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Downing cup after cup of coffee might keep the body energized and alert, but it could be having a dangerous effect on the brain. Drinking more than six cups of coffee a day was associated with a 53% increased risk of dementia and a…

A private equity company that owns the NSO Group, the Israeli firm at the center of the Pegasus spyware scandal, is being liquidated, a source shared. London-based Novalpina Capital, which bought the NSO Group in 2019, is being dissolved…

Iranian hackers spent 18 months masquerading as an aerobics instructor in a cyber-espionage campaign designed to infect employees and contractors working in defence and aerospace with malware in order to steal usernames, passwords and other…

Zero day, You might be forgiven for thinking that July 2021 was Microsoft’s month for cybersecurity vulnerabilities. First there was PrintNightmare in several guises, followed by HiveNightmare (an entirely unrelated bug that nevertheless…

AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP of journalists this month detailed extensive new evidence that NSO spyware made by Israeli company NSO Group was used against activists, business executives, journalists, and lawyers around the world. Even Apple’s…

Windows internet-facing servers are being targeted by a new threat actor operating "almost completely in-memory," according to a new report from the Sygnia Incident Response team. The report said that the advanced and persistent threat…

Democracy depends on an equality of arms. If governments acquire political weapons unavailable to their opponents, they become harder to dislodge. They now possess so many that I begin to wonder how an efficient autocracy, once established,…

Israel’s defence minister will share on Wednesday the initial findings from a government assessment of NSO Group exports with France, whose president was allegedly among targets of spyware sold by the private Israeli spyware company.…

Malware authors are increasingly using Exotic rarely spotted programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang in order to create new tools and to hinder analysis, researchers have found. Use of those four languages is escalating in…

Veteran journalists N Ram and Sashi Kumar have moved the Supreme Court seeking an independent probe by its sitting or retired judge into the reports of alleged snooping by government agencies on eminent citizens, politicians and scribes by…