A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in the United States. But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, […]
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Judicial and law enforcement authorities in Europe, Australia, the US, Ukraine, and Canada took down a so-called spoofing website that allowed fraudsters to impersonate trusted corporations or contacts in order to steal more than $120 million from victims. In a coordinated action led by the UK and supported by Europol and EU judicial cooperation agency […]
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The release of the enterprise version of the encrypted messaging service, announced at AWS re:Invent, is designed to allow secure collaboration across messaging, voice, video and file sharing.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsNew cluster of phishing domains registered using similar naming schemes discovered
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A database of 487 million WhatsApp users’ mobile numbers has been put up for sale on a hacking community forum. The data set contains WhatsApp user data from more than 84 countries, the post shows. The story was first reported by Cybernews. The seller of the leaked data is also offering it through the controversial messaging […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe breach affected any account with the “Let others find you by your phone” option enabled
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsLaptop technicians routinely violate the privacy of the people whose computers they repair: Researchers at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recovered logs from laptops after receiving overnight repairs from 12 commercial shops. The logs showed that technicians from six of the locations had accessed personal data and that two of those shops also copied […]
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The Council of the European Union (EU) has adopted a new cybersecurity directive designed to improve resilience and incident response capacities across the EU, replacing NIS, the current directive on the security of network and information systems. The new directive, NIS2, will set the baseline for cybersecurity risk management measures and reporting obligations across sectors […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe cybersecurity arm of Orange Business Services (OBS) organized a launch event at its Lyon campus, in France, for its latest annual threat report
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