Category Security

May 11, 2023Rabbi LakshmananEncryption/Privacy Twitter is officially starting to roll out support Encrypted Direct Message (DM) It’s been over six months since CEO Elon Musk confirmed plans for this feature in November 2022. “Phase 1” of this initiative will appear…

Twitter shares explicit photos without users’ permission, and one US company can expect to pay out $1.4 billion seven years after the infamous cyberattack. How do hackers target Eurovision? All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition…

The National Security Agency (NSA) and various international partner agencies have discovered infrastructure connected to Russia’s advanced cyber espionage tool Snake in more than 50 countries around the world. Several intelligence agencies, including the NSA, FBI, CISA, CNMF, CCCS, NCSC-UK,…

May 10, 2023Rabbi LakshmananPrivacy / Safety / Security Today at Google I/O, our annual developer conference, Google announced a number of new privacy, safety and security features. The tech giant’s latest initiative aims to protect users from cyber threats such…

A modified hardware wallet has been implicated in the theft of $30,000 worth of cryptocurrency, according to Kaspersky security experts. The loss of 1.33 BTC ($29,585) was related to new tactics, the company explained in a shared report. Information security.…

May 10, 2023Rabbi LakshmananMalware/Cyberattack Government agencies in Central Asia have been targeted by sophisticated espionage campaigns using a previously undocumented variant called malware. down x. In a report shared with The Hacker News, Bitdefender says activity remains high and there…

Joseph James O’Connor, a 23-year-old British man, has admitted to being involved in a hacking scheme targeting prominent Twitter accounts, including Barack Obama and Elon Musk. O’Connor was extradited from Spain on April 26 after being arrested nearly two years…

May 10, 2023Rabbi LakshmananVulnerability / Windows A cybersecurity researcher shares details about a security flaw currently being patched in the Windows MSHTML platform. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-29324 (CVSS score: 6.5) and described as a security feature bypass. This…

May 10, 2023Rabbi LakshmananCyber ​​Crime/Social Media A UK citizen has pleaded guilty in connection with a Twitter attack in July 2020 that affected a number of high-profile accounts and defrauded other users of the platform. Joseph James O’Connor also went…

Spanish police have arrested dozens of people suspected of being involved in serious organized crime gangs that are said to have made more than €700,000 ($767,000) from phishing victims. Among the 40 people arrested by law enforcement are two hackers…