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Rogers Communications data allegedly sold on a hacker forum

Rogers’ leak includes data from the company’s active directory, including information on customers, the attackers claim.
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UK’s state hackers take on hostile countries and terrorists

For the first time, the government of the United Kingdom formally confirmed its National Cyber Force (NCF) has been conducting offensive operations – against unfriendly regimes and terrorist organizations.
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Belgian man commits suicide after talking to chatbot

There are quite a few AI-supported chatbots designed to assist you with your mental health. But in Belgium, a talk with a virtual assistant didn’t help a young man at all – he committed suicide.
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Ukraine hacktivists trick wives into exposing Russian airmen suspected of war crimes

Military wives' sultry photos have led Ukrainian hacktivists to sensitive personal information about Russian air force pilots accused of war crimes in Ukraine.
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ChatGPT tied to Samsung’s alleged data leak

Samsung employees have been reported by local media as sharing confidential data with ChatGPT, opening up the data to OpenAI’s users.
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Pirated Microsoft Office copy caused utility firm breach

A Ukrainian utility company was breached after installing a pirated version of Microsoft Office downloaded from a torrent website.
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Business operations disrupted at Western Digital following network security incident

Computer drive and data storage device manufacturer Western Digital is investigating a network security incident from last week that partly shut down its business, including its MyCloud storage platform, leaving many users in the dark and questioning if their data is safe.
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Feds seize $112m from CryptoRom swindlers

Scammers allegedly used the seized accounts to launder funds acquired via cryptocurrency confidence scams, known as “CryptoRom” or “pig butchering.”
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Australia latest to ban TikTok on government phones

Australia has joined the growing list of Western nations limiting the use of TikTok among government employees over security.
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Attackers start leaking Procter & Gamble data

Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) supposedly commercial data was posted on a dark-web blog that cybercriminals use to publicize and blackmail victims.
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Twitter source code explained

Twitter has officially posted parts of its source code in two main repositories on the code-sharing platform GitHub. The question is, what exactly is being revealed in the cache, and will the move end up being a win for both users and the company? Let's find out.
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Snatch ransom gang claims City of Modesto

Snatch has taken credit for a previous ransomware attack on the California City of Modesto that forced police to patrol the streets using handheld radios.
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Vice Society nabs Lewis & Clark College as latest ransomware victim

The Vice Society ransomware gang claims its latest victim, the prestigious Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Now, Lewis & Clark officials say they refuse to pay the gang's ransom demands.
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US court forces GitHub to reveal Twitter's source code leaker

Twitter has obtained a subpoena forcing GitHub to reveal the user allegedly responsible for posting “variable excerpts” of leaked Twitter source code on the GitHub community site.
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Beware: infected 3CX desktop app spread by North Korean hackers

A popular voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) software, 3CX, is being abused by attackers to spread a malicious payload. A North Korean threat actor is suspected to be behind the supply-chain attack.
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UK watchdog raises alarm as crooks steal WhatsApp accounts

Action Fraud, the UK’s national cybercrime reporting center, urges users to add an extra layer of protection to WhatApp accounts.
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Real or fake? Every third American fooled by AI images

An experiment has shown that 35% of Americans could not tell photographs of famous landmarks from images generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
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Pro-Kremlin hackers strike French parliament

NoName057(16), an anti-Ukrainian hacktivist collective, has brought down the website of the French National Assembly for several hours to send a message to French President Emmanuel Macron.
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BMW France claimed as Play ransomware victim

BMW France has been named on a dark-web blog that crooks use to publicize their latest victims. The company hasn’t confirmed the attack so far.
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LockBit ransomware gang infrastructure reported down

A ransomware-monitoring website reported that the infamous LockBit gang might have been taken offline - now, it looks as if the incident was a false alarm.
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