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Iranian state-sponsored hackers have built a new tool capable of downloading Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook inboxes, and are using it against unknown high-profile targets. This is according to a new report from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which managed to obtain a version of the tool and perform an analysis to see just how dangerous it is. As per the report, the tool in question is called HYPERSCAPE, and was built back in 2020 by the government-backed group known as Charming Kitten.

An alleged government-backed hacking group from Iran is being accused of using a novel tool to download Gmail, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Outlook inboxes. Google Threat Analysis Group’s Ajax Bash said in a blog on Tuesday that in December, the company found a tool called “Hyperscrape” being used by the hacking group Charming Kitten – which experts believe to be one of Iran’s primary cyber-espionage outfits allegedly operating under the supervision of Iran’s military intelligence… Source link

Google has announced that Gmail’s new layout, which changes how Google Chat, Meet, and Spaces are integrated, will be available to try starting in February; become default by April; and become the only option by the end of Q2 2022. The view makes it so Google’s other messaging tools, which are part of (but not necessarily limited to) its business-focused Workspace suite, are no longer just little windows floating alongside your emails, but get their own screens in Gmail that are… Source link

Russian internet giant Yandex has revealed that thousands of its customers had their accounts accessed due to a malicious insider working at the firm. The Moscow-headquartered multi-national provides search, email, e-commerce and even ride-hailing services, and claims to have tens of millions of unique monthly users. However, on Friday it noted in a brief statement that an employee had been selling access to users’ email accounts for personal gain. “The employee was one of three… Source link

ZDNet, Monday, February 15, 2021 10:53 AM Yandex, a Russian search engine, disclosed that it had caught an employee selling access to user email accounts. The company is now notifying the owners of the 4,887 compromised mailboxes.    Read the whole story at ZDNet » Source link

Web search engine Yandex is one of the most popular sites in Russia, having indexed several important Russian websites as well as allowing access to services for free, just like its American competitor, Google. The search engine, which also provides a free webmail service, recently caught an employee selling access to user email accounts, according to reports. The search engine has now begun informing each of the users who were affected by the employee’s actions – around 4,887 users’… Source link

Russian Dutch-domiciled search engine, ride-hailing and email service provider Yandex on Friday disclosed a data breach that compromised 4,887 email accounts of its users. The company blamed the incident on an unnamed employee who had been providing unauthorized access to the users’ mailboxes for personal gain. “The employee was one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to provide technical support for the service,” Yandex said in a statement. The company said the… Source link

Russian search engine and email provider Yandex said today that it caught one of its employees selling access to user email accounts for personal gains. The company, which did not disclose the employee’s name, said the person was “one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to provide technical support” for its Yandex.Mail service. The Russian company said it’s now in the process of notifying the owners of the 4,887… Source link