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Die USA und Großbritannien haben wegen des Verdachts auf Cyberspionage Sanktionen gegen China angekündigt. Betroffen sind demnach in beiden Ländern Millionen Menschen, darunter auch Regierungsbeamte. Der stellvertretende Premierminister Oliver Dowden erklärte, von "mit dem chinesischen Staat verbundene Akteure" seien für zwei "bösartige Cyber-Kampagnen". Man werde, so wie andere internationale Partner Großbritanniens, wie etwa die USA, China für die "anhaltenden feindseligen Aktivitäten gegen unsere gemeinsamen Demokratien zur Rechenschaft ziehen". "Der Feind sind falsche Informationen": Cyber...
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A court in the UK is scheduled Tuesday to rule whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gets one final appeal to challenge extradition to the United States on espionage charges. Two judges are due to issue a judgment in the High Court that could put an end to Assange's long legal saga or further extend it. If he fails in winning the right to appeal, his legal team fears he could be swiftly sent to the US to face charges, though they’re likely to ask the European Court of Human Rights to block any transfer. Why is WikiLeaks founder and hacker Julian Assange facing extradition to the US?Assange,...
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Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone's digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that is striving to give consumers more choices - at the risk of creating new avenues for hackers to steal personal and financial information stored on the devices. The overhaul that rolled out on Thursday last week in the European Union represents the biggest changes to the iPhone's App Store since Apple introduced the concept in 2008. Among other things, people in Europe can download iPhone apps from stores not operated by Apple and are getting alternative ways to pay for in-app transac...
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LockBit, known as the most "harmful" ransomware in the world, has been disrupted by cybersecurity officials, with two people arrested, British, US and European officials said on Tuesday. Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA), said it led an international operation targeting the group that has extracted $120 million (€110 million) from thousands of victims around the world. The operation resulted in the arrests of two people in Poland and Ukraine and the seizure of 200 cryptocurrency accounts, officials said at a joint news conference. The Justice Department, meanwhile, unsealed indictments aga...
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Over 33 million people in France - nearly half of its population - have been impacted by the country’s biggest-ever cyberattack. Two French service providers for medical insurance companies were targetted, with the companies admitting that millions of people’s data were exposed to the hackers. "This is the first time there has been a breach on such a scale," Yann Padova, a lawyer specialising in digital data protection and former Secretary General of the French data protection authority (CNIL) told French broadcaster Franceinfo on Thursday. According to Padova, this is "the biggest security br...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Hackers linked to Russia's intelligence service broke into email accounts of senior Microsoft executives, according to a regulatory filing available Friday. Microsoft identified the cyber attacker as a group referred to as "Midnight Blizzard," which it said has been connected to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service by US and British governments. "This threat actor is known to primarily target governments, diplomatic entities, non-government organizations, and IT service providers primarily in the US and Europe," Microsoft said in a blog post in August last year detailing...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Personal genetics firm 23andMe on Tuesday confirmed that hackers using stolen passwords accessed the personal information about 6.9 million of its members. While the hackers were only able to get into about 14,000 accounts, or 0.1 percent of its customers, they were able to see information shared by genetically linked relatives at 23andMe, a spokesperson said in reply to an AFP inquiry. 23andMe is in the process of notifying affected customers and has hardened account security by requiring users to reset passwords and set up a second authentication method such as sending ...
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By Hera Rizwan Last week, several opposition leaders in India received an identical message on their iPhones. “State-sponsored attackers may be targeting your iPhone,” the message read. Among the politicians who received the alert were Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, MP and chief of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party, Asaduddin Owaisi, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and party's spokespersons, Pawan Khera and Supriya Shrinate. However, the tech giant Apple on October 31,issued a statement saying that it does not attribute “state-sponsored a...
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Washington (AFP) - A 22-year-old Frenchman who was extradited to the United States from Morocco and charged with cybercrimes has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and identity theft, officials said. Sebastien Raoult, also known as Sezyo Kaizen, entered the guilty plea on Wednesday in US District Court in Seattle, Washington, acting US Attorney Tessa Gorman said in a statement. Originally from Epinal in eastern France, Raoult was arrested in Morocco last year and extradited to the United States in January. Raoult and two co-conspirators, Gabriel Bildstein and Abdel-Hakim El-Ahma...
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Washington (AFP) - Chinese-based hackers seeking intelligence information breached the email accounts of a number of US government agencies, computer giant Microsoft said. "The threat actor Microsoft links to this incident is an adversary based in China that Microsoft calls Storm-0558," the company said in a blog post late Tuesday. Microsoft said Storm-0558 gained access to email accounts at approximately 25 organizations including government agencies. Microsoft did not identify the targets but a US State Department spokesperson said the department had "detected anomalous activity" and had tak...
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