Collaborate Disseminate
Notices in Zeek Zeek’s Notice Framework enables network operators to specify how potentially interesting network findings can be reported. This decoupling of detection and reporting highlights Zeek’s flexibility: a notice-worthy event in network A may … Continue reading Telegram Zeek, you’re my main notice
Windows 11 won’t hit the street until later this year, but that hasn’t stopped hackers from trying to use it to infect victims with malware. Security firm Kaspersky warned on Friday that crooks were exploiting people overeager to get their hands on the Microsoft operating system update, due for fall release, with fake installers. “Although Microsoft has made the process of downloading and installing Windows 11 from its official website fairly straightforward, many still visit other sources to download the software, which often contains unadvertised goodies from cybercriminals (and isn’t necessarily Windows 11 at all),” Kaspersky wrote. Those sarcastic “goodies” range from relatively innocuous adware to password stealers and trojans. It’s not unprecedented for cybercriminals to use demand for a product or service to take advantage of victims, be it coronavirus contact tracing apps or the Telegram encrypted messaging app. Microsoft announced Windows 11 in late June, and shortly after […]
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An international team of computer scientists reported on Friday that they found four cryptographic vulnerabilities in the popular encrypted message app Telegram. The weaknesses range “from technically trivial and easy to exploit to more advanced and of theoretical interest,” according to the security analysis. But ultimately they prove that the four key issues “could be done better, more securely and in a more trustworthy manner with a standard approach to cryptography,” said ETH Zurich Professor Kenny Paterson, who was part of the team that uncovered the flaw. The most significant of the vulnerabilities the researchers uncovered is what they called the “crime-pizza” vulnerability. In it, an attacker could alter the order of messages coming from a client to a cloud server that Telegram operates. “For example, if the order of the messages in the sequence ‘I say “yes” to’, ‘pizza’, ‘I say “no” to’, “crime” was altered then it would […]
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Malicious COVID-19 online content – including racist content, disinformation and misinformation – thrives and spreads online by bypassing the moderation efforts of individual social media platforms. By mapping online hate clusters across si… Continue reading Malicious COVID-19 online content bypassing moderation efforts of social media platforms
For the last six years, hackers have stalked Iranian dissidents with spying tools that mimic the software those dissidents use to protect their communications, security firm Kaspersky said Wednesday. Researchers from Kaspersky and other firms only recently pieced together the activity, showing the limits of the cyber industry’s knowledge of Tehran-linked hacking against those who often bear the brunt of it: Iranian citizens. While Kaspersky researchers did not attribute the hacking to the Iranian government, FireEye, another security firm, said it suspected the hackers were affiliated with Tehran. The findings are consistent with a surveillance dragnet that Iranian authorities have used to jail and beat protesters who challenge the regime. Iranian security services killed 304 people in a 2019 crackdown, according to Amnesty International. The hackers, Kaspersky said, have sent their targets malware-laced images and videos claiming to be from prisoners in Iran. When opened, the malicious documents hijack users’ […]
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I’ve read that, to generate a link preview, the Whatsapp client (perhaps) makes a GET request to the site which the sender types directly. What about other social medias/website/messaging applications, such as Telegram in particular.
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I am using a telegram api based app named "TurboTel Pro". I am happy with its different look and settings but I am concerned about the data it would take of me.
Can someone tell me what data does these api based apps take? I read… Continue reading Security of apps based on Telegram api?
By Waqas
One major WhatsApp feature that will be limited includes receiving calls and messages as the messaging service will be disabled.
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Malicious use of manipulated visual and audio files — technology known as deepfakes — is swiftly migrating toward crime and influence operations, according to findings published Thursday. Threat intelligence company Recorded Future pointed to a recent surge in such activities and a burgeoning underground marketplace that could spell trouble for individuals and companies that use tools like facial identification technology as part of multi-factor authentication. The report mirrors similar conclusions from an FBI alert last month warning that nation-backed hackers would themselves begin using deepfakes more frequently for cyber operations as well as misinformation and disinformation. “We believe that threat actors have begun to advertise customized deepfake services that are directed at threat actors interested in bypassing security measures and to facilitate fraudulent activities, specifically fake voices and facial recognition,” the company’s Insikt Group wrote in a blog post. Recorded Future’s work focuses more on that development in the criminal […]
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By ghostadmin
ToxicEye is a new remote access Trojan (RAT) malware targeting Telegram app users – The RAT has been used for more than 130 attacks over the past three months.
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