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How Russian hackers went after NGOs’ WhatsApp accounts

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How Russian hackers went after NGOs’ WhatsApp accounts 2025-01-17 at 17:34 By Zeljka Zorz Star Blizzard, a threat actor tied to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), was spotted attempting to compromise targets’ WhatsApp accounts through a clever phishing campaign. The campaign The campaign started with a spear-phishing email that was made to look like […]

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Iranian Hackers Targeted WhatsApp Accounts of Staffers in Biden, Trump Administrations, Meta Says

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Iranian Hackers Targeted WhatsApp Accounts of Staffers in Biden, Trump Administrations, Meta Says 2024-08-25 at 19:46 By Associated Press Meta said it discovered a network of Iranian hackers, who posed as tech support agents for companies including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. The post Iranian Hackers Targeted WhatsApp Accounts of Staffers in Biden, Trump Administrations,

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Meta plans to prevent disinformation and AI-generated content from influencing voters

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Meta plans to prevent disinformation and AI-generated content from influencing voters 2024-02-27 at 14:50 By Zeljka Zorz Meta, the company that owns some of the biggest social networks in use today, has explained how it means to tackle disinformation related to the upcoming EU Parliament elections, with a special emphasis on how it plans to

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Signal Pours Cold Water on Zero-Day Exploit Rumors

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Signal Pours Cold Water on Zero-Day Exploit Rumors 16/10/2023 at 17:47 By Ryan Naraine Privacy-focused messaging firm Signal is pouring cold water on widespread rumors of a zero-day exploit in its popular encrypted chat app. The post Signal Pours Cold Water on Zero-Day Exploit Rumors appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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WhatsApp allows users to lock sensitive chats

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WhatsApp allows users to lock sensitive chats 16/05/2023 at 11:53 By Helga Labus Meta has unveiled Chat Lock within WhatsApp, a feature that allows users to keep sensitive and intimate conversations safe from prying eyes. WhatsApp Chat Lock (Source: WhatsApp) Enabling Chat Lock By tapping on a one-to-one or group conversation, users can easily enable

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The WhatsApp of secure computation

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The WhatsApp of secure computation 08/05/2023 at 08:09 By Help Net Security A key term when discussing encryption these days is end-to-end (E2E) encryption. The idea with E2E encryption is that data is kept confidential between the encryptor and the intended receiver. This might seem an obvious requirement, but not all so-called secure systems offer

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