January 29th, 2025

Cyber Mornings Daily · Jan 29, 2025 · 13m

Microsoft is testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge browser that uses machine learning to detect tech support scams. This feature adds a first line of defense by using computer vision to compare full screen pages to thousands of sample scams and alerts users when a scam page is detected. Additionally, new side-channel vulnerabilities in Apple processors, named FLOP and SLAP, can steal sensitive information from web browsers. These attacks can be executed remotely through malicious web pages using JavaScript or WebAssembly code. Furthermore, a new phishing scam is using a…