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[Link] Elon Musk fails in bid to delay trial over terminated Twitter deal
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
Elon Musk has failed in a bid to delay a trial over his termination of a $44bn (£38bn) deal to buy Twitter. The social media company is suing Musk over his decision to walk away from the transaction and is demanding that he complete the deal on the agreed terms.
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[Link] Researchers Find Vulnerability in Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps
Read: 12/8/2022 www.vice.com
In all these cases, the researchers submitted vulnerabilities to Electron to get them fixed, which earned them more than $10,000 in rewards. The bugs were fixed before the researchers published their research.
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[Link] Catalan leaders targeted using NSO spyware, say cybersecurity experts
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Dozens of pro-independence Catalan figures, including the president of the north-eastern Spanish region and three of his predecessors, have been targeted using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a report from cybersecurity experts.
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[Link] 'We Are Fucked': Crypto Stablecoin Collapses After $182M Hack
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
On Sunday, cybersecurity firm PeckShield reported the attack on Beanstalk Farms, saying hackers stole more than $80 million for themselves, but the protocol’s losses appeared to be even higher. The company later said its initial analysis showed the losses amounted to around $182 million.
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[Link] Advice on How to Use Telegram Safely
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Russian police have started stopping people in the street and scrolling through messages stored on their phone, according to a video uploaded to social media.
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[Link] Canadian accused of unleashing NetWalker ransomware extradited to US
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
US prosecutors on Thursday said they have extradited a Canadian man to America to face charges that he conspired to distribute ransomware. Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins, 34, of Gatineau, Quebec, was detained by Canadian authorities on January 27, 2021.
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[Link] Russian Cybersecurity Giant Kaspersky Tries to Maintain Neutrality During Ukraine War
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
The statement encapsulates the company’s position since Russia invaded Ukraine six days ago—that of attempted neutrality in a war where silence or fence sitting is implicitly siding with the Russian forces.
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[Link] Stop Leaving Your Smartphone's Bluetooth On
Read: 8/2/2022 lifehacker.com
Bluetooth is a handy feature that allows you to easily connect up your various devices, whether you’re trying to get your new wireless headphones to talk to your Android phone or connecting your Apple Watch to your iPhone.
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[Link] CoinDesk CMS Vulnerability Let Hackers Trade on Nonpublic Info
Read: 5/2/2022 www.vice.com
“The issue is now fixed and added safeguards have been put in place. We regret this unintended deviation from our commitment to level playing fields in crypto markets,” Worth added.
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[Link] This NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
NFTs are usually passive affairs. A consumer buys the token, and then sells or stores the NFT. The NFT doesn’t really do anything.
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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.
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[Link] A Hacker Is Negotiating With Victims on the Blockchain After $1.4M Heist
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in a blockchain service to steal around $1.4 million from users earlier this week.
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[Link] Researcher Found Way to Brute Force Verizon Customer PINs Online
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
An independent security researcher discovered a way to brute force Verizon PINs online, meaning they could potentially break into Verizon customer accounts. In response, Verizon has taken the impacted web pages offline.
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[Link] Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119 Million
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
The hack on BadgerDAO took advantage of an old-school web-based attack: the hacker was able to steal an API key that gave them control of BadgerDAO’s account on Cloudflare, the project’s content delivery network for its site.
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[Link] Hackers Steal $119M From ‘Web3’ Crypto Project With Old School Attack
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Notably, the hack did not involve complicated smart contract exploits. Instead, it was a front-end attack targeting BadgerDAO's web infrastructure, in particular its Cloudflare account, BadgerDAO’s content delivery network.
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[Link] Court Throws Out Messages Obtained by FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday a Finnish court ruled that chat messages secretly gathered by the FBI from encrypted phone company Anom can’t be used as evidence against two particular suspects, according to a report from Finnish outlet Iltalehti.
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[Link] Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Security researchers have checked the web's public key infrastructure and have measured a long-known but little-analyzed security threat: hidden root Certificate Authorities. Certificate Authorities, or CAs, vouch for the digital certificates we use to establish trust online.
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[Link] Researchers wait 12 months to report vulnerability with 9.8 out of 10 severity rating
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
About 10,000 enterprise servers running Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect VPN are vulnerable to a just-patched buffer overflow bug with a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10.
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[Link] Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, if you Googled “OpenSea” looking for the eponymous NFT marketplace, you might have found what looks like the site right at the top of Google.
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[Link] Why are the Last 4 Digits of an SSN Important?
Read: 11/11/2021 www.stilt.com
Social Security Numbers are issued by the government and they are used for various purposes. A lot of times, different companies will use the last four digits of your SSN. However, these four digits are crucial and you need to protect them. But why are the last 4 digits of an SSNso important?
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[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.
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[Link] Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade
Read: 9/11/2021 www.technologyreview.com
The threat comes from quantum computers, which work very differently from the classical computers we use today. Instead of the traditional bits made of 1s and 0s, they use quantum bits that can represent different values at the same time.
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[Link] Hackers Apologize to Arab Royal Families for Leaking Their Data
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
Among the data Conti leaked, there were sensitive files belonging to celebrities like David Beckham, Oprah Winfrey, and Donald Trump, according to The Daily Mail. There was also, according to the hackers themselves, information belonging to the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi royal families.
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[Link] Ukraine Doxes Russian Government Hackers’ Phone Calls
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ukraine’s Security Service published the conversations on its official YouTube channel on Thursday.
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[Link] US Sanctions Could Cut-off NSO from Tech It Relies On
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. government added NSO Group to a federal denylist that prohibits any American company or individual from selling or providing services to the controversial Israeli spyware seller. The sanctions effectively prohibit any U.S. company, as well as American citizens working in the U.S.
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[Link] Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A British firearms sales website's owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a newly incorporated business. Guntrader Ltd entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 October.
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[Link] Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.
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[Link] The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The call came from PayPal’s fraud prevention system. Someone had tried to use my PayPal account to spend $58.82, according to the automated voice on the line. PayPal needed to verify my identity to block the transfer.
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[Link] Looks like Steam is getting a QR code login option
Read: 29/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
A recent update to Steam's code includes signs of an upcoming new login method: Scanning a QR code with the Steam mobile app. That's according to a tweet by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik.
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[Link] Instagram Hacker Forces Victim to Make Hostage-Style Video
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
A hacker is taking over Instagram accounts before forcing their owners to make hostage-style videos promoting the hacker's money-making scams to try and get their money back.
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[Link] Cryptocurrency Loan Platform Implodes In $130 Million Hack
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, crypto lending service C.R.E.A.M. Finance was the target of a hack that stole over $130 million. It’s not only one of the largest heists ever targeting a so-called “decentralized finance” (DeFi) platform, but also the third such hack targeting C.R.E.A.M.
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[Link] Hackers Disrupt Gas Stations in Iran and Deface Billboards to Blame Supreme Leader
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
It’s unclear who is behind the attack. But the methods and impact are reminiscent of a hack in July that paralyzed Iran’s train system.
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[Link] The 14-Year-Old Who Founded Girls Who Hack Is Inspiring the Next Generation of Hackers
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Bianca Lewis, or as she is known in the hacker world: BiaSciLab, is part of the next generation of hackers. At 14 years old, she has already made a name for herself in hacker conference circles when a few years ago, she was among a group of kids that hacked into an election reporting system.
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[Link] FBI, others crush REvil using ransomware gang’s favorite tactic against it
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Four days ago, the REvil ransomware gang’s leak site, known as the “Happy Blog,” went offline. Cybersecurity experts wondered aloud what might have caused the infamous group to go dark once more. One theory was that it was an inside job pulled by the group’s disaffected former leader.
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[Link] How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account.
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[Link] Recycled Cobalt Strike key pairs show many crooks are using same cloned installation
Read: 25/10/2021 www.theregister.com
Around 1,500 Cobalt Strike beacons uploaded to VirusTotal were reusing the same RSA keys from a cracked version of the software, according to a security researcher who pored through the malware repository.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] Ransomware Gang Says the Real Ransomware Gang Is the Federal Government
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Friday, a competing ransomware gang that calls itself Conti released a statement titled “ReviLives,” in support of the REvil gang, which was the target of the international operation.
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[Link] Sim Swapper Doxes and SWATs His Accomplice
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The SIM swapper, 20-year-old Kyell Bryan ended up doxing and swatting his former partner, according to the hacker’s guilty plea.
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[Link] The ‘Leak’ of Warzone’s New Anti-Cheat System Was Actually Part of the Plan
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, Activision bombastically announced its new anti-cheat system—called RICOCHET—and promised to eradicate most cheaters from its massively popular online games such as Call of Duty: Warzone.
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[Link] Cheat Maker Is Not Afraid of Call of Duty’s New Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Activision announced its new anti-cheat system, called RICOCHET, on Monday. The company also said the new system will run in the kernel, the core of the operating system, which controls and has access to most of the computer's functions.
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[Link] CIA Funding Arm Gave Encrypted App Wickr $1.6 Million
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investment firm started by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), recently poured more than $1.6 million into encrypted messaging platform Wickr, according to public disclosure records reviewed by Motherboard. The $1.
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[Link] Hackers drain cryptocurrency accounts of thousands of Coinbase users
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Between March and May of 2021, hackers managed to get into the accounts and move funds off the platform, draining some accounts dry. Thousands of customers had already begun to complain to Coinbase that funds had vanished from their accounts.
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[Link] This $40 Trojan virus is a reminder to two-factor all your gaming accounts
Read: 7/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Online security firm Kaspersky, makers of one of the best antivirus software options out there,has in recent years been emphasising that gaming accounts are an extremely attractive target for the bad 'uns. Last month for example it reported blocking 5.
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[Link] Former OnlyFans Employees Could Access Users’ and Models' Personal Information
Read: 30/9/2021 www.vice.com
Some former OnlyFans support staff employees still had access to users' data—including sensitive financial and personal information—even after they stopped working for the company used by sex workers to sell nudes and porn videos.
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[Link] He escaped the Dark Web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Just over four years ago, the US Department of Justice announced the takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web market bust in history.
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[Link] The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Lots of people who use ad blockers say they do it to block malicious ads that can sometimes hack their devices or harvest sensitive information on them. It turns out, the NSA, CIA, and other agencies in the U.S.
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[Link] Police Announce Huge Bust of Mafia’s Cyber Crime Operations
Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com
Police in Europe arrested 106 people accused of working for several Italian Mafia groups and laundering more than 10 million euros they made through various cybercrimes.
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[Link] Docker changes its subscription plans, usage rules, and product line
Read: 2/9/2021 www.zdnet.com
For all Docker's container technology popularity, Docker, the company, has its problems. First, Docker had trouble finding a working business plan. Then, Docker ran short of funds.
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[Link] FTC Orders Spyware Vendor to Stop Business
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
The FTC has banned a stalkerware vendor called SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from working in the surveillance business, the agency said in an announcement on Wednesday.
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[Link] Step 1: Do a Google search. Ransomware hacker goes rogue, leaks gang's plan.
Read: 26/8/2021 www.nbcnews.com
Someone claiming to work with one of the most notorious ransomware gangs says they’re fed up with how extortion money is divvied up and has leaked a host of the gang's files on a hacker forum.
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[Link] China moves to protect personal data form misuse by tech companies
Read: 25/8/2021 the-pen.co
There is considerable interest in efforts by the Chinese government to impose greater control over major private enterprises operating in the country. Critics see this as an attack of freedom to do business. Supporters see it as a justified crackdown on corporate greed.
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[Link] New law passes giving AFP more power to infiltrate online criminal networks
Read: 25/8/2021 www.news.com.au
Police will have greater powers to infiltrate the dark web to crack down on paedophiles and criminals after a new law passed giving them amped-up surveillance capabilities online.
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[Link] Australian businesses stop reporting ransomware attacks over exfiltration doubts
Read: 24/8/2021 www.itnews.com.au
Australian businesses are incorrectly relying on what they think is a loophole in notifiable data breach laws to avoid reporting ransomware infections.
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[Link] Researcher's First Hack Was to Make Minesweeper Incredibly Easy to Beat
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
Harpaz, who is now a security researcher at cybersecurity firm Guardicore, was already working in tech and had a degree in computer science when she got curious about hacking. A colleague suggested she try reverse engineering, the art of analyzing and deconstructing software.
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[Link] Spaghetti Detective Users Boiled By Security Gaffe
Read: 22/8/2021 hackaday.com
For readers that might not spend their free time watching spools of PLA slowly unwind, The Spaghetti Detective (TSD) is an open source project that aims to use computer vision and machine learning to identify when a 3D print has failed and resulted in a pile of plastic “spaghetti” on the build p
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[Link] A Third of Global Companies Have Experienced Ransomware Attack, Survey Finds
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
Analysts surveyed almost 800 companies and found that companies based in the U.S. experienced ransomware attacks at a much lower rate (7 percent) than international companies (37 percent) this past year. The survey focused on companies with more than 500 employees.
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[Link] New phishing campaign uses Morse code to bypass security controls
Read: 15/8/2021 www.itpro.co.uk
Hackers used Morse code to evade detection in a year-long phishing campaign, according to Microsoft researchers. Researchers said the campaign, first spotted in July 2020, targeted Office 365 users and attempted to get them to hand over credentials using targeted, invoice-themed XLS.
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[Link] Conti ransomware affiliate goes rogue, leaks “gang data”
Read: 15/8/2021 nakedsecurity.sophos.com
If you like a touch of irony in your cybersecurity news, then this has been the week for it. And if that’s not enough to bring a wry smile to your lips, then there’s more.
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[Link] Discord malware is a persistent and growing threat warns Sophos
Read: 13/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com
A few weeks back, leading cybersecurity company Sophos issued a warning that Discord is becoming an increasingly common target for hackers.
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[Link] How GrayShift Keeps its iPhone Unlocking Tech Secret
Read: 12/8/2021 www.vice.com
Grayshift, the company that develops that iPhone unlocking device GrayKey that is widely used by law enforcement, tries to keep details of its technology out of the broader public's hands.
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[Link] All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theregister.com
Until February this year, Amazon Route53's DNS service offered largely unappreciated network eavesdropping capabilities. And this undocumented spying option was also available at Google Cloud DNS and at least one other DNS-as-a-service provider.
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[Link] Black-Box Attacks on Perceptual Image Hashes with GANs
Read: 7/8/2021 towardsdatascience.com
A Perceptual image hash (PIH) is a short hexadecimal string (e.g. ‘00081c3c3c181818’ ) based on an image’s appearance. Perceptual image hashes, despite being hashes, are not cryptographically secure hashes.
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[Link] The Pegasus Project Shows Tech Giants Need to Do More to Keep Users Safe
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm about industrialized insecurity for years, but the Pegasus Project has to be a line in the sand. As you might have noticed, this newsletter was dormant for the last 6 months.
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[Link] With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware
Read: 3/8/2021 arstechnica.com
Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the Brave browser and using it in Google ads to push malware that takes control of browsers and steals sensitive data. The attack worked by registering the domain xn--brav-yva[.
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[Link] Automation projects held back by security and data concerns
Read: 1/8/2021 betanews.com
A new report shows that 70 percent of automation initiatives are being hindered by security concerns and data silos, as organizations increasingly look to automation to improve efficiency and productivity.
[Link] Cybercriminals work together to drive greater profits
Read: 1/8/2021 betanews.com
Cybercrime is getting more organized than ever, as threat actors increase collaboration and adapt methods to drive greater monetization, selling access to breached systems to organized criminal groups and ransomware gangs.
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[Link] Feds list the top 30 most exploited vulnerabilities. Many are years old
Read: 31/7/2021 arstechnica.com
Government officials in the US, UK, and Australia are urging public- and private-sector organizations to secure their networks by ensuring firewalls, VPNs, and other network-perimeter devices are patched against the most widespread exploits.
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[Link] Israeli authorities investigate NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuse claims
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Israel's Ministry of Defense says the nation's government has visited spyware-for-governments developer NSO Group to investigate allegations its wares have been widely – and perhaps willingly – misused.
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[Link] NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Another malicious library has been spotted in the JavaScript-oriented NPM registry, underscoring the continued fragility of today's software supply chain.
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[Link] Iranian state-backed hackers posed as flirty Scouser called Marcy to target workers in defence and aerospace
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Iranian state-backed hackers posed as a flirty Liverpudlian aerobics instructor in order to trick defence and aerospace workers into revealing secrets, according to a newly-published study.
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[Link] From disaster to inconvenience — Zerto adds near-instant ransomware restore
Read: 30/7/2021 blocksandfiles.com
Disaster recovery specialist Zerto aims to deal with the corporate data cancer of ransomware by providing automated virtual machine protection, with restoration within seconds of an attack. Version 9.
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[Link] Malware for Macs Is Getting Bigger, More Dangerous, and It’s Dirt Cheap
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
A disturbing element of modern cybercrime is just how easy it is to procure powerful and invasive tools — the kind that can wreak total havoc on an unsuspecting victim’s computer.
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[Link] Most wanted: The top 5 online crime gangs running ransomware
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
An independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists.
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[Link] How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once
Read: 27/7/2021 www.wired.com
A massive chain reaction on Friday infected at least hundreds and likely thousands of businesses worldwide with ransomware, including a railway, pharmacy chain, and hundreds of storefronts of Sweden's Coop grocery store brand.
[Link] Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data
Read: 20/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus project includes the mobile phone numbers of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and 13 other heads of state and heads of government, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] Why You Should Switch From Android Messages Given Security Concerns
Read: 18/7/2021 www.forbes.com
Somewhat ironically, , Google seems yet again to have slipped by unnoticed. Now, hundreds of millions of Android users need to decide who they trust with their data, given recent harvesting revelations. Android Messages is trying to fix the major security holes in its architecture.
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[Link] We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals
Read: 15/7/2021 www.vice.com
'Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. See More → The sleek, black phone seems perfectly normal.
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[Link] Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole
Read: 12/7/2021 www.theregister.com
A barristers' chambers hit by a ransomware attack has responded by getting a court order demanding the criminals do not share stolen data.
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[Link] FBI to share compromised passwords with Have I Been Pwned
Read: 31/5/2021 www.bleepingcomputer.com
The FBI will soon begin to share compromised passwords with Have I Been Pwned's 'Password Pwned' service that were discovered during law enforcement investigations.
[Link] Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers
Read: 29/5/2021 newatlas.com
Engineers have designed a computer processor that thwarts hackers by randomly changing its microarchitecture every few milliseconds. Known as Morpheus, the puzzling processor has now aced its first major tests, repelling hundreds of professional hackers in a DARPA security challenge.
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[Link] This Guy Designed an Android App That Deletes All Your Phone's Data When Police Try to Crack It
Read: 19/5/2021 gizmodo.com
These days, if you’re arrested and charged with a crime, the first thing cops will likely try to do is look at the contents of your phone. Digital forensics is increasingly a favorite way to secure a conviction, or at least gain a broader understanding of a suspect.