A new tax-themed malware campaign targeting insurance and finance sectors has been observed leveraging GitHub links in phishing email messages as a way to bypass security measures and deliver Remcos RAT, indicating that the method is gaining traction among threat actors. “In this campaign, legitimate repositories such as the open-source tax filing software, UsTaxes, HMRC, … Read more
The government of Ukraine imposed a ban on the Telegram messaging app being used on official devices belonging to government officials, military staff, and critical infrastructure workers, citing security fears. In an announcement on Friday, Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council (Rnbo) claimed that Telegram posed a security threat to the nation, particularly during the … Read more
“SimpleX, at its core, is designed to be truly distributed with no central server. This allows for enormous scalability at low cost, and also makes it virtually impossible to snoop on the network graph,” Poberezkin wrote in a company blog post published in 2022. SimpleX’s policies expressly prohibit “sending illegal communications” and outline how SimpleX … Read more
Enlarge / Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram, speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 on September 21, 2015, in San Francisco. Getty Photos | tSteve Jennings Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was indicted in France immediately and ordered to submit bail of 5 million euros. The multi-billionaire was forbidden from leaving the nation and should … Read more
Pavel Durov, Telegram founder and former CEO of Vkontakte, in happier (and youthful) days. Late this afternoon at a Parisian airport, French authorities detained Pavel Durov, the founding father of the Telegram messaging/publication service. They’re allegedly planning to hit him tomorrow with critical expenses associated to abetting terrorism, fraud, cash laundering, and crimes towards kids, … Read more
