Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
For the less technical
- India’s internet shutdowns cost its economy nearly $3 billion in 2020
- WhatsApp moves forward the date to accept its new terms to May 15
- Parler is gone, but hackers say they downloaded everything first
- Mozilla: We need more than deplatforming
- 1 million highly sensitive NSFW pictures leaked by Korean teen dating app
- New Zealand Reserve Bank suffers data breach via hacked storage partner + more information
- DarkMarket: world’s largest illegal dark web marketplace taken down
- Owner of Bitcoin exchange sentenced to prison for money laundering
- All v3 onion addresses down after attack on the Tor network
- NSA: DNS over HTTPS provides “false sense of security”
For the more technical
- Microsoft fixes Defender zero-day in January 2021 Patch Tuesday
- Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file’s icon
- Remote code execution in Microsoft Office 365
- Create post on any Facebook page
- Running a fake power plant on the internet for a month
- How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state
- Introducing the In-the-Wild series [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- Going Rogue – a mastermind behind Android malware returns with a new RAT
- Imitation is the sincerest form of fraudery
- Russian-speaking scammers lure Europeans to pages mimicking classifieds
- Verified Twitter accounts hacked in $580k ‘Elon Musk’ crypto scam
- Inside Ryuk crime (crypto) ledger & risky Asian crypto traders
- Inside of CL0P’s ransomware operation
- APT27 turns to ransomware (PDF)
- Darkside ransomware decryption tool
- SolarLeaks site claims to sell data stolen in SolarWinds attacks
- Sunburst backdoor – code overlaps with Kazuar
- SUNSPOT: An implant in the build process
- Operation Spalax: Targeted malware attacks in Colombia
- Trickbot still alive and well
- WhatsApp private groups were accessible again to anyone searching on Google
- WhatsApp beaten by Apple’s new iMessage privacy update
- Default credentials cheat sheet
- Awesome note-taking apps for hackers
- Open Source Stash
- Privacy-friendly alternatives to Facebook that don’t track you
- [VIDEO] How Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot learns to dance
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