Firmware Backdoors Be Spying On You - PSW #914

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 drowning in AI-generated nonsense Windows flirting with smartphone-style permission prompts. Put your passwords in a vault, not in a repo, and stay tuned for Paul's Security Weekly! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-914