Catherine Stupp

Cybersecurity Reporter @WSJ Pro [email protected]

[Ryan Gallagher @rj_gallagher]

US-Canadian tech company Sandvine developed controversial spy tool to help governments track encrypted Signal & WhatsApp messages. Recently quietly scrapped effort to sell to US agencies DEA & FBI after layoffs. Pitched product to govts across Europe, Middle East, Asia: https://t.co/01mXSZQeWn

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

"Denmark isn’t alone in turning to algorithms amid political pressure to crack down on welfare fraud. France adopted the technology in 2010, the Netherlands in 2013, Ireland in 2016, Spain in 2018, Poland in 2021, and Italy in 2022."

[Gabriel Geiger @gabriels_geiger]

Last fall, I traveled to Denmark’s welfare agency for @LHreports, a sprawling, fortress-like building on the outskirts of Copenhagen. I was there to understand how one of Europe’s quintessential welfare states had transformed into a surveillance behemoth https://t.co/qDJYcPmMR6

[Public Books @PublicBooks]

“It would be so convenient to just use a real credit card, my real name, a working email address, or just get an iPhone like everyone else.

That’s just what Disney wants.”

We return from our annual winter hiatus with a great new piece from @cyberlyra:
https://t.co/ISD7WXaV4u

[Kim Zetter @KimZetter]

Canadian accountant Karlee Besse was fired for being unproductive. Now, a civil tribunal has ruled that Besse owes her former company $2,756 after the spy software the company installed on her laptop revealed she misrepresented over 50 hours at work. https://t.co/EhiJBKRkQ1

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

@Stluce1St @commonspirit Hi Amy, do you have a few minutes to talk about this? I'm a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. You can email me at [email protected]

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

German authorities issued an arrest warrant last year for a hacker from the Berserk Bear group who they say spied on an electricity provider. US DOJ says the group has ties to the FSB.

[Florian Flade @FlorianFlade]

Deutschen Behörden ist ein seltener Ermittlungserfolg gelungen: Sie haben einen Hacker identifiziert, der einen deutschen Stromversorger ausspioniert haben soll. Er soll zur Gruppe #BerserkBear gehören, die dem #FSB zugerechnet wird. Recherche mit @hatr https://t.co/vA0uG3IcYf

[Sean Lyngaas @snlyngaas]

An #Austria-based firm that hawks “highly sophisticated Red Teams to challenge your company’s most critical assets” is really developing exploits that have been used against law firms, banks & “strategic consultancies” in Europe and Panama, per MSFT https://t.co/FRsf81mdF8

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: an unnamed country helped the FBI intercept messages around the world as part of Anom, an encrypted phone company the FBI secretly ran. FBI has refused to say which country. A U.S authored document we obtained said the country is in the European Union https://t.co/elxn5xKwye

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

@WSJPodcasts @thecourier thanks @thecourier!

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

French data protection authority says Google Analytics' data transfers to the US are illegal. Comes after Austria's regulator said the same thing.

[CNIL @CNIL]

#RGPD Saisie par @NOYBeu, la CNIL, en coopération avec ses homologues européens, a analysé les conditions dans lesquelles les #données collectées par Google Analytics sont transférées vers les États-Unis et estime que ces transferts sont illégaux 👉 https://t.co/4YWv9snEpY

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

New consumer protection investigation into WhatsApp comes on top of the €225 million Irish privacy fine that WhatsApp is appealing

[EU Consumer Affairs @EU_Consumer]

💬Remember when @WhatsApp made changes to its terms of service & privacy policy last year?

🤔Did you feel like you had clear enough info about the changes before you accepted them?

@EU_Commission & #ConsumerProtection authorities are investigating. ➡️https://t.co/4VnKiwQPix

[Jeroen Terstegge 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @PrivaSense]

🔥🔥 BREAKING:
Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) warns: “Use of Google Analytics will soon likely not be allowed”.

After Austria came to the same conclusion recently, the AP will finalize its own complaint-based investigations first. #privacy #GDPR

https://t.co/Wl45ZLtlPT

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

Ireland's public healthcare service @HSELive published PwC report into May ransomware attack. Attack happened after employee opened a malicious Excel spreadsheet. Says HSE relied on antivirus that was set to monitor mode & didn't block ransomware https://t.co/Dqbxa453cY

[Michael Leibel @leibel]

The cream cheese shortage wreaking havoc on bagel shops is, in part, due to a cyberattack on the biggest U.S. cheese manufacturer https://t.co/XRntgVui8e

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

Dad of Russian hacker Yakubets said his family lives in fear after his son's 2019 DOJ indictment & a $5 mill bounty for him.

[Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy]

Evil Corp: 'My hunt for the world's most wanted hackers'. Many people on the FBI's Cyber Most Wanted list are Russian. If they left Russia they'd be arrested but at home they appear to be given free rein. Me and ⁦@skazal_on⁩ went to try to find them https://t.co/EQcdHlzEdh

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

German police have arrest warrant for a REvil member who's based in Russia and wears a luxury watch with a Bitcoin logo on it. He vacationed in Turkey, which has extradition agreement w/ Germany, but wasn't arrested there.

[Sadie Gurman @sgurman]

One more impact of the pandemic: a boom in illegal drug sales on the darknet, says Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in announcing 150 arrests in coordination with law-enforcement agencies in eight other countries. W/ ⁦@catstupp⁩ https://t.co/y7Sp49iL1r

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

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[kpoulsen @kpoulsen]

In the hours before Nicko Silar was born, a heart monitor recorded warning signs that she was in distress. Because of a ransomware attack, almost nobody saw them.

Inside the attack on an Alabama hospital that may have claimed ransomware's first fatality

https://t.co/iKWJdPxMdX

[Catherine Stupp @catstupp]

@ElvanderJonas timeless name