Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
After federal police came to an employee’s house to ask questions, encrypted messaging company Session has decided to leave Australia and switch to a foundation model based in Switzerland.
Police Hack Into ‘Ghost’, An Encrypted Platform for Criminals
Operation Kraken is a sign that organized criminals are moving away from larger encrypted phone companies to a decentralized collection of smaller players and consumer access apps that the rest of us use.
Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
This blog is reserved for more serious things, and ordinarily I wouldn't spend time on questions like the above. But much as I'd like to spend my time writing about exciting topics, sometimes the world requires a bit of what Brad Delong calls "Intellectual Garbage Pickup," namely: correcting wrong, or mostly-wrong ideas that spread unchecked…
TeamViewer: Hackers copied employee directory data and encrypted passwords
TeamViewer says that a recently discovered breach appears to be limited to its internal corporate IT network. The software company has attributed it to a hacking operation associated with Russian intelligence.
Dismantling encrypted criminal EncroChat communications leads to over 6 500 arrests and close to EUR 900 million seized
The dismantling of EncroChat in 2020 sent shockwaves across OCGs in Europe and beyond. It helped to prevent violent attacks, attempted murders, corruption and large-scale drug transports, as well as obtain large-scale information on organised crime. OCGs worldwide illegally used the encryption tool EncroChat for criminal purposes. Since the dismantling, investigators managed to intercept, share and analyse over 115...
Microsoft Encrypted Restricted Permission Messages Deliver Phishing | Trustwave
Over the past few days, we have seen phishing attacks that use a combination of compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and .rpmsg encrypted emails to deliver the phishing message.