Built on the Beldex Network, BChat aims to solve the weaknesses of relying solely on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for private ...

Blue and green bubbles aside, texting your Android friends has never been safer. Discover the "lock" icon that just changed ...

Socket found seven malicious packages on PyPI The packages were abusing Gmail and WebSocket They were removed from the platform Several malicious PyPI packages were recently observed abusing Gmail to ...

Posing as Signal's support team, scammers are asking users for their recovery keys—a ploy to download and decipher encrypted ...

A token leaks. A bad package slips in. A login trick works. An old tool shows up again. At first, it feels like the usual mess. Then you see the pattern: attackers are not always breaking in. They are ...

A new report out today from cybersecurity company Forcepoint LLC’s X-Labs research team details a supply chain attack that ...

The digital rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has slammed Meta for ending its opt-in encrypted chats on Instagram. The tech giant said that it was killing the feature because ...

iOS 26.5 will encrypt RCS text messages between iOS and Android. The encryption supports the iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. The update brings new Pride wallpaper to iPhone and Apple Watch. iPhone owners ...

Instagram is removing end-to-end encryption from direct messages on May 8, giving Meta the ability to read private chats it previously could not access. Users who previously enabled the encryption ...

Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, Meta will potentially be able to see the contents of all messages between ...

Ransomware attacks have grown in complexity and frequency over the past decade, but as horrible as an attack can be, malicious actors often honor the ransom and decrypt files after receiving payment.

What we know so far: Earlier this year, a federal probe into whether Meta's WhatsApp service can access encrypted messages was abruptly shut down, according to two people familiar with the matter. The ...