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MOVEit saga drags on as credit union discloses 100K victims
University Federal Credit Union has admitted a data breach related to this year’s hack of the third-party MOVEit software.
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Israel’s government and media websites hit with cyberattacks
Hacktivists, including cyber gangs such as the infamous Killnet, a Russian hacker group, are targeting various Israeli organizations following deadly attacks by Hamas militants.
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Global scam on WhatsApp and Telegram costs job seekers over $100M
Scammers allegedly linked to China are impersonating thousands of companies to steal money from job seekers.
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Fiserv attack exposes 837K Flagstar Bank clients
Flagstar Bank’s vendor, the financial technology giant Fiserv, has fallen victim to the MOVEit Transfer attacks, exposing the personal details of hundreds of thousands of the bank’s customers.
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Persistent threat actor reappears after FBI takedown of QakBot
Just a few weeks ago, US law enforcement said that it dismantled a prominent decade-old malware platform with ties to Russia. But the cybercriminal group using the loader is still active, researchers have now said.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook most popular of Big Tech employees, X's CEO Linda Yaccarino, not so much
Apple employees give CEO Tim Cook the thumbs up in a new survey ranking the most popular CEOs among its workers, while X’s (formally Twitter) new kid on the block, CEO Linda Yaccarino, rates deep in the single digits.
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Why Bing Chat and other AI models answering political queries is a bad idea
A new study suggests that using large language models like Bing Chat or ChatGPT as a source of information for deciding how to vote is actually quite dangerous.
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Russia mistakenly doxxes its own secret bases and spies
A relatively obscure website of the Moscow City Hall has given away a list of “special consumers” on the Russian electricity grid. It includes facilities maintained by the country’s military and security agencies.
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PlayStation maker victimized in MOVEit Transfer breach
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), a Sony branch responsible for developing PlayStation consoles, said that thousands of its former employees had their data exposed in the largest breach of 2023.
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Tesla victory, 'Autopilot' class action lawsuit is a no-go
A California judge grants Tesla a significant victory after ruling that a class action suit sought against the electric car manufacturer for false claims about its “self-driving” Autopilot feature can only proceed through individual arbitration.
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Hackers attack US healthcare giant, more than 190K people affected
Prospect Medical Holdings admits that it was hacked, with hundreds of thousands of employees and patients left affected. Prospect Medical...
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100K exposed systems endanger power, traffic, water utilities
Nearly 100,000 exposed industrial control systems (ICSs) allow attackers to take over physical infrastructure such as power grids, traffic light systems, security, and water systems, researchers say.
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LastPass employees and customers targeted in “pervasive” phishing campaign
A convincing phishing campaign has targeted LastPass in two waves.
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Grindr’s record $6 million data-sharing fine upheld
Grindr will have to dig into its coffers as the Norwegian Privacy Appeals Board upheld its NOK 65 million ($6.12 million) fine over the app sharing user data with third parties.
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Dozens of Mullvad VPN accounts discovered on the dark web
The company insists this is not a leak but rather accounts that were given away for free and ended up on public forums.
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Researchers extract audio from still images and silent videos
What if you could hear photos? Impossible, right? Not anymore – with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, researchers can now get audio from photos and silent videos.
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Disney joins account sharing crackdown
Disney Plus has started informing customers about the impending restrictions on account sharing, which will be limited to a single household.
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Meta unveils Facebook-streaming Ray-Bans, AI assistant
Mark Zuckerberg rolled out a new generation of Ray-Ban smart glasses that can stream directly on Facebook.
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Indonesia bans e-commerce transactions on TikTok, other social media
This is a blow to short video app, which is doubling down on Southeast Asia's biggest economy to boost its e-commerce business.
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US teens loot Apple, Lululemon, and Footlocker stores, most devices left behind
The organized looting of retail shops took place in Philadelphia and led to several arrests.
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