After federal police came to an employee’s house to ask questions, encrypted messaging company Session has decided to leave Australia and switch to a foundation model based in Switzerland.
Austrian security authorities have identified a Swiss man as the suspect in a series of emails containing bomb threats.
Extensive data leak in Switzerland: The Zurich-based asset manager Boreal Capital Management has been attacked by a hacker group, with data from around 700 current and former clients being stolen and published, according to media reports.
people frequently reach out to me with companies to look into. usually it takes me about 10 minutes before i move on for one reason or another—it's not interesting for a story or has good security, for example. i didnt expect anything different when an acquaintance told me about Tracki, a self-proclaimed "world leader in GPS tracking" that they suspected could be used nefariously.
at first glance, Tracki appeared to be a serious company, maybe even one that cared about security. we could never have guessed what was about to unfold before us.
half a year into our investigation, we'd found it all: a hidden conglomerate posing as five independent companies, masked from governments and customers alike through the use of dozens of false identities, US letterbox companies, and an undeclared owner. a 90s phone sex scheme that, through targeting by one of hollywood's most notorious fixers, spiraled into a collection of almost a hundred domains advertising everything from online dating to sore throat remedies. a slew of device-assisted murder cases, on top of potential data breaches affecting almost 12 million users, ranging from federal government officials to literal infants. and most importantly, a little-known Snoop Dogg song. how in the world did we get here?
starting our descent
The stock exchange was forced to halt equity trading for several hours on Wednesday due to persistent technical snags.
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
Several European countries are betting on open-source software. In the United States, eh, not so much. In the latest news from across the Atlantic, Switzerland has taken a major step forward with its "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfillment of Government Tasks" (EMBAG). This groundbreaking legislation mandates using open-source software (OSS) in the public sector.
11.07.2024 - At the end of June 2024, cybercriminals spread the malware "Poseidon Stealer" in German-speaking Switzerland by email, using AGOV as a lure with the aim of infecting computers with the macOS operating system. The NCSC has now produced and published a brief technical analysis of the malware.
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Russia, which hasn’t been invited to the summit, has repeatedly called it “meaningless and harmful.” Swiss officials did not provide more details about the reported cyberattacks.
On 4 April 2024, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has filed an indictment in the Federal Criminal Court against a French-Israeli citizen in connection with a series of cybercrime attacks carried out against Swiss companies. The defendant is accused of taking an active part in numerous cases of social engineering, particularly bogus bank technician scams, contributing decisively to the misappropriation of more than CHF 5 million from the bank accounts of various companies based in Switzerland.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland has released a report on its analysis of a data breach following a ransomware attack on Xplain, disclosing that the incident impacted thousands of sensitive Federal government files.
In the heart of International Geneva, a diverse ecosystem thrives, housing 38 international organizations (IOs), 432 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and several hundred associations active at an international level, all united by a shared mission: to make the world a place of peace and justice. NGOs are the unsung heroes, addressing armed conflicts, natural disasters, and humanitarian crises, championing human rights, and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Like many other organizations, NGOs heavily rely on technology, which is critical for projecting their activities globally in real time. Yet, in today’s digital landscape, this reality brings its own set of challenges.
Last year, I published a 5-part series about Switzerland’s e-voting system. Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security
A social engineering phone call lends authenticity to the attacker’s malicious email
we continue our series on stalkerware with a write-up and batch of data sent to me by a source last night. this time it is the brazilian ownspy (aka webdetective and saferspy, by mobileinnova) that has been completely hacked. among other things ownspy claims to be the #1 most privacy focused "parental control app" allegedly featuring E2E encryption, if this sounds too good to be true that's because it mostly is, but more on that later.
The efforts by governments in Europe and elsewhere to degrade Russia's human intelligence networks could have blowback in other areas, Swiss intelligence is warning.
Our investigation shows how Fink has built a surveillance apparatus that he has put at the disposal of governments and companies around the world – including Israel’s Rayzone Group, a top-tier cyber intelligence company. Fink’s set-up is capable of exploiting loopholes in mobile phone connection protocols to track the location of phone users and even redirect their SMS messages to crack internet accounts.
and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov, the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal group that stole tens of millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses in the United States and Europe, has been arrested in Switzerland, according to multiple sources.
Comme cela était attendu, le Conseil fédéral a adopté les projets d’Ordonnance sur la protection des données (OPDo) et d’Ordonnance sur les certifications en matière de protection des données (OCPD) Plus rien ne s’oppose donc à l’entrée en vigueur de la Loi sur la protection des données révisée (nLPD) le 1er septembre 2023. Le Conseil fédéral a en effet souhaité laisser encore un peu de temps aux petites et moyennes entreprises pour se mettre en conformité.
