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SAS Airlines knocked offline in second Valentine's Day cyber attack targeting Sweden
SAS airlines website and mobile app are knocked offline by hackers Tuesday evening, customer data has been reported compromised.
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Mobile game with 10m+ downloads spills source code, endangers user data
Attackers shared the data allegedly taken from the creators of Escalators, a game from Supersonic Studios LTD.
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Fake donation schemes blossom after devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria
Where tragedy strikes, a fraudster follows. The aftermath of the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria is no different – financial scammers are capitalizing on this natural disaster to trick people.
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Hackers target Valentino, Michael Kors, and Creed fashionistas
Dorben Group, a key partner for Valentino, Creed, and Michael Kors luxury brands in Latin America, allegedly suffered a data breach as information belonging to 790,000 customers ended up on a hacker forum.
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Russia wants to legalize cybercrime for homeland
The Russian government wants to decriminalize hacking – as long as attacks are carried out in the interests of the country, which is currently waging war in Ukraine. Obviously, the so-called patriotic hackers were already free of all prosecution anyway.
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Two California cities hit with ransomware in two days, police forced to patrol using handheld radios
The cities of Oakland and Modesto, California are attacked by ransomware this week, shutting down government services and forcing “old school policing” in one city.
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Over 3 million patient records breached in California health network ransomware attack
The California health network, Heritage Provider Network, suffered a massive data breach in December exposing the personal health information (PHI) of 3.3 million patients.
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Users flock to sign up for Microsoft’s new AI powered Bing, Google behind the power curve yet again
Over one million users have signed up to try out the new ChatGPT powered Bing search engine over the past 48 hours, marking another victory for Microsoft in the AI chatbot wars.
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Hackers target US telecommunications firms, leak consumer data
Threat actors have targeted several US telecommunications companies extensively since January, according to the cybersecurity firm Cyble. Data of more than 74 million consumers had been leaked.
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North Korea uses ransomware to fund its operations – CISA
US authorities believe North Korea targets critical infrastructure objects with ransomware and pours ransom money to fund Pyongyang’s policies.
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Reddit admits security breach
Unlike many other recent targets, Reddit, a popular social media site, was quick to disclose some company data was stolen in a phishing incident. It said user information was not impacted and remains safe – so far.
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Netflix extends account sharing crackdown: prices for extra members revealed
It begins. Netflix announced on Wednesday that it is introducing limits on account and password sharing, already active in South America, in four more countries. The company also revealed prices for additional “homes” – they’re higher than expected.
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Pigeons puzzle experts with AI-matching intelligence
While the world is impressed with AI capabilities, scientists tried pigeon intelligence only to conclude that they can learn similarly to AI.
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Billions lost in value after Google’s ChatGPT AI rival made a mistake
Google stocks free fall, costing the company billions, following the news its AI chatbot Bard gave inaccurate answers in a promotional video.
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Wikipedia shutdown earns Pakistan slap from human rights group
Human rights organization Access Now has called upon Pakistan to “cease its systematic control over online spaces” following a crackdown by its government earlier this month on Wikipedia for content it deemed “sacrilegious.”
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Grocery delivery platform Weee! confirms data breach
US-based grocery delivery platform Weee! said it would individually contact customers impacted by the data breach.
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US online grocery delivery platform leaks 11m user records
Weee!, a US-based online grocery delivery platform, had delivery data of 11 million customers leaked online.
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France nabs serial hacker behind over 50,000 cybercrimes
Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki was arrested for attacking a psychotherapy center and blackmailing the patients. But that is only one of the thousands of cybercrime deeds on his track record.
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Global ransomware attack targets VMware ESXi servers
Attackers are exploiting a known vulnerability to target hundreds of servers in France, the USA, Germany, Finland, Italy, and other countries.
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Cyberattack forced US hospital to cancel surgeries
Florida hospital operator was hit with a cyberattack, forcing the organization to cancel surgical procedures.
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