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@josephcox has written a book, “Dark Wire,” about an encrypted messaging service app called Anom, which is used by drug traffickers but was infiltrated by the FBI and Australian Federal Police (AFP). @404mediaco has published this extract about how a kidnapping was both planned and foiled on Anom.
So tomorrow is going to suck I need upgrade my PfSense firewall and apparently there is a bug that requires a reinstall to get it fixed as the partition was too small. Then I can get around to setting up @protonprivacy and @bitwarden but I am keeping @keepassxc for the TOTP MFA, because I don’t want to store those in the same password manager. Also rotating all passwords and setting up new Yubikeys then migrating from Ledger to Trezor #infosec
Last year, CrowdStrike published a report on a new crypto-mining operation that was targeting exposed Kubernetes systems with a miner for the Dero cryptocurrency token.
The Cyber Partisans say they hacked the Belarusian State University.
The group claims it obtained documents and audio records from the university's internal network showing how its leadership dismissed staff and students who participated in anti-government protests.
The files show that the university declined to admit new students who participated in protests and left comments online against the dictatorship.
Analyst1 has published a report that looks at the history of a ransomware operation named RansomHouse.
Researchers say the platform has been used by threat actors with links to ransomware gangs such as White Rabbit, Mario ESXi, RagnarLocker, and Dark Angels (Dunghill Leak).
Stylized 3D illustration for an early-2000s article in the Dutch PC-Active magazine, about a mobile phone virus. This was before smartphones were introduced. 🙂
Folks who worked on it will move on to new features and the ownership will be transferred to the servicing devision (WSD).
After a while WSD will get fed up with the cost of maintaining yet another rarely used shell feature and will deprecate it. Either that or the shell team will rewrite everything again and drop it.
See: Cortana, Timeline, People on the Taskbar, Chat, Live tiles.