El "SMS de la muerte" te puede dejar sin móvil, sin que puedas hacer nada para evitarlo.
Una vulnerabilidad descubierta por Mark Blaszczyk puede dejar un móvil Android prácticamente inutilizable de forma remota, sin que el usuario haga absolutamente nada.
No es un brick permanente. No destruye el firmware ni el hardware, y existen métodos de recuperación que no requieren borrar todos los datos.
La vulnerabilidad, bautizada como SMS of Death (SMS de la muerte), se divulgó ayer (29 de octubre de 2026).
Lo preocupante es que permite interrumpir llamadas telefónicas, incluidas las realizadas al 112, y provocar un bucle de fallos persistente.
Mark lo reprodujo en móviles Pixel y Samsung.
smsofdeath.com/
¿Cómo funciona técnicamente?
El problema está en WapPushOverSms.decodeWapPdu(), dentro del framework de telefonía de Android.
El ataque aprovecha un SMS de datos WAP Push.
1. El atacante envía un mensaje especialmente manipulado, sin necesitar que la víctima abra nada.
2. Android interpreta automáticamente una longitud de cabecera codificada como uintvar.
3. El parser convierte un valor de 64 bits (long) a un entero con signo de 32 bits (int) sin comprobar su rango.
4. Una longitud inicialmente positiva se convierte en negativa y provoca una excepción Java no controlada.
5. El proceso com.android.phone termina inesperadamente.
El ejemplo concreto es:
long valor = 0x80000000L; // 2147483648
int longitud = (int) valor; // -2147483648
byte[] cabecera = new byte[longitud];
// NegativeArraySizeException
Esto no permite ejecutar código arbitrario ni obtener privilegios de administrador. Es un ataque de denegación de servicio remoto, zero-click.
Lo grave viene después, el SMS malformado puede permanecer en la cola de mensajes pendientes y Android vuelve a intentar procesarlo.
Además, el operador puede retransmitirlo cuando no recibe confirmación de entrega.
El resultado es que el proceso vuelve a fallar, incluso después de reiniciar el dispositivo.
En determinadas condiciones, el mecanismo de recuperación de Android (RescueParty) puede terminar enviándolo al modo recovery.
¿Por qué ni un hard reset lo arregla?
- El reinicio normal puede seguir fallando porque el SMS permanece en la cola.
- El restablecimiento de fábricaborra la cola local, pero el problema puede reaparecer si el operador retransmite el SMS.
La reinstalación del sistema con el parche corrige la vulnerabilidad, siempre que se instale una versión que incorpore la solución.
Por tanto, no es que el factory reset sea incapaz de reparar el teléfono. Es que el operador puede volver a entregarte el mensaje malicioso.
Esto hace que el teléfono parezca brickeado indefinidamente.
Se podría recuperar aislando primero el teléfono de la red móvil, evitando nuevas entregas, y eliminando los mensajes pendientes mediante ADB si está disponible.
Mark Blaszczyk documenta una recuperación sin pérdida de datos manipulando la cola content://sms/raw. Para ello se necesita acceso ADB autorizado y una breve ventana en la que Android haya arrancado.
### Google dice que no es un problema de seguridad
Google ya había desarrollado una corrección (un commit del 15 de junio de 2026), pero según Blaszczyk, su programa de recompensas rechazaba el informe como un problema no relacionado con la seguridad (lo que sea por ahorrase pagar ¿eh?).
android.googlesource.com/pla…
El cambio captura la excepción y elimina el mensaje problemático de la base de datos, impidiendo que vuelva a producir el bucle.
Es decir, Google reconoce expresamente en el código que está solucionando una denegación de servicio remota.
- La vulnerabilidad se identifica ahora como CVE-2026-58882, con clasificación crítica.
- La corrección llegó a Android 14–17 en octubre de 2026.
- GrapheneOS confirma que ya la incorporaba en sus versiones de seguridad anticipadas de julio.
- Los Android 12 y 13 sin soporte seguramente serán vulnerables de forma indefinida.
Lo grave es que no hay forma fácil de protegerse. El SMS malicioso se procesa automáticamente en el subsistema de telefonía de Android, antes de llegar a Google Messages o cualquier otra aplicación de SMS.
Nada de esto funciona:
- Desactivar Google Messages.
- Desactivar las notificaciones SMS.
- Quitar el permiso SMS a las aplicaciones.
Si aun no has recibido el SMS, activar el modo avión o desactivar la SIM/eSIM evita el fallo, pero claro, te quedas sin poder usarlo.
No está claro aun, pero podría ser que poniendo el móvil en modo avión y usando luego VoWiFi, el ataque pudiera fallar, pero vamos, que no es tampoco una solución muy buena.
Con esto, cualquiera que nos quiera joder el móvil, sólo tiene que enviarnos un SMS malicioso, es inquietante.
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🚨CHAINALYSIS REPORTEDLY HACKED, CUSTOMER NAMES AND EMAILS EXPOSED!
@chainalysis, the firm that tracks crypto hacks, was itself breached, according to a customer email seen by @IntCyberDigest.
The company told customers an attacker used “offensive agentic techniques” to access names, email addresses, and role labels.
It said the incident has nothing to do with the $6.3B Binance heist.
I thought it was just a proposal, but it actually passed 🤯
France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic!
🔴 🇫🇷 ALERTE INFO - DU JAMAIS VU: UNE TAXE SUR CHAQUE GIGAOCTET INTERNET VOTÉE À L’ASSEMBLÉE
Les députés ont adopté un amendement prévoyant de taxer les producteurs de données numériques à hauteur de 5,5 centimes par Go transmis.
💰 Objectif affiché : jusqu’à 10 milliards d’euros par an.
Netflix, YouTube, cloud, jeux dématérialisés… les grands services numériques pourraient être concernés, avec un risque de répercussion sur les prix pour les consommateurs.
📌 Source : Assemblée nationale
#France #Budget2027
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L'amendement instaurant cette taxe a été adopté à l'Assemblée par 11 voix contre 10 en première lecture du budget 2027, contre l'avis du gouvernement. Il n'est pas définitif et doit encore franchir les étapes parlementaires suivantes.
assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendem…
assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/comptes…
politiquematin.fr/taxe-gigaoctet…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
An amendment for a €0.055/GB tax on data from content providers to French users was narrowly adopted (11-10) in the Assemblée nationale but is not yet law. It targets specific emitters, not all internet traffic.
assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendem…
frenchbreaches.com/blog/internet-…
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A guy has paid $1,100 for his iPhone and has installed every single update for 7 years.
Last Monday, a notification popped up: iOS 27.2. He tapped “Update Now,” watched the progress bar crawl, put the phone down, and went back to scrolling Instagram. That was his entire iOS 27.2 experience. Update installed. Nothing changed. Nothing explored. Nothing configured.
Two days later, at a family dinner, his cousin, a former Apple Genius Bar tech who spent 6 years fixing and configuring iPhones for a living, glanced at his screen and quietly said:
“You just installed the biggest update of the entire iOS 27 cycle, and you changed zero settings.”
“What do you mean?”
His cousin took the phone and started talking:
“Siri now remembers your past conversations, and you never checked which apps it’s allowed to read. Messages now suggests actions above your keyboard, and you never chose which ones stay on. Every photo you edit with Extend, Reframe, or a large Clean Up now carries a hidden AI watermark, and you had no idea. Your Apple TV app finally supports profiles, and your kid’s cartoons are still wrecking your recommendations. Your HomePod still starts playing every time your cat walks across the top of it. Your smart lock can alert you when the door is left open, and you’ve never turned it on. And you’re running a build that patches more than 160 security vulnerabilities, so for every day you waited, you left them open.”
He didn’t say a word.
“It’s not that the update is small. It’s that Apple ships the features but leaves every switch on default. Nobody tells you where the switches are.”
He took the phone back, opened Settings, and changed 9 things in 10 minutes.
His reaction: “It feels like I just bought a new phone.”
His cousin’s answer: “You didn’t buy anything. You’ve been using your iPhone through a keyhole. iOS 27.2 just handed you the door.”
Here’s every iOS 27.2 feature and setting worth changing, in the exact order he did it 🧵
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Polymarket Hacked - Users Reported Funds Stolen From Their Wallets
Details: cybersecuritynews.com/polyma…
Polymarket suffered a security incident on October 29, 2026, after a compromised third-party provider exposed users of its international platform to wallet theft. Traders reported missing funds, unexpected withdrawals, and positions being closed without permission.
The company temporarily stopped trading, said it had fixed the issue, and promised to reimburse affected users. Trading later resumed. In its public statement, Polymarket said an outside provider had been compromised and that the matter had been referred to law enforcement.
Although early descriptions pointed to an authentication provider, current reporting connects this incident to DebugBear.
#cybersecurityNews
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⚠️ 26,400 working cloud and AI credentials exposed in public Gitee repositories.
A scan of 7.25 million repos found valid Alibaba Cloud, DeepSeek, OpenAI, and other API keys.
Some date back years. Their revocation remains unconfirmed.
Full findings: thehackernews.com/2026/10/26…
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🚨 Binance reports $6.3 billion security incident, with roughly $3 billion frozen so far.
A compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop may have enabled unauthorized withdrawals. Binance says it found no evidence of leaked wallet private keys.
Deposits and withdrawals are temporarily suspended. Binance says it will cover all losses using SAFU and company funds while the investigation continues.
Source: binance.com/en/support/annou…
If you only browse websites, this week's big PHP scare isn't your problem. New Zealand's NCSC said it plainly: visiting a PHP site doesn't put your phone or laptop at risk.
If you own a website, it might be. A calm breakdown of "php2shell" 🧵
The quiet trap: the update installs fine and nothing restarts. PHP workers keep running the old code in memory until they do.
Three questions for your host:
1. Is the update on?
2. Were PHP workers restarted?
3. Did you check for compromise back to 17 Oct?
Got a WordPress site? Tools → Site Health → Info → Server shows your PHP version in under a minute. Then glance at your Administrator users for anyone you don't recognise.
Full write-up, sources and three five-minute checks:
agentvelma.com/dispatch/inve…
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🟧 #HackTuesday 🟧
Hack Tuesday: Week 21 - 27 October 2026
⚠️494 cyber attacks across 67 countries ⚠️
➡️The Gentlemen claiming responsibility for 41 cyberattacks.
➡️The USA is the most affected country, accounting for 21.9% of incidents, with 108 cyber attacks.
➡️The Gov / Mil / LE sector is the most targeted, accounting for 14.4% of incidents with 71 cyber attacks.
➡️The estimated Critical cyber attacks account to 78 (15.8% of the total).
➡️Overall, the claimed compromised data amounts to approximately 53.5 TB.
More details:
hackmanac.com/news/hack-tues…
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‼️ Tailscale finally issued patches for SSH flaws that could turn one hacked device into root access on other servers.
The Tailworm research demonstrated rapid lateral movement across policy-permitted devices, without stolen passwords or user interaction.
⚠️ Headscale remains UNPATCHED.
Read - thehackernews.com/2026/10/ta…
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OFFICIAL SECURITY INCIDENT ANNOUNCEMENT
To the Diamante Community,
We regret to inform our community that the Diamante ecosystem has experienced a security breach involving unauthorized activity by a malicious actor.
Immediately after identifying the incident, our team activated emergency security protocols and worked around the clock to contain the situation, protect ecosystem participants, and coordinate recovery efforts.
We want to clarify the actions we're taking and our commitment to the community.
1. Immediate Security Measures
We have been working directly with our exchange partners, market makers, liquidity providers, and listing partners to coordinate the suspension of affected withdrawals and transfers, restrict unauthorized asset movements, and prevent further exploitation.
Our security teams are actively monitoring the situation and implementing additional protective measures across the ecosystem.
2. Identification of the Attacker
Our investigation has identified the individual believed to be responsible for this attack.
We are actively coordinating with relevant law enforcement authorities, government agencies, and jurisdictional partners across multiple countries to pursue appropriate legal action and asset recovery.
We intend to exhaust every available legal and technical avenue to hold the responsible party accountable.
3. Comprehensive Investigation
We are initiating a full incident review with our technical and security partners to determine the breach's precise cause, establish the full sequence of events, assess the extent of any affected assets, and strengthen our infrastructure against future threats.
As the investigation progresses, we will share verified findings with the community while preserving the integrity of ongoing recovery and enforcement efforts.
4. Our Commitment to Making the Community Whole
We recognize the seriousness of this incident and the trust that our community has placed in Diamante.
Our commitment is clear: We will work to ensure that every affected participant in the Diamante ecosystem is made whole.
We are actively evaluating the full extent of the incident and coordinating the necessary recovery and remediation measures with our partners.
Protecting our ecosystem participants and their assets remains our highest priority.
5. Community Safety and Official Communications
During this period, we urge all community members to remain vigilant.
Please rely exclusively on verified Diamante communication channels for official updates. Our team will never request private keys, seed phrases, or wallet credentials, nor will we ask users to connect their wallets to unverified recovery websites.
We will communicate any required actions directly through our official channels.
6. Continued Transparency
We understand that our community deserves timely answers, accountability, and decisive action.
We will provide further updates as verified information becomes available, including the scope of the incident, progress toward asset recovery, and the measures being implemented to safeguard the ecosystem.
We are treating this incident with the utmost urgency and dedicating the necessary resources to resolve it.
To every member of the Diamante community, we recognize the responsibility that comes with your trust, and we remain fully committed to protecting the long-term security and integrity of this ecosystem.
Thank you for your patience and continued support.
The Diamante Team
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The Wayback Machine risks becoming collateral damage in the fight against AI, writes Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle in The Atlantic.
Blocking the Internet Archive won’t stop AI companies from scraping the web. But it can undermine a vital resource for journalists, researchers, and anyone seeking information that has disappeared or changed.
Read the article free 👉 theatlantic.com/technology/2…
#NotAllBots #ProtectTheWayback
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🚨 Your WordPress admin account could be hacked without your password.
A critical flaw in the Jupiter X Core plugin carries a CVSS score of 9.8.
No login required.
No victim interaction required.
A broken X social-login flow can let an attacker bypass authentication and potentially access the site administrator’s account.
If you run WordPress, check your plugin version NOW.
Patch to 4.62.0 or later.
One broken authentication check. Potentially, your entire website.
How many websites are running plugins nobody has checked in months?
Source: patchstack.com/database/word…
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🇺🇸 🚨 COINBASE: CLAIMS OF A "CONFIRMED" DATA BREACH AFFECTING 70,000+ USERS SPREAD ONLINE
Posts circulating in crypto and security circles tonight say Coinbase has suffered a data breach, citing a security researcher who says it is confirmed.
What is being claimed:
* Contact information for more than 70,000 Coinbase users was obtained
* No confirmation that passwords, private keys or funds were affected
* No dataset, sample or threat actor has been named publicly
Coinbase has not publicly commented on these reports.
⚠️ Analyst Note:
The 70,000 figure closely matches Coinbase's disclosed May 2025 insider incident, in which bribed support agents exposed data on 69,461 users. It is not yet clear whether this is a new breach or a resurfacing of that one. Either way, expect phishing calls, texts and emails posing as Coinbase support. Coinbase will never ask you to move funds to a "safe" wallet. Unverified claim, NOT confirmation of a new breach.
#DDW #DarkWeb #Coinbase #Crypto #DataBreach #Phishing #ThreatIntelligence #CyberSecurity
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‼️ Anthropic and Google researchers found a flaw that lets one crafted packet hijack a server during network boot, before Secure Boot checks the OS.
Almost all servers on earth are affected.
CVE-2026-97631 sits in TianoCore EDK II, code in the UEFI firmware of most servers.
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The vulnerability is limited to servers actively PXE network-booting with vulnerable EDK II firmware; most servers boot from local disks and are unaffected in normal use, with Intel noting limited impact on supported products.
github.com/tianocore/edk2…
arstechnica.com/security/2026/…
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🚨 44 AI agents coordinating cyberattacks.
CyberStrikeAI is being used to automate attacks targeting Japanese organizations, from reconnaissance and exploitation to command-and-control.
At least 19 organizations were subjected to vulnerability validation.
Read: thehackernews.com/2026/10/cy…



























