The spread of illegal surveillance cameras placed in cities all over Albania is causing concern about the vulnerability of personal data and about the strength of the criminal groups that allegedly put them up. Experts warn of a concerning situation for personal data that might have been gathered, and about the criminal groups’ strength. “It…
Billionaire Gautam Adani’s sprawling business empire has lost a stunning $68 billion in market value through Monday — despite a 413-page attempted rebuttal to a short seller’s fraud allegations that blasted them as an “attack on India.” Most of the Adani Group’s publicly traded stocks have plummeted in value in three days of trading since…
India-based conglomerate Adani Group is prepping for a potential legal war with Hindenburg Research after the influential short-seller accused company founder Gautam Adani of overseeing “the largest con in corporate history.” Adani’s top legal officer Jatin Jalundhwala said Hindenburg’s “maliciously mischievous, unresearched report” had “adversely affected” the company’s shareholders and caused “unwanted anguish for Indian…
Gautam Adani, the world’s third-richest man, is pulling “the largest con in corporate history” through his India-based conglomerate Adani Group, according to scathing allegations published this week by influential short seller Hindenburg Research. Hindenburg — whose previous targets have included electric-truck makers Nikola and Lordstown Motors — revealed in a research note late Tuesday it…
Greek media said Wednesday that a female suspect linked to a spyware scandal has been arrested. The suspect’s identity has not been made public but reports pointed to an employee and shareholder of Intellexa, a company that sells tracking software. Police from the cybercrime unit raided the home of the suspect and confiscated computers, hard…
Depending on which source you believe, there are between 20 and 30 billionaires worldwide who have made their money primarily in cryptocurrency trading. Last fall, in less than 30 days, four of that elite number died under unusual circumstances. Given that all four were relatively young and in good health, the actuarial odds against this…
For at least eight years, the New York State Police have bought an array of programs that sift through mass quantities of social media information — including from companies with access to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram’s internal data — contracts obtained by New York Focus show. The documents shed new light on the state police’s…
Tel Aviv-based newspaper Haaretz has revealed how Toka, a company founded by the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and the Israeli military’s cyber chief Yaron Rosen, has mastered terrifying technology capable of locating security cameras or webcams, hacking into them, monitoring their live feeds, and altering them without a trace. Regulated by the Israeli…
Facebook’s parent company Meta is suing to ban Israeli surveillance company Voyager Labs from using Facebook and Instagram, alleging that the firm scraped the data of 600,000 users without their knowledge via tens of thousands of fake accounts, according to a report in The Guardian. The lawsuit states that Facebook deleted 38,000 fake profiles set…
Israeli company Cognyte, which is traded on the Nasdaq, won a tender by a Myanmar state-owned company to provide an advanced cyber-intelligence system to be installed at the heart of the country’s telecommunications network – in order to monitor and eavesdrop on users, documents obtained by the NGO Justice For Myanmar reveal. Although the U.S.…