Israel Police arrest five suspects in alleged NIS 16 million WhatsApp cryptocurrency fraud scheme
Israel Police arrested five suspects in an alleged NIS 16 million cryptocurrency scheme involving WhatsApp trades and transfers disguised as loans.
Tzohar launches 'You Have a Rabbi' WhatsApp hotline as Israeli public's interest in Judaism grows
Employee training startup raises $40 million
Qatargate suspect Urich confirms phone was hacked, says leakers will 'pay full price'
Western intelligence warns of Iranian cyber campaign using spyware against activists, press
Britain's National Cyber Security Center said Iranian state-linked cyber actors had used a spyware family known as "CHOSEN BRICK" to steal emails, messages, and other sensitive information.
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Australia seeks to curb social media algorithms with new feed choice law
Australia’s proposed “My Feed, My Way” reforms would let users opt out of algorithmic recommendations and see only content from accounts they follow.
Court extends detention of soldier suspected of committing sexual offenses against minors
The soldier allegedly posed online as a 16-year-old boy to contact girls aged 14 and 15 and persuade them to send him revealing photographs. He allegedly later began extorting and threatening them.
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Wave of WhatsApp suspensions sweeps across Israel, raising concerns of blocked accounts
The Israel Internet Association on Saturday advised WhatsApp users to back up important information stored in the messenger app in case their accounts were suspended as well.
Israel's Attention Revolution fights child smartphone addiction, spreading nationwide
Banner said the initiative, which is growing “rapidly, sevenfold” in recent years, works through the mechanism of a social contract between parents on a class-by-class level.
Police officer indicted after allegations of using confidential databases to harass, extort women
The 15-count indictment filed by the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigation Department names 28-year-old Samer Sheikh of Abu Snan, who served in the traffic division of the police’s Yarkon district.
WhatsApp's next move: Real-time scam detection
WhatsApp is developing a new feature that will detect suspicious messages from unknown numbers. All analysis will be performed directly on the phone, without sending content to Meta's servers.
Meta claims Israeli spyware firm NSO Group failed to complain, demands further pressure by US gov't
The complaint accuses the Israeli firm of running a phishing campaign that tricks users into clicking links leading to malicious websites, and of testing its products on WhatsApp accounts and groups.
