoto’s original white paper laying out the thesis for the Bitcoin network is seemingly hiding within every modern version of the operating system for Apple’s
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On April 5, 2023, the independent blogger Andy Baio published a post on his Waxy Blog that explained every version of macOS from Mojave 10.14.0 to the current version hosts a copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s seminal Bitcoin white paper. Mac users can type a simple command in the terminal, and
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“Of all the documents in the world, why was the Bitcoin whitepaper chosen? Is there a secret Bitcoin maxi working at Apple? The filename is “simpledoc.pdf” and it’s only 184 KB,” writes Baio on Waxy. “Maybe it was just a convenient, lightweight multipage PDF for testing purposes, never meant to
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Satoshi Nakamoto’s original white paper laying out the Bitcoin (BTC) network is seemingly hiding within every modern version of the operating system for Apple’s Mac computers.An April 5 blog post from technologist Andy Baio revealed that a PDF of the Bitcoin white paper has “apparently shipped with every copy of
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A new macOS malware has surfaced recently, with low threat detection rate, that digital security researchers think is allegedly created by the Lazarus Group, a cybercrime group based in North Korea with a long history of crypto hacking.The malware was disguised on a cryptocurrency trading platform website called ‘unioncrypto.vip’ and
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