Security News > 2020 > March > You know all those stories of leaky cloud buckets taken offline? Well, some may still be there, just badly hidden

Shortly after our story was published, an infoec bod, who asked to remain anonymous, told El Reg they could access the files in the leaky bucket weeks after it was supposedly taken down.

A report from Google claims phishing attacks from government-backed spies are increasingly disguised as messages from journalists.

Attackers impersonate a journalist to seed false stories with other reporters to spread disinformation," Google writes.

Later in the report, Google revealed it had found one instance where a state-sponsored group packed a whopping five exploits, all of them zero-days, into a single campaign.

A report from Cognosec security researcher Dhiraj Mishra explains how a vulnerability in the popular VLC video software can be used to lift videos from an iOS device.

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