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Another day, another bit of worrying news from Twitter. It turns out that the social media platform has quietly abandoned enforcement of its COVID misinformation rules.

Putin called for a new blockchain-based digital currency payment system for cross-border transactions amidst the wave of sanctions and international pressure on Russia’s economy.

Who sins more, the tempter or the tempted? The old conundrum seems appropriate to a cyber scam recently uncovered on TikTok – promising gullible users to “unfilter” blurred images of naked people on the social media platform to trick them into downloading malicious software.

Despite Twitter being banned in China, data from the app analytics firm SensorTower shows that its downloads have been surging in recent days, as protests against the never-ending COVID restrictions continue in the country.

Attackers target FIFA World Cup 2022 fans searching for tickets, official merchandise, and temporary jobs in Qatar.

Meta was fined $276m by Ireland’s data privacy regulator over a leak that exposed hundreds of millions of user records.

Twitter CEO Musk said Apple threatened to block Twitter from its app store without saying why in a series of tweets.

Acer devices are impacted by a driver vulnerability similar to an earlier discovered bug that affected several Lenovo computer models.

A mere dozen of ads on a job listings website can tell you a lot – especially if the company doing the hiring is Netflix, and if it’s looking for talents in the high-profile video game industry.

International police celebrated Cyber Monday with a cyber bust of gargantuan proportions – shutting down more than 12,500 illegal websites and disconnecting dozens of servers streaming pirated content across thousands of channels.

Iran’s Fars state news agency has been hit with a cyberattack which was first claimed by the hacktivist group Black Reward. Tehran, trying to deal with huge anti-government protests, blames Israel.

Someone is allegedly selling up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. A data sample investigated by Cybernews likely confirms this to be true.

Threat actors still leverage the COVID-19 pandemic to lure victims into a trap.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced the banning of telecom and video surveillance equipment from prominent Chinese brands.

A new strain of ransomware linked to the Russian-affiliated threat group Sandworm has been spotted in the wild, targeting Ukrainian organizations.

Ransomware cartel Vice Society added data stolen from IKEA Morocco and IKEA Kuwait to the gang’s website.

They say that sex sells – and in this case, it appears to be a good tactic for obscuring news feeds on Twitter about the rash of protests that have erupted in response to China’s latest COVID-19 clampdown.

Maple Leaf Foods, a Canadian meats company, was added to the Black Basta ransomware gang’s victim list on the dark web.

FC Barcelona, Europe‘s top football club, had its official website used by scammers in a third-party fraud.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has joined an ongoing investigation into a ransomware attack on Continental, a German tire and car parts company. The gang LockBit is behind the breach.