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German authorities have seized today a web server that hosted BlueLeaks, a website that provided access to internal documents stolen from US police departments. The server belonged to DDoSecrets (Distributed Denial of Secrets), an activist group that published the files last month, in mid-June. The server seizure was announced today by investigative journalist Emma Best, […] More
Microsoft has obtained a court order this month allowing the company to seize control of six domains that were used in phishing operations against Office 365 customers, including in campaigns that leveraged COVID-19 lures. According to court documents obtained by ZDNet, Microsoft has targeted a phishing group that has been targeting the company’s customers since […] More
Image: Gemini Advisory A hacking group known as “Keeper” is responsible for security breaches at more than 570 online e-commerce portals over the last three years. The Keeper gang broke into online store backends, altered their source code, and inserted malicious scripts that logged payment card details entered by shoppers in checkout forms. These types […] More
Researchers have come up with a way to pinpoint the location of drone operators seeking to cause harm or disruption in protected airspace. In 2018, the chaos that can be caused by drone operators near sensitive areas — such as military bases or airports — was highlighted by the Gatwick drone incident, in which the […] More
These days, the ability to keep track of the passwords you use with secure online services is a basic feature for web browsers. The feature is typically turned on by default, which means you probably have a random collection of passwords saved in the cloud along with your bookmarks and settings for your default browser. […] More
Microsoft has unveiled Project Freta, a potential future virtual-machine (VM) forensics service that will allow anyone to automatically ferret out malicious software hiding in memory on cloud infrastructure. But unlike Microsoft’s commercial security services and innovations for Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Project Freta comes from Microsoft Research and for now is classified as […] More
A newly uncovered phishing group is targeting big companies around the world. It’s thought to be the first major scam gang of its type operating out of Russia, indicating a potential shift in the cyber-threat landscape. Business email compromise (BEC) scams can be highly lucrative for cyber criminals, with organisations losing hundreds of millions of dollars a […] More
The more I play with Android, the more I keep finding new things that I just don’t see people using. It’s a bit like iOS on the iPhone — people use a certain set of features, but don’t often go digging into the settings looking for something new and hidden to play with. For me, […] More
