Hacking for fun and profit.
Possible US Government iPhone Hacking Tool Leaked
Wired writes (alternate source ):
Security researchers at Google on Tuesday released a report describing what they’re calling “Coruna,” a highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit that includes five complete hacking techniques capable of bypassing all the defenses of an iPhone to silently install malware on a device when it visits a website containing the exploitation code. In total, Coruna takes advantage of 23 distinct vulnerabilities in iOS, a rare collection of hacking components that suggests it was created by a well-resourced, likely state-sponsored group of hackers.
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Coruna’s code also appears to have been originally written by English-speaking coders, notes iVerify’s cofounder Rocky Cole. “It’s highly sophisticated, took millions of dollars to develop, and it bears the hallmarks of other modules that have been publicly attributed to the US government,” Cole tells WIRED. “This is the first example we’ve seen of very likely US government tools based on what the code is telling us spinning out of control and being used by both our adversaries and cybercriminal groups.”
TechCrunch reports that Coruna is definitely of US origin:
Two former employees of government contractor L3Harris told TechCrunch that Coruna was, at least in part, developed by the company’s hacking and surveillance tech division, Trenchant. The two former employees both had knowledge of the company’s iPhone hacking tools. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk about their work for the company.
It’s always super interesting to see what malware looks like when it’s created through a professional software development process. And the TechCrunch article has some speculation as to how the US lost control of it. It seems that an employee of L3Harris’s surviellance tech division, Trenchant, sold it to the Russian government.
Just because this one is “major.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/fbi-hack-surveillance-system-major-incident-00854237
FBI declares suspected Chinese hack of US surveillance system a ‘major cyber incident’
The FBI last week deemed a recent China-linked cyber intrusion into a sensitive agency surveillance system a “major incident,” meaning it poses significant risks to U.S. national security, according to one congressional aide and two U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter.
The bureau first told Congress on March 4 that it was investigating suspicious activity on an internal agency system that contained “law enforcement sensitive information.” The FBI did not publicly identify who was behind the activity at the time, but POLITICO previously reported that China is suspected.
When self-driving cars are much more common they could become a serious weapon. (Can you say, ‘kamikaze cars?’)
https://thenextweb.com/news/baidu-apollo-go-robotaxi-wuhan-mass-malfunction
More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.
On Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. They simply froze, scattered across the city’s roads and elevated highways, some in the middle lane of ring roads with traffic streaming past on both sides. Passengers trapped inside called the police. Videos circulating on Weibo showed Apollo Go vehicles stranded at intersections, hazard lights blinking, going nowhere. One clip appeared to show the outage causing a highway collision, though Wuhan police said no injuries were reported and all passengers exited their vehicles safely.
They keep coming.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/another-group-of-useful-maxims
Another Group of Useful Maxims
