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Security experts have warned about the emergence of previously unknown spyware with hacking abilities comparable to NSO Group’s Pegasus that has already been used by clients to target journalists, political opposition figures, and an employee of an NGO, The Guardian reported.
President Biden restricted the use of commercial hacking tools throughout the federal government as officials believed high-powered spyware had compromised devices belonging to at least 50 U.S. personnel working overseas, The Wall Street Journal reported. Mr. Biden signed an executive order that imposes rules limiting the acquisition and deployment of hacking tools from vendors who’s products have been linked to
Last week, the FBI arrested a man alleged to be “Pompompurin,” the administrator of the infamous and popular BreachForums, TechCrunch reported. Days after the arrest, the cybercrime website’s new administrator announced that they are shutting down the forum for good. “Please consider this the final update for Breached,” the new admin, known as “Baphomet,” wrote in the official Telegram channel.
Uber discovered its computer network had been breached on Thursday, leading the company to take several of its internal communications and engineering systems offline as it investigated the extent of the hack, The New York Times reported. The breach appeared to have compromised many of Uber’s internal systems, and a person claiming responsibility for the hack sent images of email,
Eurpol announced in a press release that a coordinated strike between several law enforcement agencies resulted in the arrest in Ukraine of “two prolific ransomware operators known for their extortionate demands (between €5 and €70 million)". The law enforcement groups involved included the French National Gendarmerie, the Ukranian National Police Force, and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, with
Have you heard of Syniverse? In short, it provides a service that works in the background and enables people to use their smartphones to call or text their friends and families. That’s exactly why it is a very big deal that Syniverse got hacked. According to Vice, Syniverse is a critical part of the global telecommunication infrastructure used by AT&T-Movile,
You may have heard of Epik (the web host - not Epic the gaming company). According to Gizmodo, Epik the web host and domain registrar provides services to Gab, Parler, and Bitchute (which Gizmodo described as “conspiracy-theory-laden YouTube wannabe), and The Donald (a President Trump fansite). Epik also recently hosted the Texas whistleblower website - which was intended to allow