Firmware Backdoors Be Spying On You - PSW #91 (2:06:15)
SC Media, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
AI says that this is the show where we turn coffee into threat intelligence and cigar smoke into packet captures. This week: a firmware backdoor living its best life inside Android tablets a fresh BeyondTrust RCE that already has scanners circling like seagulls over a french fry.
Lenovo Vantage reminds us that 'preinstalled convenience' is just another way to spell 'attack surface.' Texas is taking a swing at TP-Link supercomputers with a 20-year-old Munge bug that still has teeth. Your AI coding assistant might be quietly squirreling away secrets macOS gets a visit from an infostealer delivered as helpful add-ons Chrome extensions allegedly spy on millions open source maintainers drowni...