Forensic analysis: hackers planted files on at least three Indian activists and likely colluded with police, yet 11 of 16 activists in related case still jailed (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers say Slack and Microsoft Teams have fundamental issues vetting third-party apps and should overhaul their app model to be more like traditional OSes  —  New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
A look at Ukraine’s efforts to block crypto donations to Russia’s military and paramilitary groups, who researchers say have received $4M+ since the invasion  —  Blockchain investigators have uncovered at least $4 million—and counting—in cryptocurrency donations to Russia’s violent militia groups.

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
VMware and Google’s Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware’s virtualization software on multiple targets’ networks  —  For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software.  Now one group has put them into practice.

Matt Burgess / Wired:
The 2020 EncroChat hack led by French and Dutch police is facing growing legal challenges across Europe and the fallout could have global implications for E2EE  —  When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine.  But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.

Tom Giles / Bloomberg:
Filing: Twitter says Elon Musk is under a federal investigation related to his acquisition of the company and asks for access to docs he gave to authorities  —  Billionaire Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities related to his attempted acquisition of Twitter Inc. …

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
NY judge rules the bulk of the state AGs’ ad tech antitrust suit against Google can proceed, but dismissed the claim Meta and Google colluded via Jedi Blue  —  An antitrust suit by state attorneys general accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of monopolizing the technology underlying online advertising …