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Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix
2024-12-04 08:32

They took the red pill French and Dutch police have taken down the Matrix chat app, which was designed by criminals for criminals to be a secure encrypted messaging tool.…

Police seize Matrix encrypted chat service after spying on criminals
2024-12-03 15:27

An international law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Passionflower' has shut down MATRIX, an encrypted messaging platform used by cybercriminals to coordinate illegal activities while...

Police takes down Matrix encrypted chat service used by criminals
2024-12-03 15:07

A joint investigation team involving French and Dutch authorities has taken down Matrix, yet another end-to-end encrypted chat service created for criminals. Matrix (Source: Dutch Police) The...

Signal introduces convenient "call links" for private group chats
2024-11-12 17:26

The Signal messenger application has announced a set of new features aimed at making private group chats more convenient and easier for people to join. [...]

Europol Shuts Down iServer Phishing Scheme and Ghost Cybercrime Chat Platform
2024-09-20 12:58

Law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of an international criminal network that leveraged a phishing platform to unlock stolen or lost mobile phones. The phishing-as-a-service...

WhatsApp still working on making View Once chats actually disappear for all
2024-09-18 00:16

So far it's more like View Forever Updated Meta's efforts to stop people repeatedly viewing WhatsApp’s so-called View Once messages – photos, videos, and voice recordings that disappear from chats...

DuckDuckGo Joins AI Chat, Promises Enhanced Anonymity
2024-09-16 16:07

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German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx
2024-03-04 17:45

Roderich Kiesewetter, deputy chairman of the German parliament's oversight committee, said the Bundeswehr leak was possibly caused by a Russian agent inside the WebEx call or the Bundeswehr's implementation of it, but the country is still working on discovering how the intrusion took place. RT has since made a number of claims after publishing the call, including that the conversation provides proof that Germany was planning to help Ukraine to destroy the Kerch Bridge that connects Russia to the illegally annexed Crimea.

Apple promises to protect iMessage chats from quantum computers
2024-02-21 21:09

Apple says it's going to upgrade the cryptographic protocol used by iMessage to hopefully prevent the decryption of conversations by quantum computers, should those machines ever exist in a meaningful way. The protocol, dubbed PQ3, is intended to safeguard users' chats in some future era of quantum computing, when these computers may be able to break classical encryption methods and render today's messaging security obsolete.

Microsoft Teams phishing pushes DarkGate malware via group chats
2024-01-30 17:47

New phishing attacks abuse Microsoft Teams group chat requests to push malicious attachments that install DarkGate malware payloads on victims' systems. The attackers used what looks like a compromised Teams user to send over 1,000 malicious Teams group chat invites, according to AT&T Cybersecurity research.