The German police have successfully deanonymized at least four Tor users. It appears they watch known Tor relays and known suspects, and use timing analysis to figure out who is using what relay. Tor has written about this. Hacker News thread. Tags: de-anonymization, law enforcement, Tor Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.
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Sherlock Holmes is famous for his incredible ability to sort through mounds of information; he removes the irrelevant and exposes the hidden truth. His philosophy is plain yet brilliant: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Rather than following every lead, Holmes focuses on the details that are […]
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The Dutch National Police, along with international partners, have announced the disruption of the infrastructure powering two information stealers tracked as RedLine and MetaStealer. The takedown, which took place on October 28, 2024, is the result of an international law enforcement task force codenamed Operation Magnus that involved authorities from the U.S., the U.K., Belgium, […]
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The U.S. government (USG) has issued new guidance governing the use of the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) to handle threat intelligence information shared between the private sector, individual researchers, and Federal Departments and Agencies. “The USG follows TLP markings on cybersecurity information voluntarily shared by an individual, company, or other any organization, when not in […]
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More than six years after the Spectre security flaw impacting modern CPU processors came to light, new research has found that the latest AMD and Intel processors are still susceptible to speculative execution attacks. The attack, disclosed by ETH Zürich researchers Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi, aims to undermine the Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) […]
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China-Linked Hackers Target U.S. Internet Providers in Massive Cyber Espionage Campaign Beijing-backed hackers are breaching American ISPs, raising concerns about critical infrastructure security Chinese hackers just waltzed into U.S. internet networks like they knew the Wi-Fi password all along—and they’re after sensitive data. Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups have slipped into several U.S. internet service providers […]
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Graham CLULEY October 28, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial One of the largest internet providers in France, Free S.A.S, has confirmed that it recently suffered a cybersecurity breach after a hacker attempted to sell what purported to be stolen data from the organisation on the dark web. […]
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A government entity and a religious organization in Taiwan were the target of a China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda that infected them with a previously undocumented post-compromise toolset codenamed CloudScout. “The CloudScout toolset is capable of retrieving data from various cloud services by leveraging stolen web session cookies,” ESET security researcher Anh Ho […]
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It’s low tech, but effective. Why Germany? It has more ATMs than other European countries, and—if I read the article right—they have more money in them. Tags: ATMs, banking, bombs, theft Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.
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