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Hackers claim to have breached Italy’s revenue agency
The LockBit ransomware group claims to have stolen 78 gigabytes of data from the Agenzia delle Entrate, Italy’s primary revenue agency.
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Google exploit used against journalists
A previously unidentified weakness in Google Chrome’s defenses was recently used by threat actors to target journalists in the Middle East, according to Avast.
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Google booted engineer who deemed AI chatbot sentient
The company reasoned that the software engineer violated Google’s employment and data security policies by openly discussing LaMDA.
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Thai pro-democracy activists targeted with Pegasus spyware
Several Thai citizens were hit by Pegasus spyware in what appears to be “an extensive espionage campaign” against the local democracy movement.
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NSO Group sold spyware to 14 EU governments
Half of the EU member states have purchased the infamous Pegasus spyware, the EU delegation said after it visited Israel.
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Robot dog with machine gun hints of a dystopian future
While Boston Dynamics show off their robot’s dance moves, others turn similar-looking devices into dystopian killing machines.
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Novel CloudMensis spyware targets Apple macOS users
Malware researchers dubbed CloudMensis use cloud storage to exfiltrate documents, keystrokes, and screen captures from compromised Macs.
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Play Store apps spotted distributing malware for Android devices
Apps from the official Play Store distributed Joker, FaceStealer, and Coper malware families, researchers have discovered.
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Hacker releases 4GB archive of internal Roblox employee data online
A threat actor breached an employee account of Roblox Corporation and posted what seems to be a cache of internal documents online.
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Russia fines Google $387m for showing the war-torn reality of Ukraine
A Moscow court has fined Google over 21 billion rubles (over $387 million) for repeatedly failing to remove "illegal" content from YouTube.
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Mass malware infection detected on Digium phones
More than half a million instances of malware have been observed on software used by the popular landline brand Digium in the first three months of the year.
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Google ditches the 'App Permissions' list from its Play Store
The permissions list in the Play Store has been replaced with a 'Data Safety' section, providing users with information on the app's data collection and processing practices.
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All Albanian government systems shut down following a cyberattack
Albanian government systems and public services websites got shut down on Sunday following a massive cyberattack.
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Cloudflare named the botnet behind record-breaking DDoS attack
Cloudflare says that Mantis botnet is responsible for the 26 million requests per second.HTTPS DDoS attack, the largest on record.
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Imposter immigration officers threaten to have you deported
Scammers try to scare you into believing you’ve violated the immigration law. Unless you pay a fee, they threaten to alert the police.
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Threat actors impersonate Crowdstrike to extort data and deploy ransomware
Hackers use a callback phishing campaign to impersonate cybersecurity companies to gain access to corporate networks.
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Conman used phishing techniques to defraud insurers out of millions
A New York businessman has been found guilty of using email and SMS to con medical insurance companies out of $600 million, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced.
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Quantum platform to boost scientific research
Classical computers are destined to meet with their potentially much more powerful quantum cousins, thanks to a hybrid platform announced by developer NVIDIA.
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Amazon launches cancer vaccine trial
Amazon veers further into the healthcare industry by launching a cancer vaccine trial in partnership with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
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Microsoft records a phishing campaign targeting over 10k organizations
Threat actors behind a large-scale phishing campaign stole passwords, hijacked a user’s sign-in session, and were able to circumvent the authentication process.
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