Collaborate Disseminate
Japan-based virtual currency exchange Coincheck said Sunday it will refund about $400 million to customers after hackers stole hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of digital assets.
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Cryptocurrencies fell Friday after Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck suspended client deposits and withdrawals for virtual currencies except bitcoin, saying it had been hacked.
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Dutch intelligence services have provided “crucial evidence” to US counterparts about Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, Dutch media reported Friday.
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Eight rights groups including Human Rights Watch called on Lebanese authorities Wednesday to investigate reports of a massive espionage campaign traced back to a government security agency.
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A British teenager managed to access the communications accounts of top US intelligence and security officials including the then CIA chief John Brennan, a London court heard Friday.
Kane Gamble, now 18, was aged 15 and 16 when, from his bedroom in Coa… Continue reading UK Teen Gained Access to CIA Chief’s Accounts: Court
An espionage campaign using malware-infected messaging apps has been stealing smartphone data from activists, soldiers, lawyers, journalists and others in more than 20 countries, researchers said in a report Thursday.
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US authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a former CIA agent, Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, after discovering he had an unauthorized notebook that had the identities of undercover US spies.
Lee, a naturalized US citizen also known as Zhe… Continue reading Former CIA Agent Arrested With Top Secret Info
An Ontario man made his first court appearance Monday to answer charges of running a website that collected personal and password data from some three billion accounts, and sold them for profit.
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On the brink of defeat in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group has been taking refuge in its “virtual caliphate” — but even online, experts say it is in decline.
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Continue reading Islamic State Retreats Online to ‘Virtual Caliphate’
The US House of Representatives passed a crucial surveillance law Thursday that reinforced the ability of the country’s spy agencies to intercept and make use of Americans’ private communications.
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