Security News

Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause'
2024-11-21 10:38

Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used The UK government has set out plans detailing how it will use the new law it has created to control online...

Mustang Panda Deploys Advanced Malware to Spy on Asia-Pacific Governments
2024-09-10 09:57

The threat actor tracked as Mustang Panda has refined its malware arsenal to include new tools in order to facilitate data exfiltration and the deployment of next-stage payloads, according to new...

South Korea says DPRK hackers stole spy plane technical data
2024-08-12 20:22

South Korea's ruling party, People Power Party (PPP), has issued an announcement stating that North Korean hackers have stolen crucial information about K2 tanks, the country's main battle tank,...

I spy another mSpy breach: Millions more stalkerware buyers exposed
2024-07-15 02:01

Infosec in brief Commercial spyware maker mSpy has been breached - again - and millions of purchasers can be identified from the spilled records. "Comprising 142GB of user data and support tickets along with 176GB of more than half a million attachments, the data contained 2.4M unique email addresses, IP addresses names and photos," the mSpy entry on Have I Been Pwned reads.

New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency to Spy on Users' Web Activities
2024-06-28 09:59

A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new side-channel attack known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user's web activity....

NSA guy who tried and failed to spy for Russia gets 262 months in the slammer
2024-04-30 17:01

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Discord dismantles Spy.pet site that snooped on millions of users
2024-04-29 02:29

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Head of Israeli cyber spy unit exposed ... by his own privacy mistake
2024-04-08 06:28

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Feds finally decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes in phone networks
2024-04-02 23:17

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White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers
2024-02-29 21:44

The Biden Administration has asked a court, rather than Congress, to renew controversial warrantless surveillance powers used by American intelligence and due to expire within weeks. US Senator Ron Wyden railed at the US Department of Justice's decision to seek a year-long extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to end in mid-April unless Congress reauthorizes it.