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FBI and AFP Created a Fake Encrypted Chat Platform to Catch Criminals In the “largest and most sophisticated law enforcement operations to date,” a joint international law enforcement created a fake end-to-end encrypted chat platform designed solely to catch criminals. The FBI and the Australian Federal Police started cooperating three years ago in Operation Ironside (aka
Major websites around the world are either completely down or not loading properly in a global outage. As noticed by BleepingComputer, sites currently impacted by this outage include: Amazon Amazon Web Services (AWS) CNN Debian.org repos (https://deb.debian.org/) GOV.UK GitHub Heroku (https://dashboard.heroku.com/) PyPI.org Reddit RubyGems.org Shopify StackOverflow TechRadar The Verge TomsGuide This is not an exhaustive list as
US Recovers Most of Colonial Pipeline’s $4.4M Ransomware Payment The US Department of Justice has recovered the majority of the $4.4 million ransom payment paid by Colonial Pipeline to the DarkSide ransomware operation. On May 7th, Colonial Pipeline suffered a DarkSide ransomware attack that forced them to shut down their fuel pipeline operation. This shutdown led to
Hands on With Norton Antivirus Ethereum Mining: The Good and The Bad Last week, NortonLifelock announced that the Norton 360 antivirus suite would soon be able to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency while the computer is idle. In this article, we go hands-on with the new ‘Norton Crypto’ feature to show what’s good about it and what’s