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In the first two months of 2025, Barracuda detection systems blocked over a million phishing attacks by prominent Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms. A new report on the tools and techniques used in the attacks highlights how PhaaS platforms are evolving rapidly to become more dangerous and evasive. Many target users of popular cloud-based platforms such as Microsoft 365.

China has ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp and Threads, both owned by Meta, from its app store in the country, the New York Times reports.

GUEST RESEARCH: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released its 2024 Global Threat Analysis Report.

GUEST RESEARCH: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released a new report Hacktivism Unveiled: Insights into the Footprints of Hacktivists.

Security vendor Bitdefender has bolstered the Bitdefender Mobile Security for Android product with the addition of real-time chat protection across WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Discord.

Rockstar Games has revealed that an attacker breached its network and accessed early development footage of the next version of its well-known video game Grand Theft Auto 6.

Globant, an IT and software consultancy company based in Luxembourg, says it has found that a part of its code repository has been breached.

The same group of attackers that leaked source code for Samsung Galaxy devices earlier this month, is now claiming that it has leaked the source of Microsoft products such as Bing and Cortana and also data about the WebXT compliance engineering projects.

Russian security vendor Kaspersky has denied rumours that the source code of its products have been leaked, with the denial coming in the wake of the leak of source code from Samsung's Galaxy devices.

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has confirmed that internal company data, including source code for Galaxy devices, was pilfered during a recent intrusion.

After talking tough about cutting off functionality to users if they refuse to accept new changes to privacy from 15 May, WhatsApp has backed down and now says this will not be implemented.

If you have a Facebook account and have had one for a few years, chances are high that your phone number and other user data has been leaked to the Internet.

A version of the CANVAS exploit platform, that can be used to test the vulnerability of computer systems or to break into remote systems using exploits that come along with it, has been leaked on the VirusTotal database and can now be accessed by all paid subscribers of the service.

End-to-end encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp has put off privacy changes it planned, after pushback from users who have been moving over to Signal and Telegram in droves.

With less than six weeks to go for the US presidential election, it is not surprising that the American media is full of tales about Russian hacking, election interference and likely scenarios where some foreign country meddles in the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Cybercriminals are abusing Twitter via tech support scams, command-and-control (C&C) operations and data exfiltration, with criminals found using fake Twitter accounts to spoof those of legitimate vendors for credible tech support scams.

Secure messaging applications that offer end-to-end encryption — like Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal — can leak users' confidential information through session hijacking because they depend on the operating system they are running on to protect application state and user information.

Apple appears to have fallen in line with the block on messaging app Telegram by Russia, blocking updates to the app globally since Moscow imposed a ban on it.

Russia's efforts to block the messaging app Telegram, after the country's authorities imposed a ban on the app, are proving more difficult than first thought, due to the way such apps work.

The company behind encrypted messaging app Telegram has lost a bid in Russia's Supreme Court to prevent the state from gaining access to the encryption keys it uses.