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A Maryland man was found guilty of stealing more than $53 million after hacking the decentralized crypto exchange Uranium Finance twice in April 2021. [...]

Microsoft will soon introduce support for third-party deepfake detection solutions and impersonation protection in Teams meetings. [...]

ASOS is sending updates to affected customers about the cybersecurity incident it suffered earlier this week, confirming that hackers accessed some personal data. [...]

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Britain and Germany have announced a partnership to counter cyberattacks and sabotage, particularly from Russia, as Prime Minister Andy Burnham heads to Berlin for talks. Under the arrangement announced Thursday, the countries will share information and coordinate efforts to monitor, deter, and disrupt hostile activity, including threats to critical infrastructure. The announcement comes ahead of Burnham's first face-to-face meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, where security won't be the only item on the agenda. The PM is also expected to raise Britain's relationship with the EU, including the possibility of rejoining the bloc. Burnham has floated several options for undoing parts of Brexit, from rejoining the customs union or single market to returning to the EU outright. According to the Financial Times, he wants Germany's backing for closer economic ties before a UK-EU summit on November 20. On the security front, both governments worry about Russia's appetite for cyberattacks, sabotage, and other operations that fall short of outright military confrontation. "Attacks on our infrastructure, our businesses and our democracies are not a distant threat," Burnham said ahead of the meeting. "They reach into people's homes and workplaces, and they are designed to make us weaker and more divided." He added: "Britain and Germany are joining forces to find, expose and disrupt this activity." The partnership builds on the Kensington Treaty, signed in July 2025 and ratified on Thursday, which already committed the two countries to working more closely on defense, cybersecurity, technology, and economic security. The announcement offers little operational detail. It names no agencies, specifies no additional funding, and does not explain how the countries will disrupt hostile operations. The deal lands amid increasingly stark warnings from European intelligence agencies about Moscow's activities. Germany's foreign intelligence chief, Martin Jaeger, warned this week that the confrontation with Russia had entered a more dangerous phase, while German authorities have blamed Moscow for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport in August. Britain has been dusting off its own tools for dealing with hostile states. The government has fast-tracked legislation giving the Home Secretary new powers to designate state-backed organizations and proxy groups, while Burnham has asked security chiefs to establish a National Centre for Information Defence to tackle foreign disinformation campaigns. ®

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Phishing kits are no longer limited to copying a familiar login page and waiting for a victim to enter credentials. Attackers are increasingly building filtering, session management, and traffic controls into the infrastructure that delivers the phishing page itself. ANY.RUN has identified Wazza, a new phishkit targeting banking, manufacturing, and government organizations across the US, [email protected]

The co-creator of Empire Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces before its shutdown, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for facilitating $430 million in illegal transactions from 2018 to 2020. [...]

Když nový iPhone, tak rovnou omezení nabíjení na 80 % • Test tří generací iPhonů ukazuje, že bychom neměli řešit každé procento baterie • Nabíjení do 80 % je velké omezení, které se v praxi nevyplatí

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 16 malicious Mozilla Firefox extensions that are capable of stealing cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases and private keys. "The extensions masquerade as wallet portals, desktop utilities, and browser tools, but their code intercepts recovery phrases and private keys during wallet import flows and attempts to send those secrets to Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

No matter what type of Android phone you carry or how you usually use it, one thing is a near-universal constant:

You’re gonna spend a ton of time messing with messages.

The messages may be from clients, colleagues, or your cousin Crissy from Cleveland (damn it, Crissy!). But regardless of who sends ’em or what they’re about, they’re all poppin’ up on your phone and cluttering your weary brainspace.

My fellow Android adventurer, I’m here to tell you there’s a better way.

Google’s Android Messages app has gotten surprisingly good over the years. That’s no big secret. If you only rely on what you see on the surface, though, you’re missing out on some of Messages’ most powerful and underappreciated efficiency-enhancing options.

Today, we’ll unearth some of Messages’ most effective step-savers. They may not be able to cut down on the number of messages you send and receive on your phone (DAMN IT, CRISSY!), but they will help you spend less time fussing with ’em. And they might just help you have a more pleasant experience, too.

Let’s dive in, shall we?

(Before you splash forward, take note: The tips on this page are all specific to the Google Messages app for Android. If you’re using a phone where that exact app wasn’t preinstalled or set as the default, you can download it from the Play Store and give it a whirl. You might be pleasantly surprised by what you find.)

[P.S. Want even more advanced Android knowledge? Check out my free Android Shortcut Supercourse to learn tons of time-saving tricks — for messaging and beyond!]

Android Messages trick #1: Smarter shortcuts

If I had to pick the simplest Android Messages trick for enhancing your efficiency, it’d be embracing the built-in shortcuts Google gives us for faster message actions.

And goodness gracious, have we got a gaggle of ’em to learn and remember — so many, in fact, that I just recently put together an entire guide dedicated to that one specific subject.

A few standouts worth calling out here, though:

• You can swipe to the right on any individual message within a thread to reply directly to it — which essentially quotes and repeats the original message above whatever you write for context.
• You can swipe to the left on any message to see the timestamp showing exactly when it was sent.
• And you can tap on any message you’ve sent within a conversation (where everyone is using the current RCS messaging standard) to see if the text has been read.

From the main Messages screen, meanwhile, you can swipe left or right on any message to perform an instant action — archiving the conversation, deleting it, or toggling it between read and unread status.

All you’ve gotta do is mosey your way back into the Messages app’s settings areas and tap on the “Swipe actions” item to set things up the way you want…

> Step-saving swipes within Messages — now available for your customization.

…and then, just remember to actually use those gestures moving forward. (That part’s on you.)

Android Messages trick #2: Instant access

Outside of the actual Google Messages app, you can create your own custom shortcuts for accessing especially important threads directly from your home screen — without ever having to open up the app directly or wade through it to find what you need.

For any conversations you find yourself looking at often, it’s an incredibly handy way to save steps and get to where you’re going more quickly. And it’s incredibly easy to do, too, once you know the trick:

• From your Android device’s home screen or app drawer, press and hold your finger onto the Messages icon.
• That should pull up a pop-up showing your three most recent active conversations.
• You can then tap any of ’em to open it directly or press and hold any of the conversations to drag it directly onto your home screen for easy ongoing access.

Alternatively, you can also use the built-in widgets within the Google Contacts app to achieve something similar for any conversation with any contact on your phone.

Android Messages trick #3: Contact prioritizing

While we’re thinking about making certain conversations stand out, ever wish you could keep your most important messaging threads at the top of the list for easy ongoing access?

Poof: Wish granted. No matter what kind of Android phone you’re holding or how needlessly meddled with its software may be, just hold your finger onto the conversation in question on the main Messages app screen, then tap the pushpin-shaped icon in the app’s upper bar.

You can now pin up to 20 conversations that way, and they’ll always appear above all other threads in that main inbox view.

Android Messages trick #4: Calendar connection

The next time you’re working to plan a meeting or event with a fellow Homo sapien in Messages, make yourself a mental note of this:

Anytime someone sends you a message that includes a specific date and time, the Messages app will underline that text. See it?

That underlined time is a covert link from an incoming message to your Android calendar agenda.

JR Raphael, IDG

You’d be forgiven for failing to realize, but you can actually tap that underlined text to reveal a shortcut for opening that very same day and time in your Android calendar app of choice. It’s a great way to get a quick ‘n’ easy glimpse at your availability for the time you’re discussing.

And if you then want to create a calendar event, just look for the “Create event” command that should appear right below that very same message. That’ll fire up a new calendar event for you on the spot, with the appropriate day and time already filled in.

That button to the left of the text suggestions is a spectacular time-saver for on-the-fly event creation.

JR Raphael, IDG

Don’tcha just love simple step-savers?

Android Messages trick #5: Seamless scheduling

If you’re ready to hammer out a response to a message right now but don’t want your reply to be sent for a while, follow the advice shared by a reader in my Android Intelligence newsletter recently and simply schedule your message for some specific future time.

The Android Messages app’s scheduling system is spectacularly useful. You can rely on it for setting reminders to be sent to clients, business-related messages to be pushed out the next morning, or context-free middle-finger emojis to be delivered to your cousin in Cleveland at ungodly hours in the middle of the night.

To tap into this productivity-boosting power, just type out your message normally — but then, instead of tapping the triangle-shaped send icon at the right of the composing window, press and hold your finger onto that same button when you’re done.

No reasonably sane person would possibly realize it, but that’ll pull up a hidden menu for selecting precisely when your message should be sent.

Send any message, anytime — no matter when you actually write it.

JR Raphael, IDG

And the person on the other end will have no way of even knowing you wrote the thing in advance.

Android Messages trick #6: Swift saving

When you run into a message you know you’ll want to reference again, save yourself the trouble of trying to dig it back up later and instead star it on the spot to make it fast as can be to find in the future.

Once again, it couldn’t be much easier — once you know where to look: Whilst viewing an individual message thread, just press and hold your finger onto the specific message you want to save, then tap the star-shaped icon that appears in the pop-up menu alongside it.

Then, when you want to find the message again, tap the search icon at the top of the main Messages screen and select “Starred” from the menu that comes up. That’ll show you every message you’ve starred for exceptionally effortless resurfacing.

Android Messages trick #7: Smart searching

Speaking of that Messages search system: Starring is sublime, but sometimes, you need to dig up an old message that you didn’t go out of your way to save.

The Android Messages app makes that even easier than you might realize. Tap that same search icon at the top of the app’s main screen — and in addition to searching your entire history message for any specific string of text, take note:

• You can start typing out the name of anyone in your contacts, then select them from the suggestion that appears — and then type in some text to look for something specific only within messages from that one person.
• You can use the options within the main Messages search screen to look specifically at images, videos, locations, or links people have sent you.
• And you can combine any of those variables for even more granular finding — looking for links you sent to a particular client, for instance, or locations an out-of-town colleague sent to you.

The Android Messages app’s search system is chock-full of helpful info.

JR Raphael, IDG

How ’bout them apples?!

Android Messages trick #8: Instant marking

I don’t know about you, but I find it impossibly irksome to see messages sitting with bold emphasis in my Android Messages inbox. That, to me, is a marking that means I need to read (and possibly also respond) to the message in question. And I can’t possibly rest for the day until I know that everything in my Messages inbox is open, addressed, and dealt with (or at least opened and with a reminder set to deal with it at some specific future time).

Sometimes, though, it’s all too easy to fall behind and get a backlog of bolded messages — and in such scenarios, one could really use a quick ‘n’ easy one-switch reset button to bring everything back to read status and give yourself a fresh start.

Well, surprise: Messages has such an option! Tap your profile picture in the app’s upper-right corner and look for “Mark all as read” in the menu that comes up to find it — then let yourself rest easy as all that attention-demanding boldness melts away once and for all.

Android Messages trick #9: Quicker cleanup

Certain services love to send confirmation codes via text messaging when you sign in or try to perform some action. It may not be the most advisable or effective form of extra security, but — well, it’s better than nothing. And for better or for worse, it’s a pretty common tactic.

Core security considerations aside, the most maddening part of these confirmation codes is having ’em clutter up your messages list at every Goog-forsaken moment. But the Google-made Android Messages app can actually take care of that for you, without any ongoing effort — if you take about 20 seconds to make the right tweak now.

Here’s the secret:

• Tappity-tap that comely character in the upper-right corner of the main Messages screen (y’know, the one whose appearance has a striking resemblance to your oversized head).
• Tap “Messages settings” in the menu that comes up, then select “Messages organization.”
• Within that curiously created section, you’ll see only one option: “Auto-delete OTP messages after 24 hours.” OTP may not exactly be an everyday, universally known abbreviation, but fear not — for it isn’t an erroneous reference to an early 90s rap hit with equally ambiguous meaning. Nope: It stands for one-time password, which is the same thing we’re thinking about here.
• Flip that toggle into the on and active position, then flip a finger of your choice to all the confirmation codes in your messages list with the knowledge that they’ll be auto-purged a day after their arrival from that point forward.

Who’s down with OTP? Every last homie. (I apologize.)

Android Messages trick #10: A voice message time-saver

In an amusingly full-circle progression, people for some reason seem to love sending voice messages within texting conversations these days. If you’re anything like me, though, you might not so much adore listening to said messages instead of simply reading what the other person wants to tell you.

Google Messages has a solution: Head back into the app’s settings — by tapping your profile photo in the upper-right corner of the main screen and then selecting “Messages settings” — and then look for the line labeled “Voice message transcription.”

Tap it, and make sure the toggle next to “Show transcripts of voice messages” is in the on and active position.

The next time someone sends you a voice message, you’ll see a plain text transcription of their words right alongside the audio player.

Yes, please — and thank you.

Android Messages trick #11: Readable reactions

Speaking of brevity, Slack-style reactions may seem silly on the surface, but they serve an important communication purpose in allowing you to quickly acknowledge a message without having to carry the conversation on further. Whether it’s a thumbs-up, a clapping hands symbol, or even perhaps an occasional burrito emoji, it really can be a handy way to say “Yup, got it” (or “Yup, want beefy goodness”) without having to use a single word.

You probably know you can summon a reaction within the Android Messages app by pressing and holding a specific message within a conversation and then selecting from the list of available emoji options — right? But beyond that, Messages packs an even faster way to issue a reaction in the blink of an eye.

And here it is: Simply double-tap your finger onto any individual message within a conversation. That’ll apply the thumbs-up reaction to it without the need for any long-press or symbol selection.

It’d be nice if there were a way to customize which reaction is used for that action by default — so that, obviously, we could all change it to the burrito emoji, since that’s what any sane person uses most often — but if and when an upward thumb will do the job, now you’ve got a super-easy way to bring it into any conversation with a fast finger tap.

Android Messages trick #12: iRritation elimination

Last but not least in our list of magnificent Messages enhancements is something specific for your conversations with the Apple-adoring animals in your life. And it relates to those very same sorts of reactions we were just going over.

One obnoxious side effect of Apple’s “no one exists outside of iOS” mentality, y’see, is the way the iPhone’s equivalent of those reactions show up on Android. Plain and simple, they show up as — well, plain and simple text messages, instead of coming through as reactions.

Surely you’ve encountered this, right? Those pointless messages you get from iGoobers that say stuff like “Loved ‘Please stop texting me, Crissy'”? It’s a perfect illustration of how to waste time in your Android messaging adventures and encounter ample annoyance.

Well, scribble this on your metaphorical mental iPad: Google’s Android Messages app is actually able to intercept those absurd platform-specific reactions and turn ’em into standard reactions instead of plain-text interruptions. And it’ll take you all of 12 seconds to enable the option:

• Head back into the Messages app’s settings.
• Tap “Advanced.”
• Look for the line labeled “Show iPhone reactions as emoji” and make sure the toggle next to it is in the on position.

All that’s left is to breathe one final heavy sigh of relief — and to send Crissy a well-deserved burrito reaction.

Hey: Don’t let the learning stop here. Get six full days of advanced shortcut knowledge with my free Android Shortcut Supercourse. Tons of time-saving tricks await!

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Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we highlight some of the lowlights in corporate security. This week, we’ll talk about two scenarios, one that ended in tragedy and another that shows the power of a good defense over dedicated phishing attacks. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at [email protected]. Anonymity is available upon request. Both stories come courtesy of Dave Hatter, a cybersecurity and compliance consultant with Intrust IT. In his many years of experience with the company, Hatter has had to work for a variety of small companies that needed help with their security, whether they knew it or not. One time several years ago, the new CFO at a small construction company phoned Intrust and expressed interest in hiring them. However, the proposal was vetoed by the owner of the company, an older gentleman who thought his business was too small to interest hackers and that his existing, one-person IT staff was all he could afford. “We got a guy, my brother’s uncle’s cousin does my IT, don’t need you guys,” Hatter quotes the owner as saying. “We hear this all the time. Thanks for shopping. You’re too expensive.” Three weeks later, Hatter got a call from a local accountant friend who begged him to help a client who'd been hit with a ransomware attack. Hatter said he couldn’t really give more than general guidance, but would talk to the victim anyway. As soon as he called the number, Hatter realized that the ransomware victim was actually the same construction company that had turned down his services a few weeks earlier. The business had an old unpatched Windows server that contained all its most important data. There was a backup drive, but it was connected to the same server, so both devices were encrypted by the ransomware. “Their entire backup is this external drive, which, of course, is now encrypted,” Hatter said. “So, literally, they can't pay their employees. They don't know who owes them money.” Hatter could not help the company, and he never found out whether it paid the ransom. However, the org, which had been around for years, went out of business within months. This sad story shows the importance of having real backups that are off-site or in the cloud and patching whatever servers you have. You can never assume that your company is too small to be attacked because ransomware gangs want your money and they are just as happy to take on small businesses as large ones, which are likely to be harder targets. The other incident involved two companies in the landscaping and construction business. Somebody broke into an executive’s email account at company one and started sending phishing emails to company number two. The miscreants had also set up email filtering rules in the first company’s account so that the messages from the phishing campaign were routed to buried folders where the real-life account holder would never see them. The phishing mails took the form of RFPs (requests for proposal) – a perfect lure, because who wouldn't want new business? They were perfectly crafted, with no grammar errors or obvious tells, and the return address matched company one's. However, instead of attaching the RFP as a PDF or PowerPoint file, it had a button for the user to click to download it. “If I can get in your email and send out emails as you, the recipients, especially if they've interacted with me before, aren't going to have any guard up,” Hatter said. “Especially if there's no crazy language or crazy requests in there because they've got an email from me before.” Upon clicking the download button, the user was transported to a Microsoft 365 login screen that looked identical to the real one but was not on the microsoft.com domain. The user was then invited to put in their email address and password to gain access to the desired file. Because the user had 2FA, this fake page also asked them for their limited-time 2FA code. Behind the scenes, the threat actors were transmitting the login to Microsoft so that Microsoft itself would send an SMS message to the victim at company number two. Then the victim would pass along the one-time passcode via the fake login site. A classic man-in-the-middle attack. It worked, and the threat actors now had access to the Microsoft 365 account and email for the victim at company number two. This could've allowed them to do almost anything using that person’s email. If the victim had access to bank accounts or customer data, the attackers could have initiated password resets from the account, then conducted fraudulent money transfers, or stolen personal information. At the very least, they could've used the victim's account to phish other contacts. Fortunately, Hatter's client had installed a piece of software his company made called TarBot, which runs in the Microsoft 365 environment and uses Entra ID P2 to help customers identify suspicious logins. “It throws off a bunch of telemetry, statistics, metrics, whatever you want to call it, that allows our software to say, this is an anomalous login, revoke the token, and make the user log in again,” Hatter said. He said his company is not the only one to make apps like TarBot that detect suspicious logins. So the bad guys were kicked out after just a few minutes. But Hatter says the better way to stop these attacks is to use phishing-resistant MFA, such as hardware keys (like the YubiKey line) or passkeys. With today’s AI-assisted phishing, telltale signs such as bad grammar or obviously fake login pages are becoming few and far between. ®

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The U.S. State Department is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of Zhang Yu, a Chinese national charged in the United States in connection with the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server attacks known as HAFNIUM. The reward is for information leading to his identification or location, the news outlet NTD reported this week, citing a notice Swati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to obtain decryptors while claiming to use proprietary tools to recover their data. Zohar Pinhasi (aka Zack Silver and Zack Green) has been charged with two counts of wire fraud and one count of wire Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]