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Billion-dollar botnet busted for pandemic fraud, child exploitation
US Department of Justice (DoJ) officials announced the bust-up of a multi-billion dollar cybercriminal botnet ring on Wednesday – a malicious international network that FBI director Christopher Wray said is “likely the world’s largest botnet ever.”
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New North Korean attacker group fakes tank games
Microsoft has identified a novel North Korean state-sponsored attacker group, Moonstone Sleet, which targets organizations for financial and espionage goals.
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Shell’s customer data claimed to be leaked
Private data allegedly belonging to around 80,000 of Shell’s customers has been found on a hacker forum. Shell claims the company is not the owner of the data.
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US sanctions cybercrime network operating residential proxy botnet service
The 911 S5 service, a residential proxies as a service (RPAAS) platform, leverages residential IP addresses to anonymize malicious traffic and evade detection. This is obviously illegal, and now, the US has imposed sanctions on the network.
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Cooler Master breached, members exposed
Cooler Master, a popular computer hardware maker, has suffered from a data breach, exposing the company’s corporate data as well as the personal details of members from its fan-based members program.
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Toshiba email compromise reveals Social Security numbers
The American subsidiary of Toshiba, Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS), experienced an email compromise that allowed an unauthorized actor to access personal information and Social Security numbers.
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Millions download apps with banking malware from Google Play
Over 90 malicious Android applications have been found on the Google Play store, garnering several millions of installs combined, researchers discovered.
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Hackers claim Ticketmaster in attempt to boost revived forum’s popularity
ShinyHunters cybercrime ring, which is rebooting the infamous illicit marketplace BreachForums after its seizure by the FBI, has posted claims about a very large breach affecting Ticketmaster. However, some analysts speculate that the alleged sale of 560 million customers' data may be a PR stunt.
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New malware to steal money from European ATMs
A new ATM malware family targeting Europe has allegedly emerged in the cybercrime scene, posing a potential threat to the banking industry.
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Someone tried to take down the site that remembers the whole internet
WayBackMachine, a popular archive storing over 800 billion web pages, has experienced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Christie’s hackers say data of 500K clients stolen
The hacker group behind the Christie’s attack claims to have obtained the personal details of “at least” half a million of the famous auction house’s clients.
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Ex-OpenAI board members speak up: Altman’s reinstatement “bodes ill for the OpenAI experiment in self-governance”
Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley, OpenAI board members from 2021 to 2023 and from 2018 to 2023, respectively, are calling for state regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) companies since “self-governance cannot reliably withstand the pressure of profit incentives.”
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Musk's xAI is looking for talent – here's how much he’s willing to pay
Elon Musk's xAI, which has just announced $6 billion in funding, is planning to hire around 20 new employees.
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Sav-Rx data incident affects 2.8M people
The medication management provider Sav-Rx has suffered a data breach, affecting the personal information of roughly 2.8 million people.
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Ransomware attack hits medical device manufacturer
LivaNova’s employees have been affected by a ransomware attack, which LockBit claims to be responsible for.
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Major US drug distributor breached, health information stolen
Cencora, which partners with Bayer and other major drug companies, has been affected by a data breach, compromising sensitive client health information.
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Apple and Starlink users’ locations can be tracked through WiFi: here's how
New research shows that Apple and Starlink WiFi-based Positioning Systems (WPS) can be abused to create a global privacy threat, especially in war zones.
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Affiliated Dermatologists struck by ransomware attack, 370K impacted
Affiliated Dermatologists (AD) have suffered a ransomware attack, revealing the personally identifiable information (PII) of patients and employees.
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OpenAI walks back restrictions in employee exit contracts
After a significant outcry, OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, has confirmed that it’s now releasing the majority of past employees from restrictive nondisparagement agreements tied to their exit contracts and equity.
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Merrill employee exposes Walmart pension plan members
An employee of Merrill, a division of Bank of America, made an email error that exposed nearly two thousand Walmart 401(k) Plan participants, revealing their personal data.
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