Hackers believed to be affiliated with an Iranian intelligence agency are using a newly-discovered strain of the DCHSpy malware to snoop on adversaries. Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Lookout detected the latest version of DCHSpy one week after Israel’s June bombing campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear program began. DCHSpy was first detected in 2024, but has since evolved and can now exfiltrate data from WhatsApp and files stored on devices, Lookout said. The malware also collects cont
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SpaceX is inviting some customers to buy a new Starlink Mini receiver for its satellite broadband service offered as a portable option, with an introductory price tag of $599 in the US.
Customer emails sent by the space company this week invited select customers to buy its latest antenna, described as a "compact, portable kit that can easily fit in a backpack, designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet on the go."
Stream 4K movies while out camping out, anyone? Cool, huh? The compan
Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geo-locate devices. Researchers from the University of Maryland say they relied on publicly available data from Apple to track the location of billions of devices globally — including non-Apple devices like Starlink systems and found they could use this data to monitor the destruction of Gaza, as well as the movement
The US Federal Trade Commission recently sent out a blog warning car companies about sharing automobile collected data. Who thought your car would be gathering information about you? Personal data is being collected every second, even in your vehicle.
“Some say a person's car can say a lot about them. As cars get ‘connected,’ this turns out to be truer than many might have realized. While connectivity can let drivers do things like play their favorite internet radio stations or unlock their
The Killnet group and its collaborators are claiming they were able to pull off a trio of symbolic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at punishing some of the most critical supporters of Ukraine against the Russian invasion: Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband service and the websites of the White House in the US and the Prince of Wales in the UK. Researchers at Trustwave were able to find evidence corroborating the Russian-backed threat group's claims.[1]
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Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk said SpaceX’s high-speed Internet service, Starlink, has held out against Russia’s cyberwar tactics amid the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
What Happened - Musk said last week that Starlink has resisted Russia’s “jamming & hacking attempts,” even as the Vladimir Putin-led country is ramping up efforts. Musk linked his comment to a Reuters report that said Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network that took tens of thousands of
Elon Musk announced yesterday that his company SpaceX’s satellite broadband service, Starlink, has been activated in Ukraine, after the Internet was disrupted in the country due to Russia’s invasion. “Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route,” Musk wrote on Twitter in response to Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
“[Elon Musk], while you try to colonize Mars—Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space—Russian rockets atta
