Researchers have uncovered the Octopus Trojan in a wave of cyberattacks being launched against diplomatic entities across central Asia. More security news DHS and GCHQ join Amazon and Apple in denying Bloomberg chip hack story Amazon fires employee for sharing customers’ email addresses No, Apple hasn’t activated a secret Mac repair kill switch – yet Web hosting providers take three days, on average, to respond to abuse reports According to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, the targeted campaign has used the recent ban of Telegram messenger across Russia and reported attempts to ban the service across some former Soviet areas such as Kazakhstan to dupe victims into believing they are downloading an accessible, legitimate version of the true communications service.

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