Tag Archives: Cybersecurity

New research by the cybersecurity reporters at 404 Media has uncovered a new tool named OnlyFakes that reliably generates fake IDs capable of bypassing KYC providers’ checks with relative ease. The fake documents can be generated with or without a background, which would suggest it is a picture that was just taken by a user going through an ID verification process. Allegedly, several hundred fake documents can be produced at once using Excel batches. OnlyFakes Claims to Be...

A blockchain developer, Murat Çeliktepe, has shared a distressing incident recounting a holiday experience that resulted in the loss of $500 from his MetaMask Wallet to an individual posing as a ‘recruiter.’ Notably, Çeliktepe was initially contacted on LinkedIn under the pretense of a genuine web development job opportunity. Developer Falls Prey to Coding Job Scam During the purported job interview, the recruiter instructed Çeliktepe to download and debug the code from two...

Das Finanzwesen der Zukunft: Server statt Platz In einer Welt, die zunehmend von Digitalisierung und technologischer Innovation geprägt ist, steht das Finanzwesen an der Schwelle zu einer radikalen Veränderung. Die Zukunft des Finanzwesens wird nicht mehr durch physische Standorte wie Bankfilialen oder Börsensäle definiert, sondern durch leistungsstarke Server und fortschrittliche IT-Infrastrukturen. Diese Entwicklung ist das Ergebnis einer Reihe...

Earlier this week, a BreachForums user by the name of Miembro announced the sale of access to a Binance data request portal, built and maintained to accommodate police officers and government officials worldwide in their attempts to track down cybercriminals. The sale has since been paused, owing to a blunder involving a crypto mixer being used by a buyer to send funds to the seller turned out to be an invalid address. Access to De-Anonymized Data However, the sale will...

Event-Tipp Wie wir die Cybersicherheit der Schweizer Infrastruktur nicht dem Zufall überlassen. ​Erfahren Sie, wie wir die Cybersicherheit der Schweizer Infrastruktur nicht dem Zufall überlassen. ​Begleiten Sie uns am Montag, dem 21. August 2023 bei einem Austausch zum Thema Cybersicherheit mit Fachleuten vom Bund und aus der Industrie. ​Ihr Gastgeber, das Nationale Testinstitut für Cybersicherheit NTC testet, was sonst nicht getestet wird. Es...

2021 war bezüglich Cybersicherheit ein sehr bewegtes und bewegendes Jahr. Welche Lehren lassen sich daraus ziehen? Welche Bedrohungen könnten im 2022 entstehen? Wie jedes Jahr wagt Stormshield einige Prognosen. Trend 1: Mangel an Fachkräften auch unter Cyberkriminellen? Signale aus 2021 Wenn sich 2021 in Bezug auf Cybersicherheit zu einem Trend zusammenfassen ließe, wäre es die Strukturierung der Cyberkriminellen. Parallel zur Explosion der Sicherheitsvorfälle und der erwirtschafteten Umsätze...

Swiss Cyber Security Days Zusammenarbeit mit dem WEF Center for Cybersecurity (c4c) und renommierte Referenten an der Ausgabe 2020 American Edward Snowden, the world’s most famous whistleblower, will be the special guest speaker at Swiss Cyber Security Days (which take place on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 March 2021). The former CIA and NSA contractor who, in the summer of 2013, exposed the scale of US and UK intelligence agencies’...

Within the partnership, Android Opera users get the ability to purchase Bitcoin and Ethereum with a debit card, while iOS users can check the function in Apple Pay.Late January this year, Opera completed its efforts to provide Web 3-ready browsers with built-in Crypto Wallet on Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS. Now Opera users receive new options to buy cryptos. They can now do it using a debit card or Apple Pay. The initiative follows Opera’s partnership with crypto startup Wyre....

It is somewhat strange that the famous postal secrecy law doesn’t work online. If you use a third-party e-mail provider, anybody can gain access to your data and secrets and sell them.Google wasn’t charging the lazy investigators in the past. The legal fee that Google is taking for giving the users’ e-mails and phone talks is rising only in 2020. Specifically, the NYT reporters got their hand on the document by Google saying they need to ”offset the cost” of compiling the information for the...

Recently, Telegram founder Pavel Durov made quite a bold statement. On his Telegram channel, he argued that Apple‘s iCloud is now ‘officially a surveillance tool’. Further, Durov cited a Reuters report and stated that apps relying on it to store users’ private messages (such as WhatsApp) are part of the problem.But let us see how the whole story began.Apple’s iCloud Will Not Encrypt BackupsAbout two years ago, Apple was considering end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups. After doing that,...