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YouTube cheat site lures gamers into malware trap
Stealer malware disguising itself as a YouTube channel offering cheats and hacks for popular video games has been spotted by cybersecurity watchdog SecureList.
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Google met with €25bn lawsuit in UK and EU for anticompetitive adtech practices
Google is met with a €25bn ($25.4bn) lawsuit in the UK and EU following accusations of the abuse of its dominant position in the online advertising market.
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HP left computer firmware flaws unfixed for over a year
Six high-severity vulnerabilities were found to plague HP laptops and computers. Even though some of the bugs were disclosed over a year ago, researchers say they’re still not fixed.
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Scammers defraud hundreds of victims from prison
Dutch authorities sentenced two cybercriminals for running a large-scale phishing campaign from their jail cell.
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200k North Face customers lose data in a breach
Hackers have hit an outdoor apparel company, The North Face. A credential stuffing attack cost the company data of 194,905 of its customers.
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Hackers leak sensitive data of over 105m Indonesian citizens
The leaked dataset includes Indonesian citizens’ ID card numbers, full names, dates of birth, and other personal identifiable information.
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Flirt with Iranian hackers cost defense minister’s cleaner his freedom
An Israeli citizen who worked in the home of Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz was sentenced to three years in prison for attempting to sell Iranian hackers sensitive information.
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Signal appoints former Google manager as president
Signal, the encrypted messaging platform, has appointed Meredith Whittaker as its first president, a newly created role in the company.
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Twitter introduces long-awaited edit button
Twitter said its paid subscribers would be the first in line to use the edit button.
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REvil claims to have hit a Fortune 500 company
Hackers claim to have stolen around 400 GB of data, including firmware source code and financial data. If confirmed, the hit would be REvil’s biggest in months.
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Hackers exploit users’ desire to get verified by Instagram
Threat actors take advantage of Instagram’s highly sought-after verification program to harvest user credentials.
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Over 1,800 iOS and Android apps leak AWS credentials
Flawed Android and iOS app developer practices could allow attackers to access private Amazon Web Services credentials.
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The James Webb Space Telescope deep field picture infected with malware
The James Webb Space Telescope’s scientific endeavor has grasped our attention, reporting news about the early universe. As is typical with trends, threat actors followed, exploiting one of Webb’s pictures to deliver the payload.
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Dark web too shady for pros monitoring the underground
Cyber threat intelligence professionals believe they couldn’t find private data leaked from their organizations on the dark web.
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Hacktivists turn Belarusian president’s passport into NFT
Belarusian hacktivist group Cyber Partisans claim to have stolen the passport details of every citizen of Belarus. Hackers turned the ID of the country’s president Aleksandr Lukashenko into an NFT.
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Insta360 vulnerability allows unauthorized access to user photos
A software flaw discovered seven months ago allows anyone to access and download photos users made with Insta360 cameras.
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US sues data broker for selling sensitive location data from millions of users
The lawsuit from the FTC alleges that the data Kochava sells could allow tracking customers’ visits to reproductive health clinics, places of worship, and addiction recovery centers.
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Italian firm accused of running Pegasus-style spyware
A small firm owned by the Italian company implicated in a recent phone-hacking scandal has been using tracking software to secretly monitor the communications of people all over the world, according to an NGO.
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DoorDash customer and driver information exposed in data breach
Food delivery company DoorDash confirmed an "unauthorized party" had accessed personal details of some customers and drivers through a phishing attack on a third-party vendor.
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LastPass confirms breach
Password manager with over 25 million users admitted to being hacked — an attacker exfiltrated portions of internal data.
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