Serendipitous discovery nets security researcher $70k bounty
that he made the discovery when powering up his Pixel 6 and forgetting his SIM's PIN code, requiring him to dig out the Personal Unlocking Key, or PUK, that would allow him to reset the PIN. After a reboot, his phone repeatedly hung on a"Pixel is starting" screen.
The problem stemmed from Android calling a .dismiss function whenever the SIM PUK was reset. Schütz said that what Android seems to have done was to dismiss the screen prompting the PUK to be reset, while accidentally not sending that request until the PUK reset screen had already disappeared. Since the active security layer underneath was all that was left, Android dismissed it without realizing the mistake.
Being a duplicate, Google couldn't award the full $100,000 that a bug of that severity deserved, but the company decided to give him $70,000 since he spurred it into action.A threat actor known to Microsoft as DEV-0569 has reportedly stepped up its game from phishing and spam emails to using more dangerous tactics, and even possibly selling access to ransomware operators trying to deliver a new strain of ransomware known as Royal.
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