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DDoS attacks against X
6 April 2025
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Messenger X (formerly Twitter) suffered multiple outages due to DDoS attacks, affecting many users worldwide. Elon Musk himself attributed this to a "massive cyberattack" and suspected the involvement of a large, coordinated group. Meanwhile, Check Point Research (CPR) found that the hacker gang Dark Storm Team, a pro-Palestinian cyberattack group specializing in DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, is back in action after a period of inactivity. Their primary targets are Western entities, including organizations in the US, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Israel. In recent…

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Telegram: 361 million user data leaked
July 15, 2024
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Cyber ​​criminals have published millions of email addresses as well as usernames and passwords for online accounts in channels of the messenger service Telegram, according to the operator of the site "Have-I-been-pwnd". According to a recent blog post by Troy Hunt, unknown persons have published over 122 gigabytes of data in channels of the messenger app Telegram. Troy Hunt is the operator of Have-I-been-pwned, a database for leaked access data. This includes: 361 million email addresses, almost half of which have apparently never appeared in such a data leak before. Usernames and passwords for online accounts were also part of the leak....

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Cyber ​​criminals phish for data via messenger apps
August 4, 2021
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Due to their popularity, messenger apps such as WhatsApp continue to be a popular tool for phishing scammers, according to a recent analysis by Kaspersky. According to this, 2020 malicious links in connection with messengers were blocked worldwide between December 2021 and May 94.559. That corresponds to more than 500 incidents per day. 89,6 percent of this was on WhatsApp, 5,6 percent on Telegram, 4,7 percent on Viper and less than 0,1 percent on Hangouts. In Germany, 96 percent of phishing attempts took place via WhatsApp. Dangerous links via WhatsApp Messenger apps such as WhatsApp or Telegram are popular and will ...

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GDPR compliant messenger
August 17, 2020
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According to the manufacturer, the GDPR-compliant stashcat messenger is currently used by companies, in authorities and schools, in the healthcare sector, by the police and the armed forces - wherever confidential data is involved. In total, the messenger is used by around 800.000 users - the spectrum ranges from schoolchildren, parents, teachers and doctors to authorities with the police and the armed forces. Matching articles on the topic

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