Next month, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in Chatrie v. United States on the government’s use of geofencing warrants to obtain a person’s cell phone data. Their ruling could have major implications for how and when law enforcement and the state can access Americans’ sensitive personal information in the digital age. https://newrepublic.com/article/207706/geofencing-supreme-court-fourth-amendment-test-chatrie
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A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months behind bars after artificial intelligence facial recognition software wrongly identified her as a suspect in a bank fraud case – in North Dakota – a state she says she had never even visited. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/tennessee-grandmother-ai-arrest-error-north-dakota-b2938261.html
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Lookout Threat Labs has discovered DarkSword, a full iOS exploit chain and payload for iPhones running iOS versions between iOS 18.4 and 18.6.2. This threat was deployed by the same unknown, likely Russian, threat actor who also deployed the Coruna exploit chain reported earlier this year. https://www.lookout.com/threat-intelligence/article/darksword
A threat actor has leaked the entire source code of Sweden's E-Government platform, claiming it was obtained through a heavily compromised CGI Sverige AB infrastructure. CGI Sverige is the Swedish subsidiary of global IT services giant CGI Group and manages critical government digital services.The source code is being released for free with multiple backup download links, while citizen databases are sold separately.
https://darkwebinformer.com/full-source-code-of-swedens-e-government-platform-leaked-from-compromised-cgi-sverige-infrastructure/
https://darkwebinformer.com/full-source-code-of-swedens-e-government-platform-leaked-from-compromised-cgi-sverige-infrastructure/
How to film federal agents in the field — advice for independent journalists https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/how-to-film-federal-agents-in-the-field-advice-for-independent-journalists/
Clients of a long-running email marketing platform are getting targeted with a phishing campaign telling them that their emails would begin inserting a “‘Support ICE’ donation button” into every email they send. Scammers are trying to capitalize on people’s revulsion to ICE by coming up with strategies that would trick users into trying to log into their accounts to disable the setting. In reality, clients are revealing their username and password to hackers. https://www.404media.co/ice-phishing-scammers-are-sending-support-ice-emails-to-steal-credentials/
A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine and China used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned. The tools, which were intended for Western spies, wound up in the hands of various hacking groups, including Russian government spies and Chinese cybercriminals. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/us-military-contractor-likely-built-iphone-hacking-tools-used-by-russian-spies-in-ukraine/
We've signed an open letter to Google to advocate against their mandatory Android developer registration program. Make your voice heard to keep Android open: https://keepandroidopen.org/
Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching porn, leaked intimate data about thousands of users, including their masturbation habits, and lied to users about security issues. https://www.404media.co/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/
