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China-backed hackers targeted White House journalists before January 6

Researchers at cybersecurity company Proofpoint said they have observed the China-backed advanced persistent threat group, TA412, also known as Zirconium, engaging in several reconnaissance phishing campaigns since early last year. […]




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Chrome will now silence many of those annoying notification permission prompts on the web

Google today announced a set of new and updated security features for Chrome, almost all of which rely on machine learning (ML) models, as well as a couple of nifty […]




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Mailchimp says an internal tool was used to breach hundreds of accounts

Email marketing giant Mailchimp has confirmed a data breach after malicious hackers compromised an internal company tool to gain access to customer accounts. In a statement given to TechCrunch, Mailchimp […]




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Ukraine says Belarusian hackers are targeting its defense forces

Ukrainian cybersecurity officials have warned that Belarusian state-sponsored hackers are targeting the private email addresses of Ukrainian military personnel. Announcing the activity in a Facebook post, Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response […]




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Microsoft seizes control of websites used by China-backed hackers

Microsoft has seized control of a number of websites that were being used by a Chinese government-backed hacking group to target organizations in 29 countries, including the U.S. Microsoft’s Digital […]




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Google to give security keys to ‘high risk’ users targeted by government hackers

Google has said it will provide 10,000 “high-risk” users with free hardware security keys, days after the company warned thousands of Gmail users that they were targeted by state-sponsored hackers. […]




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Per E-Mail – Kriminelle erpressen mit angeblichen Sexvideos

„Ich habe eine schlechte Nachricht für Sie …“So beginnt eine perfide Erpresser-E-Mail, die aktuell massenhaft von Kriminellen versendet wird. Die Nachricht, die dann folgt, liest sich bedrohlich: Ein Hacker habe die […]




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Geklaute Daten – Internet-Kriminelle nutzen immer öfter Telegram

Die Messenger-App Telegram wird immer mehr zur Nachrichten- und Handelsplattform für Kriminelle! Das ist das Ergebnis einer Analyse von IT-Sicherheitsexperten der Firma Cyberint gemeinsam mit der US-Zeitung „Financial Times“.Die Cyberint-Experten […]