Google has been issuing direct personal warnings to users that appear to have been targeted by a state-sponsored hacking group. The company has taken the unusual step of issuing a general public warning about an Iran-backed threat.
Germany has opened an antitrust probe into Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework. This follows a probe initiated by Poland in late 2021, and the expression of concerns along similar lines by both France and the UK.
CISA: Admin Credentials of a Former Employee Leveraged to Compromise a State Government Organization
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) discovered that a threat actor compromised a state government organization using a former employee’s leaked admin credentials.
Europol, Latvian, and Lithuanian police arrested 108 suspects involved in an international investment scam operation in 3 call centers located in Riga and Vilnius. Operation makes €3 million in profit per month.
One of the few significant holes in Apple's end user security is set to be addressed, as Cupertino has announced plans to introduce end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups. A feature Apple has delayed due primarily to pressure from US federal law enforcement agencies.
A suspected fraudster accessed credit data of 24 million South Africans and 800,000 businesses in a massive Experian data breach.
WhatsApp will soon roll out end-to-end encryption for chat backups, shutting down a favorite loophole exploited by law enforcement agencies, and giving WhatsApp an edge of market appeal.
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life) is notifying 1.4 million customers, financial professionals, and employees of a data breach that leaked their personal information via a third-party CRM platform.
FLEDGE and Google Topics can now be blocked either individually or together in the DuckDuckGo Chrome extension. Together, FLEDGE and Topics are meant to replace the standard tracking cookie used for ad targeting.
Iran's SIAM system has base-level access to the country's cellular networks and used not just for government surveillance, but also has functions that allow for remote manipulation of individual data collections and backdoors through encryption.
