This research explores a scenario in which a vulnerable device is compromised by an attacker who plants the code to implement Fake Lockdown Mode. When a high-risk user (e.g., journalists, government officials, executives) of the compromised device initiates Lockdown Mode, they trigger the attacker’s code that implements the visual cues of Lockdown Mode, but makes […]
EDF, the company operating several nuclear power plants in Britain, has been placed under “significantly enhanced regulatory attention” after an inspection into its cybersecurity practices. The new attention is an escalation of the enhanced regulatory attention that EDF — a subsidiary of the French state-owned energy company Électricité de France — received last year. Since […]