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Hackers Planted Secret Backdoor in Dozens of WordPress Plugins and Themes

Site owners who have installed the plugins directly from AccessPress Themes’ website are advised to upgrade immediately to a safe version, or replace it with the latest version from WordPress[.]org. Additionally, it necessitates that a clean version of WordPress is deployed to revert the modifications done during the installation of the backdoor.

Screenshots of Phishing SMSs reported to Citizen Lab in 2016

Articles / CyberSecurity

A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

Based on our research and findings, we assess this to be one of the most technically sophisticated exploits we’ve ever seen, further demonstrating that the capabilities NSO provides rival those previously thought to be accessible to only a handful of nation states.

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CyberSecurity / News & Information

How to Read Your iOS 15 App Privacy Report

Your iPhone now gives you lots of transparency into what your downloads are up to. Here’s what to look out for.

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Articles / CyberSecurity

Sneaky Zero-Click Attacks Are a Hidden Menace

Hacks that can play out without any user interaction may be more common than we realize, in part because they’re so difficult to detect.

Man using tablet to make a video call with other people at dusk - Photograph: Alistair Berg/Getty Images

Articles / CyberSecurity

‘Zero-Click’ Zoom Vulnerabilities Could Have Exposed Calls

The flaws are now fixed, but they speak to the growing concerns around interactionless attacks.

Man walking along cliff next to ocean while looking at phone - Photograph: Cavan Images/Getty Images

Articles / CyberSecurity

NSO Group Spyware Targeted Dozens of Reporters in El Salvador

The newly disclosed campaign shows how little the company has done to curb abuses of its powerful surveillance tools.

person on phone walking in the shadows - Photograph: James D. Morgan

Articles / CyberSecurity

Meta Removes 7 Surveillance-for-Hire Operations From Its Platforms

While NSO Group gets most of the attention, the takedowns underscore how insidious the industry has become.

Articles / CyberSecurity

Commerce Department announces new rule aimed at stemming sale of hacking tools to Russia and China

“We’re trying to walk the line between not impairing legitimate cybersecurity collaboration across borders, but trying to make sure these pieces of hardware and software technology aren’t obtained and used by repressive governments,” the senior official said.

"Smoking Gun" by Claudio Rousselon is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Computing & Technology / Articles

Europe is adopting stricter rules on surveillance tech

The goal is to make sales of technologies like spyware and facial recognition more transparent in Europe first, and then worldwide.

Mobile Device Cybersecurity Checklist for Consumers - CISA

CyberSecurity / News & Information

Mobile Device Cybersecurity Checklist for Consumers

Simple cyber hygiene steps consumers can take to improve the cybersecurity of their mobile devices.

Exterior of NSO Group building - Photograph: Amir Levy/Getty Images

Articles / CyberSecurity

Google Warns That NSO Hacking Is On Par With Elite Nation-State Spies

ForcedEntry is “one of the most technically sophisticated exploits” Project Zero security researchers have ever seen.

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Articles / CyberSecurity

Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers

From Russian Olympic cyberattacks to billion-dollar North Korean malware, how one tech giant monitors nation-sponsored hackers everywhere on earth.

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Articles / CyberSecurity

Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation

The decision to block an “expert” level cyberattack has caused controversy inside Google after it emerged that the hackers in question were working for a US ally.

Articles / CyberSecurity

The US is worried that hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade

The US government is starting a generation-long battle against the threat next-generation computers pose to encryption.

Computer enhanced 3D diffusion spectral imaging (DSI) scan of the bundles of white matter nerve fibres in the brain. - Science Photo Library

Computing & Technology / Articles

This is how your brain makes your mind

Your mind is in fact an ongoing construction of your brain, your body, and the surrounding world.

Hackers for hire - Ariel Davis

Articles / CyberSecurity

The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail

This is a big moment of turbulence and change for the hacking business. But the demand is here to stay.

proliferating cyber surveillance concept - Ms Tech | Getty

Articles / CyberSecurity

“A grim outlook”: How cyber surveillance is booming on a global scale

New data paints a detailed picture of the ways Western companies are selling cyber weapons and surveillance technology to NATO’s enemies.

Book Cover - Countdown to Zero Day

CyberSecurity / Books, Reports, Films & Images

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon

A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.

Image credit: Ariel Davis

Articles / CyberSecurity

Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant

The world’s most notorious surveillance company says it wants to clean up its act. Go on, we’re listening.

NSO headquarters - Ms Tech | Source: AP Photo/Daniella Cheslow, File

Articles / CyberSecurity

The man who built a spyware empire says it’s time to come out of the shadows

Shalev Hulio, co-founder and CEO of NSO, says his industry is full of companies trying to avoid scrutiny.

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