Recently discovered Spring4Shell vulnerability has been leveraged to spread Mirai botnet malware in recent attacks. Security researchers say that a recent campaign is focusing on organizations in Singapore.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
Pegasus spyware was used to track journalists, lawyers and activists in Jordan from 2019 to late 2021. Some specific incidents occurred on iPhones after Apple had sued NSO Group and removed exploits.
A new consumer privacy act has been signed into law in Utah and takes effect as 2023 ends, the fourth state bill of this nature to be passed. It is the most business-friendly of the bunch.
The Hydra darknet market with an estimated annual turnover of $1.35 billion was taken down. It had about 17 million users and 19,000 registered seller accounts prior to the bust.
The FBI software is used for keyword-based social media tracking and advertises a "predictive analytics" feature, leading to natural questions about its potential use for surveillance.
Hackers recently gained access to internal tools at leading email marketing platform Mailchimp, and made use of them in targeted phishing attacks on owners of crypto wallets.
EU rules that would force all movements of cryptocurrency to be traceable by law enforcement authorities are moving forward, which could put an end to anonymous crypto transactions in the region.
Survey expressing anti-Microsoft sentiment was paid for in part and published by Google Cloud. It polled 2,600 currently employed residents of the US, 338 of these government employees.
Proposed federal budget would set aside $9.8 billion in civilian cybersecurity funding in total, which would be in addition to the $10.4 billion the Department of Defense is looking to spend.
Anonymous inside sources revealed that an attack campaign conducted in the middle of 2021 netted sensitive user data from Apple and Meta, with the hackers posing as legitimate law enforcement agencies.
