The FBI is warning users of popular email services such as Outlook and Gmail that they could be subject to cyberattacks by ransomware called Medusa, which has impacted more than 300 victims from a number of sectors, including technology, legal, medical and manufacturing…
Israel Maneuvered to Prevent Disclosure of State Secrets Amid WhatsApp vs NSO Lawsuit…
Documents reveal how Israel seized files, suppressed information related to WhatsApp’s lawsuit against Pegasus spyware vendor NSO…
More: Israel Tried to Frustrate U.S. Lawsuit over Pegasus Spyware…
Israeli officials seized documents about Pegasus spyware from its manufacturer, NSO Group, in an effort to prevent the company from being able to comply with demands made by WhatsApp in a US court to hand over information about the invasive technology…
Google Says NSO Pegasus Zero-Click ‘Most Technically Sophisticated Exploit Ever Seen’…
Security researchers at Google’s Project Zero have picked apart one of the most notorious in-the-wild iPhone exploits and found a never-before-seen hacking roadmap that included a PDF file pretending to be a GIF image with a custom-coded virtual CPU built out of boolean pixel operations…
How Is This Co. Even in Business?: Facebook Harvesting New Users’ Email Contacts ‘Without Consent’…
According to Business Insider, the company, which has been plagued by dozens of privacy and security scandals over the past few years, is asking “some new users to provide the social network with the password to their email accounts,” which Facebook then reportedly uses to import the user’s contacts, “despite not asking the user for […]
Ukrainian Cyber-Thieves Bagged $50M in Bitcoin Phishing Scam…
Security analysts at the US technology corporation Cisco have exposed a bitcoin phishing scam, which involves web resources disguising themselves as one of the world’s most popular online wallets, Blockchain.info. Cisco has been investigating the case over the past six months in partnership with Ukrainian Cyber-police, according to the firm’s security experts Dave Maynor and […]
John Podesta Wasn’t ‘Hacked,’ He Fell For An Email Phishing Scam…
John Podesta didn’t have his email “hacked,” he fell for a phishing scam. Podesta had a Gmail account. Gmail’s servers were at no point hacked into or compromised. Podesta’s password was not guessed in some sort of brute force attack…