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Cellebrite to acquire mobile testing firm Corellium in $200 million deal

Both companies have faced controversy in recent years, primarily for their work in circumventing mobile device security features

Jun 5, 2025 By Greg Otto

The Apple Inc logo is displayed outside a retail store at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California on March 20, 2023. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Apple issues fixes for vulnerabilities in both old and new OS versions

The company released a host of security patches Monday, including ones that address two zero-day vulnerabilities.

Apr 1, 2025 By Matt Kapko

The Apple logo is seen on a window of the company’s store in Bangkok on March 5, 2021. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP) (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Apple discloses zero-day vulnerability, releases emergency patches

Apple released emergency software patches Tuesday that address a newly identified zero-day vulnerability in the company’s WebKit web browser engine. Tracked as CVE-2025-24201, an attacker can potentially…

Mar 11, 2025 By Greg Otto

Apple’s latest patch closes zero-day affecting wide swath of products

The zero-day impacts Apple’s framework that manages audio and video playback.

Jan 28, 2025 By Greg Otto

Google reveals two global spyware campaigns targeting Apple and Android devices

The operations are just the latest example of the proliferation of sophisticated spyware among private vendors, Google says.

Mar 29, 2023 By AJ Vicens

BARCELONA, SPAIN – JANUARY 29: A Bitcoin ATM machine, to buy or sell cryptocurrencies, is placed within a safety cage on January 29, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain. The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and local law enforcement busted an allegedly fraudulent scam posing as a firm that specialized in cryptocurrency and foreign exchange investment training out of Andorra. (Photo by Cesc Maymo/Getty Images)

Romance scammers exploit Apple’s developer program to spread fake cryptocurrency apps

Swindlers have defrauded victims out of $1.4 million with the romance scam.

Oct 13, 2021 By Tonya Riley

Apple patches zero-day flaw that hackers may have exploited

Other details about the vulnerability were thin.

Jul 27, 2021 By Tim Starks

An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, on August 28, 2016, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. – (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Sweeping report details how NSO Group spyware leverages iOS software for surveillance

A new report reveals the extent of the spyware company's reach.

Jul 19, 2021 By Tonya Riley

A rattlesnake is seen in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 12, 2019. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP) (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)

Facebook tackles hacking groups with apparent ties to Palestine, Hamas

Facebook said it took steps to halt hackers associated with Hamas, as well as Palestine's Preventive Security Service.

Apr 21, 2021 By Tim Starks

Xinjiang — A Uyghur is tested at a temperature checkpoint on June 29, 2020 in Kuqa, China. (Photo by David Liu/Getty Images)

China-based hackers used front companies to hack Uighurs, Facebook says

Facebook’s investigators traced the Android developers to Beijing Best United Technology and Dalian 9Rush Technology.

Mar 24, 2021 By Sean Lyngaas