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Some Americans are still using Kaspersky’s antivirus despite U.S. government ban

Not everyone in the U.S. has given up on the Russian-made antivirus. Some Americans have found ways to get around the ba...
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Hackers targeted Android users by exploiting zero-day bug in Qualcomm chips

EXC: Security researchers at Google and Amnesty International discovered hackers exploiting the bug in an active hacking...
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Kasperksy says it’s closing down its UK office and laying off dozens

Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky is shutting down its office in the United Kingdom and laying off its staff, just t...
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Apple fixes bugs in macOS Sequoia that broke some cybersecurity tools

Apple said the new macOS release "improves compatibility with third-party security software," after the first operating ...
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How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death

Jesse Kipf was a prolific hacker who sold access to systems he hacked, had contacts with a notorious cybercrime gang, an...
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US government charges three Iranian hackers with Trump campaign hack

Three Iranian hackers working for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted the Trump campaign in an attempt...
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Iranian hackers charged with hacking Trump campaign to ‘stoke discord’

Three Iranian hackers working for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted the Trump campaign in an attempt...
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Kaspersky defends force-replacing its security software without users’ explicit consent

That lack of user interaction — or request for consent — is what confused and concerned some former Kaspersky customers....
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Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software

After U.S. ban, Kaspersky's American customers were automatically migrated to UltraAV antivirus, in some cases without t...
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The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary

This glossary includes some of the most common terms and expressions we use in our articles, and explanations of how — a...
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Internet surveillance firm Sandvine says it’s leaving 56 ‘non-democratic’ countries

Sandvine sold its internet surveillance products to authoritarian regimes, including Belarus, Egypt, Eritrea, the United...
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U.S. government ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers, says FBI director

The FBI, NSA and other U.S. government agencies detailed a Chinese-government operation that used 260,000 of internet-co...
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Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats

Discord will now offer audio and video calls that even the company won't be able to listen in on. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
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Fortinet confirms customer data breach

On Thursday, cybersecurity giant Fortinet disclosed a breach involving customer data.  In a statement posted online...
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Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs

An explosives expert told TechCrunch that the ChatGPT output could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sen...
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Bug lets anyone bypass WhatsApp’s ‘View Once’ privacy feature

A flaw in the design of WhatsApp's "View Once" privacy feature let's anyone save pictures and videos that should be ephe...
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US charges five Russian military hackers with targeting Ukraine’s government with destructive malware

The U.S. government indictment demonstrated deep knowledge of the Russian spies' activities, including their real-world ...
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X is hiring staff for security and safety after two years of layoffs

The hiring effort comes after X, formerly known as Twitter, laid off 80% of its trust and safety staff since Musk's take...
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North Korean hackers exploited Chrome zero-day to steal crypto

The North Korean hackers’ attack started by tricking a victim into visiting a web domain under the hackers' control. © 2...
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Chinese government hackers targeted U.S. internet providers with zero-day exploit, researchers say

A group of hackers linked to the Chinese government used a previously unknown vulnerability in software to target U.S. i...
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Ecovacs says it will fix bugs that can be abused to spy on robot owners

After saying users "do not need to worry excessively" about a series of security flaws, Ecovacs said it will — in fact —...
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Typing these four characters could crash your iPhone

A bug in the iPhone makes it crash just by typing four characters. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal ...
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Cisco employees face a month of silence ahead of second layoff in 2024

After tech giant Cisco announced plans for its second round of layoffs this year, employees tell TechCrunch that they wi...
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US government accuses Iran of Trump campaign hack; Iran scoffs

On Monday, the U.S. government formally accused Iran of hacking the Donald Trump campaign. In a joint statement issued b...
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Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

Faced with a new hack-and-leak operation targeting the Trump presidential campaign, journalists and media outlets are ta...
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Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

Faced with a new hack-and-leak operation targeting the Trump presidential campaign, journalists and media outlets are ta...
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After global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike courts hackers with action figures and gratitude

CrowdStrike tried to go back to business as usual at one of the world's largest annual cybersecurity conferences, weeks ...
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Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say

Researchers found flaws that could allow anyone to spy on the owners of Ecovacs home robots by hijacking their cameras a...
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How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang

Jon DiMaggio used sockpuppet accounts, then his own identity, to infiltrate LockBit and gain the trust of its alleged ad...
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Hackers could spy on cellphone users by abusing 5G baseband flaws, researchers say

Security researchers found a dozen vulnerabilities in 5G baseband chips found in phones made by Google, OPPO, OnePlus, M...
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