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US said to halt offensive cyber operations against Russia 

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The United States has suspended its offensive cyber operations against Russia, according to reports, amid efforts by the Trump administration to grant Moscow concessions to end the war in Ukraine. The reported order to halt U.S.-launched hacking operations against Russia was authorized by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to The Record. The new guidance […]

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As Skype shuts down, its legacy is end-to-end encryption for the masses

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In the early evening of March 5, 2012, in Cairo, Egyptian revolutionaries stormed the headquarters of the secret police called the State Security Investigations (SSI) service, a building known as “the capital of hell” because of its reputation as a place where ruthless officers tortured prisoners.  Inside, protesters found both intact and shredded documents, torture

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Researchers uncover unknown Android flaws used to hack into a student’s phone

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Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On Friday, Amnesty International published a report detailing a chain of three zero-day vulnerabilities developed by phone-unlocking company Cellebrite, which its researchers found after investigating the hack of a student protester’s phone in Serbia. The

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Belgium investigating alleged cyberattack on intelligence agency by China-linked hackers

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Belgium is investigating an alleged data breach of its state security service (VSSE) by Chinese government hackers.  In a statement sent to TechCrunch on Friday, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said an investigation into a cyberattack was opened in November 2023 after it learned about the alleged breach.  This confirms an earlier report by the

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Spyzie stalkerware is spying on thousands of Android and iPhone users

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A little-known phone surveillance operation called Spyzie has compromised more than half a million Android devices and thousands of iPhones and iPads, according to data shared by a security researcher.  Most of the affected device owners, who are unknown, are likely unaware that their phone data has been compromised. The security researcher told TechCrunch that

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Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps

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There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers market their software — sometimes referred to as stalkerware — to jealous partners who can use these apps to access their victims’ phones remotely.  Yet, despite how sensitive this data is, an increasing number of

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Cellebrite suspends Serbia as customer after claims police used firm’s tech to plant spyware

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Cellebrite announced on Tuesday that it stopped Serbia from using its technology, following allegations that Serbian police and intelligence used Cellebrite’s technology to unlock the phones of a journalist and an activist, and then plant spyware.  In December 2024, Amnesty International published a report that accused Serbian police of using Cellebrite’s forensics tools to hack

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Hackers publish sensitive patient data allegedly stolen from Australian IVF provider Genea

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Hackers claim to have published a trove of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a cyberattack on Genea, one of Australia’s largest fertility providers.  Genea said last week that it had experienced a cybersecurity incident that led to sensitive patient information potentially being compromised. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Wednesday, Genea CEO

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Thousands of exposed GitHub repositories, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot

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Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. Thousands of once-public GitHub repositories from some of the world’s biggest companies are affected, including Microsoft’s, according to new findings from Lasso, an Israeli cybersecurity

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