By , , (This June 9 story corrects to remove reference to speaking with Gupta at his office)LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the United States including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters, according to three former employees, outside researchers, and a trail of online evidence.Aspects of...…By , , (This June 9 story corrects to remove reference to speaking with Gupta at his office)LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the United States including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters, according to three former employees, outside researchers, and a trail of online evidence.Aspects of...WW…

By , , Twitter said employees with access to its internal systems had been successfully targeted by hackers who “used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf.”“We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it,” the company said.Twitter temporarily took the extraordinary step of preventing for several hours at least some verified accounts from publishing messages altogether. It said it would restore access only when it was...…By , , Twitter said employees with access to its internal systems had been successfully targeted by hackers who “used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf.”“We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it,” the company said.Twitter temporarily took the extraordinary step of preventing for several hours at least some verified accounts from publishing messages altogether. It said it would restore access only when it was...WW…

By , , Twitter said employees with access to its internal systems had been successfully targeted by hackers who “used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf.”“We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it,” the company said.Twitter temporarily took the extraordinary step of preventing for several hours at least some verified accounts from publishing messages altogether. It said it would restore access only when it was...…By , , Twitter said employees with access to its internal systems had been successfully targeted by hackers who “used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf.”“We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it,” the company said.Twitter temporarily took the extraordinary step of preventing for several hours at least some verified accounts from publishing messages altogether. It said it would restore access only when it was...WW…

By WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government officials warned on Wednesday about the threat of North Korean hackers, calling particular attention to banking and other financial services.The reason for the advisory, which was jointly issued by the U.S. Departments of State, Treasury and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was unclear. North Korean hackers have long been accused of targeting financial institutions, and the content of the warning appeared to draw on material already in the public domain.The State Department said in an email that the advisory “collates...…By WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government officials warned on Wednesday about the threat of North Korean hackers, calling particular attention to banking and other financial services.The reason for the advisory, which was jointly issued by the U.S. Departments of State, Treasury and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was unclear. North Korean hackers have long been accused of targeting financial institutions, and the content of the warning appeared to draw on material already in the public domain.The State Department said in an email that the advisory “collates...WW…

By , PARIS (Reuters) - A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to internet monitors.Slideshow The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centres in Strasbourg, in eastern France, and damaged another, the company said.There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial...…By , PARIS (Reuters) - A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to internet monitors.Slideshow The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centres in Strasbourg, in eastern France, and damaged another, the company said.There was no immediate explanation provided for the blaze, which erupted just two days after the French cloud computing firm kicked off plans for an initial...WW…

By , , SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others, two former employees said, making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week.Twitter Inc and the FBI are investigating the breach that allowed hackers to repeatedly tweet from verified accounts of the likes of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and former New York Mayor Mike...…By , , SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others, two former employees said, making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week.Twitter Inc and the FBI are investigating the breach that allowed hackers to repeatedly tweet from verified accounts of the likes of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and former New York Mayor Mike...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/north-america-lawsuits-ap-top-news-london-spyware-9bdbbfe0c8a2407aac14a1e995659de4Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/north-america-lawsuits-ap-top-news-london-spyware-9bdbbfe0c8a2407aac14a1e995659de4Click to copyRelated topicsLONDON (AP) — When mysterious operatives lured two cybersecurity researchers to meetings at luxury hotels over the past two months, it was an apparent bid to discredit their research about an Israeli company that makes smartphone hacking technology used by some governments to spy on their citizens. The Associated Press has now...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/north-america-lawsuits-ap-top-news-london-spyware-9bdbbfe0c8a2407aac14a1e995659de4Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/north-america-lawsuits-ap-top-news-london-spyware-9bdbbfe0c8a2407aac14a1e995659de4Click to copyRelated topicsLONDON (AP) — When mysterious operatives lured two cybersecurity researchers to meetings at luxury hotels over the past two months, it was an apparent bid to discredit their research about an Israeli company that makes smartphone hacking technology used by some governments to spy on their citizens. The Associated Press has now...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/hacking-north-america-lawsuits-smartphones-ap-top-news-a1d1af4256c04cc5a36347667e966a14Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/hacking-north-america-lawsuits-smartphones-ap-top-news-a1d1af4256c04cc5a36347667e966a14Click to copyRelated topicsLONDON (AP) — When mysterious operatives lured two cybersecurity researchers to meetings at luxury hotels over the past two months, it was an apparent bid to discredit their research about an Israeli company that makes smartphone hacking technology used by some governments to spy on their citizens. The Associated Press...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/hacking-north-america-lawsuits-smartphones-ap-top-news-a1d1af4256c04cc5a36347667e966a14Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/hacking-north-america-lawsuits-smartphones-ap-top-news-a1d1af4256c04cc5a36347667e966a14Click to copyRelated topicsLONDON (AP) — When mysterious operatives lured two cybersecurity researchers to meetings at luxury hotels over the past two months, it was an apparent bid to discredit their research about an Israeli company that makes smartphone hacking technology used by some governments to spy on their citizens. The Associated Press...WW…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comWASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - Facebook says it has disrupted a long-running cyberespionage campaign run by Palestinian intelligence which features spies posing as journalists and the deployment of a booby-trapped app for submitting human rights stories.In a report published Wednesday, Facebook accused what it said was the cyber wing of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PSS), which is loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas, of running rudimentary hacking operations that targeted Palestinian reporters, activists, and dissidents, as...…Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comWASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - Facebook says it has disrupted a long-running cyberespionage campaign run by Palestinian intelligence which features spies posing as journalists and the deployment of a booby-trapped app for submitting human rights stories.In a report published Wednesday, Facebook accused what it said was the cyber wing of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PSS), which is loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas, of running rudimentary hacking operations that targeted Palestinian reporters, activists, and dissidents, as...WW…

By , , (This June 9 story corrects to remove reference to speaking with Gupta at his office)LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the United States including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters, according to three former employees, outside researchers, and a trail of online evidence.Aspects of...…By , , (This June 9 story corrects to remove reference to speaking with Gupta at his office)LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the United States including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters, according to three former employees, outside researchers, and a trail of online evidence.Aspects of...WW…