Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Live in the Waters of Western Australia

Schneier’s digest highlights multiple high-impact security and privacy developments: a Google report on DarkSword — a full-chain iOS exploit leveraging multiple zero-days used by commercial surveillance vendors and suspected state actors to fully compromise devices; independent research demonstrating GPU-based Rowhammer attacks against NVIDIA Ampere cards that can flip GDDR bits to corrupt CPU memory and achieve full host compromise when IOMMU is disabled (default BIOS settings); historical analysis of Fast16, a likely state-sponsored malware that silently manipulates scientific computations;