Collaborate Disseminate
Four-year investigation shuts down EncroChat and busts 746 alleged criminals for planning murders, selling drugs and laundering money. Continue reading E.U. Authorities Crack Encryption of Massive Criminal and Murder Network
A white-hat hacker found a way to get into the French government’s newly launched, secure encrypted messaging app that otherwise can only be accessed by officials and politicians with email accounts associated with the government identities.
Dubbed “T… Continue reading Hacker Breaks Into French Government’s New Secure Messaging App
Matrix—the organization behind an open source project that offers a protocol for secure and decentralized real-time communication—has suffered a massive cyber attack after unknown attackers gained access to the servers hosting its official website and … Continue reading Encrypted Messaging Project “Matrix” Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack
WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned … Continue reading Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage
Signal, the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app, is planning to roll out a new feature that aims to hide the sender’s identity from potential attackers trying to intercept the communication.
Although messages send via secure messaging services,… Continue reading Signal Secure Messaging App Now Encrypts Sender’s Identity As Well
A recent vulnerability in the Signal messaging application that enables encrypted communication between parties, could have enabled attackers to arbitrarily remotely execute code on the victim’s device without any user interaction. Security resea… Continue reading Signal App Delivers Timely Patch for Code Injection Vulnerability that Allows Remote Code Execution
Bitmessage developers have warned of a critical ‘remotely executable’ zero-day vulnerability in the PyBitmessage application that was being exploited in the wild.
Bitmessage is a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications protocol used to send encrypted messag… Continue reading Hackers Exploiting ‘Bitmessage’ Zero-Day to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys
A recently released extension for Chrome, developed by the public key crypto database Keybase, brought end-to-end encrypted messaging to several apps this week. Continue reading Keybase Extension Brings End-to-End Encrypted Chat To Twitter, Reddit, GitHub
A recently released extension for Chrome, developed by the public key crypto database Keybase, brought end-to-end encrypted messaging to several apps this week. Continue reading Keybase Extension Brings End-to-End Encrypted Chat To Twitter, Reddit, GitHub
Yet another war on Encryption!
France and Germany are asking the European Union for new laws that would require mobile messaging services to decrypt secure communications on demand and make them available to law enforcement agencies.
French and Germa… Continue reading Germany and France declare War on Encryption to Fight Terrorism