Yandex Employee Caught Selling Access to Users’ Email Inboxes

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Russian Dutch-domiciled search engine, ride-hailing and  email service provider Yandex on Friday disclosed a data breach that compromised 4,887 email accounts of its users. The company blamed the incident on …

Secret Chat in Telegram Left Self-Destructing Media Files On Devices

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Popular messaging app Telegram fixed a privacy-defeating bug in its macOS app that made it possible to access self-destructing audio and video messages long after they disappeared from secret chats. …

Researchers Uncover Android Spying Campaign Targeting Pakistan Officials

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Two new Android surveillanceware families have been found to target military, nuclear, and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a pro-India, state-sponsored hacking campaign. Dubbed Hornbill and …

Poor Password Security Led to Recent Water Treatment Facility Hack

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New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments. …

Iranian Hackers Utilize ScreenConnect to Spy On UAE, Kuwait Government Agencies

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UAE and Kuwait government agencies are targets of a new cyberespionage campaign potentially carried out by Iranian threat actors, according to new research. Attributing the operation to be the work …

Dependency Confusion Supply-Chain Attack Hit Over 35 High-Profile Companies

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In what’s a novel supply chain attack, a security researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies’ internal systems, including that of Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Yelp, Tesla, and …