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Twilio says hackers identified cell phone numbers of two-factor app Authy users

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Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio. On Tuesday, Twilio confirmed to TechCrunch that “threat actors” were able to identify the phone number of people who use Authy, a popular two-factor authentication app owned by Twilio. In a post on a well-known hacking forum, the […]

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In a major update, Proton adds privacy-safe document collaboration to Drive, its freemium E2EE cloud storage service

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Proton, the Swiss-based pro-privacy productivity app maker, has a new feather in its cap after bringing document creation, editing and collaboration capabilities to its secure cloud storage offering. The launch of Docs in Proton Drive, as the new product is branded, follows its acquisition of secure note-taking app Standard Notes in April. Proton launched Proton

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Yieldstreet says some of its customers were affected by the Evolve Bank data breach

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The alternative investment platform Yieldstreet is the latest company to reveal that its customers were affected by the recent data breach at Evolve Bank and Trust, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.  On Tuesday, Yieldstreet spokesperson Clare Burrows confirmed to TechCrunch that “some Yieldstreet customer information may have been impacted” as a consequence of the Evolve breach. 

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Hubspot says it’s investigating customer account hacks

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Marketing and sales software giant HubSpot said on Friday that it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident. On Friday, rumors of some kind of cyberattack against HubSpot began circulating on social media. When reached for comment, HubSpot spokesperson Camille Uzel told TechCrunch that on June 22 the company “identified a security incident that involved bad actors targeting

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Remote access giant TeamViewer says Russian spies hacked its corporate network

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TeamViewer, the company that makes widely used remote access tools for companies, has confirmed an ongoing cyberattack on its corporate network.  In a statement Friday, the company attributed the compromise to government-backed hackers working for Russian intelligence, known as APT29 (and Midnight Blizzard). The Germany-based company said its investigation so far points to an initial

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Startups scramble to assess fallout from Evolve Bank data breach

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On Wednesday, Evolve Bank and Trust, a financial institution that’s popular with fintech startups, announced that it had been victim of a cyberattack and data breach that could have affected its partner companies as well.   The incident, according to the company’s statement, involved “the data and personal information of some Evolve retail bank customers and

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PortSwigger, the company behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools, swallows $112M

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Sometimes the most successful startup ideas come from people building tools to solve their own needs. Such was the case with Dafydd Stuttard, a security expert who goes by Daf.  Nearly two decades ago, living in the small market town of Knutsford in Cheshire in the northwest of England, Daf was working as a security

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US charges Russian civilian for allegedly helping GRU spies target Ukrainian government systems with data-destroying malware

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The Department of Justice has charged a Russian civilian with conspiracy to destroy Ukrainian government computer systems as part of a widespread hacking effort by Russia ahead of its illegal invasion of Ukraine.  U.S. prosecutors in Maryland said Wednesday that Amin Stigal, 22, is wanted for helping to set up servers used by Russian government

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Kaspersky resellers deride US government ban: ‘Complete bulls—t’

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Last week, the U.S. government announced an unprecedented ban on selling in the United States any software made by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.  Just days after the ban’s announcement, some American companies that are official Kaspersky resellers — or managed service provider (MSP) partners — say they have been left confused, angry and worried

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