Security News

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

Explore four different large language models for free at Duck.ai. Having an existing account is not required.

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.

Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats
2024-01-17 23:21

Research made public on Tuesday detailed how miscreants can exploit the hole to read data they're not supposed to in a system's local GPU memory. While the flaw potentially affects all GPU applications on vulnerable chips, it is especially concerning for those processing machine-learning applications because of the amount of data these models process using GPUs, and therefore the amount of potentially sensitive information that could be swiped by exploiting this issue.

Discord in the ranks: Lone Airman behind top-secret info leak on chat platform
2023-12-12 18:00

The US Air Force reached that conclusion in an August report [PDF] made public yesterday into the actions of Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, who was arrested in April on suspicion that he had stolen and shared classified military documents on a private Discord server that later found their way to the wider internet - and, presumably, into the hands of foreign governments. Per the USAF report, Teixeira "Was observed viewing intelligence content on TS-SCI websites" in August 2022, and while his supervisor was informed, the incident wasn't otherwise documented.

Meta Launches Default End-to-End Encryption for Chats and Calls on Messenger
2023-12-07 05:52

Meta has officially begun to roll out support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger for personal calls and one-to-one personal messages by default in what it called the "most significant...

French government recommends against using foreign chat apps
2023-12-01 18:12

Prime Minister of France Élisabeth Borne signed a circular last week requesting all government employees to uninstall foreign communication apps such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram by December 8, 2023, in favor of a French messaging app named 'Olvid. BleepingComputer discussed the development with French journalists, who clarified that this isn't a ban on using foreign messaging apps but rather a recommendation to switch to locally developed software.