Tag: Cybersecurity
Serbian police used Cellebrite to unlock, then plant spyware, on a journalist’s phone
This year, a Serbian journalist and an activist had their phones hacked by local authorities using a cellphone-unlocking device made by forensic tool...
UnitedHealth’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet
Healthcare giant Optum has restricted access to an internal AI chatbot used by employees after a security researcher found it was publicly accessible...
Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of ‘red team,’ under new CTO
Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team — known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned.
Overall, the...
Bitcoin ATM giant Byte Federal says 58,000 users’ personal data compromised in breach
Byte Federal, one of the largest Bitcoin ATM operators in the U.S., said the personal data of thousands of customers may have been...
Russian government spies targeted Ukraine using tools developed by cybercriminals
A Russian-government backed hacking group targeted Ukraine’s military using tools and infrastructure developed by cybercriminals, according to new research.
On Wednesday, Microsoft published a...
Researchers uncover Chinese spyware used to target Android devices
Security researchers have uncovered a new surveillance tool that they say has been used by Chinese law enforcement to collect sensitive information from...