https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/enc...5cf8&ei=11    Encrypted phone service 'Encrochat' shutdown leads to 6,500 arrests - Europol
Story by Reuters • 7h ago
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European policing agency Europol said on Tuesday that the takedown of Encrochat, an underground company that offered criminals supposedly secure encrypted communications, led to more than 6,500 arrests and 900 million euros ($980 million) in seized assets.    The system had an estimated 60,000 users when it shut down abruptly in June 2020, and Europol revealed the following month that law enforcement officials had been intercepting users' communications for months.

In a statement on Tuesday, Europol offered its first overview of the results of the takedown, which it said had "sent shockwaves across organised crime groups in Europe and beyond".

Police have analysed more than 115 million "criminal conversations", Europol said, helping prevent "violent attacks, attempted murders, corruption and large scale drugs transports."

The agency said investigations spawned by the takedown have so far led to the seizure of 100 tonnes of cocaine, 30 million pills of "chemical drugs", nearly a thousand vehicles, hundreds of properties and dozens of boats and planes.

The police statement gave no details on whether the owners of Encrochat themselves had been arrested.

French and Dutch authorities were due to hold a press conference in Lille later on Tuesday.

Partial results of Encrochat-linked investigations have previously been announced by French, Dutch, and British police in 2020 and by German police in 2021.

Encrochat sold modified Android mobile devices for around 1,000 euros each and charged users hefty subscription fees with the promise their communications would remain encrypted and secret.

It shut down abruptly in June 2020 after its unidentified operators apparently realized they had been compromised.

Europol said the company had routed encrypted communications through servers in France.

"Eventually, it was possible to place a technical device to go beyond the encryption technique and obtain access to users’ correspondence," Europol said on Tuesday.

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(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Christina Fincher)

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June 20, 2023 03:46 PM      VMware updated a security advisory published two weeks ago to warn customers that a now-patched critical vulnerability allowing remote code execution is being actively exploited in attacks.

"VMware has confirmed that exploitation of CVE-2023-20887 has occurred in the wild," the company said today.

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https://www.securityweek.com/norton-pare...re-attack/      Norton Parent Says Employee Data Stolen in MOVEit Ransomware Attack
Gen Digital, which owns Avast, Avira, AVG, Norton, and LifeLock, said employee data was compromised in the MOVEit ransomware attack.
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The attack exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer (MFT) software that Progress Software disclosed on May 31.

Mass exploitation of the bug, which is tracked as CVE-2023-34362 and described as a critical-severity SQL injection, started in late May, but evidence suggests that the attackers knew about the flaw or tested it since 2021.

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“We use MOVEit for file transfers and have remediated all of the known vulnerabilities in the system. When we learned of this matter, we acted immediately to protect our environment and investigate the potential impact. We have confirmed that there was no impact to our core IT systems and our services and that no customer or partner data has been exposed. Unfortunately, some personal information of Gen employees and contingent workers was impacted which included information like name, company email address, employee ID number, and in some limited cases home address and date of birth. We immediately investigated the scope of the issue and have notified the relevant data protection regulators and our employees whose data may have been impacted.”

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