Smashing Security podcast #264: Hacked car chargers, Telegram sextortionists, and secret bossware

Why might Russian EV chargers be displaying an anti-Putin message? Why are Telegram groups sharing sharing explicit images of women without their consent? And who is watching you in the workplace?

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Russian Hackers Employ Telekopye Toolkit in Broad Phishing Attacks

By Deeba Ahmed
Meet Telekopye, a new phishing toolkit that uses a Telegram bot to carry out its operations.
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The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That service quickly went offline, but new research reveals a number of competitors have since launched bot-based services that make it relatively easy for crooks to phish OTPs from targets. Continue reading The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots

Is there any way to de-link a secure messenger (Telegram/Signal/WhatsApp) from phone number?

I understand, that mobile phone verification is probably the most convenient way to validate real users and avoid spam, but those "secure/private" messengers are afterward still bound to phone numbers, and this has inherent vulne… Continue reading Is there any way to de-link a secure messenger (Telegram/Signal/WhatsApp) from phone number?

EMS announces fully managed bridge with WhatsApp, keeps an audit trail of conversation

EMS now offers a fully managed WhatsApp Bridging service (powered by Tulir’s open source mautrix-whatsapp bridge). Element gives a company a powerful end-to-end encrypted collaboration and messaging platform, and one that interoperates with WhatsApp to… Continue reading EMS announces fully managed bridge with WhatsApp, keeps an audit trail of conversation