As reported by Bleeping Computer, Google is testing a new experimental flag that can hide sensitive content while “screen sharing, screen recording and similar actions” in regular tabs — redacting the user’s entire screen if things like credit card details or passwords are detected.
There’s no mention of a release date, but it should be available for testing in Chrome Canary in the coming weeks.
Specifically, about $60 million — a hefty civil penalty to settle allegations that the telecom giant failed to report incidents of unauthorized access to sensitive data, violating a national security agreement it made to acquire Sprint in 2020.
It’s the largest fine ever imposed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, and just one of many data breaches T-Mobile has faced in recent years.
Citizen Lab and Access Now linked a “sophisticated spear phishing campaign” to a group associated with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). The campaign has allegedly targeted exiled opposition figures as well as non-governmental organization staff in the US and Europe. Threat actors would allegedly email their targets, pretending to be a colleague or funder, the groups say.
Trump adviser Roger Stone told The Washington Post that “a couple” of his personal email accounts had been compromised.
As for phishing emails sent to three Biden-Harris campaign staffers, the publication reports that “investigators have not found evidence that those hacking attempts were successful.”
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Just weeks after the NYT profiled Blake Benthall about his Silk Road 2.0 role and post-prison endeavors, 404 Media has identified a co-founder, Thomas White, as its “Dread Pirate Roberts 2.0.”
Between his 2014 arrest and receiving a five-year prison sentence in 2019, White apparently launched DDoSecrets with Emma Best, which was eventually tagged a “criminal hacker group” after publishing the “BlueLeaks.”
The vulnerability deals with how browsers deal with queries to the IP address 0.0.0.0, as reported by Forbes and the security startup Oligo. Apple tells Forbes that it is making changes to the macOS Sequoia beta to fix the issue, while Google has plans to fix it in Chrome.
