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Data of 100K Hey You users allegedly for sale on the dark web
One threat actor is advertising a database allegedly belonging to an Australian food ordering app, Hey You.
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LockBit holds its word, publishes US Federal Reserve alleged data
LockBit ransomware gang on Tuesday published a massive cache of files allegedly stolen from the US Federal Reserve central banking system after an apparent negotiation breakdown.
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How freelance crooks facilitate major corporate hacks
Some criminals make big bucks simply by helping out other crooks – selling them initial access to a company.
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Report: Amazon secretly developing ChatGPT killer
Amazon, the e-commerce giant, is reportedly working on a new generative AI chatbot to directly compete and eventually overwhelm OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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Microsoft dismantles its underwater data centers
The tech giant has discontinued its quest to use the sea floor for its data centers, even though the machinery was thriving underwater.
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Fake law firms swindle crypto scam victims out of additional $10 million
Fictitious law firms are after cryptocurrency scam victims, and this tactic netted the secondary scammers millions, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns.
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Assange walks free: what happens to him, WikiLeaks, and free speech now?
World’s leaker-in-chief Julian Assange has been released from a British prison and is expected to plead guilty to violating US espionage law before returning home to native Australia. Why now and what happens now?
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Deepfake Musk crypto “giveaways” resurface on Youtube
This problem may be many years old, but crypto scammers still find a way to stream for hours on YouTube using stolen celebrity identities, all while collecting thousands of dollars.
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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus discloses data breach, Snowflake's name comes up
Names, contact details, dates of birth, and gift card data of Neman Marcus clients have been compromised in a third-party breach.
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CDK to pay ransom attacker BlackSuit as US car dealers struggle
Auto dealers across North America continue to grapple with the fallout from last week's cyberattack on automotive software provider CDK Global. This as the BlackSuit hacker group steps forward with a reported $10 million ransom demand.
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LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked US Federal Reserve
The US Federal Reserve Board of Governors – the central banking system of the United States – was named by the notorious LockBit ransomware group over the weekend, though some insiders are calling it rubbish.
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LockBit in $8M Indonesia ransom demand
A cyber attacker has compromised Indonesia's national data center, disrupting immigration checks at airports, and asked for an $8 million ransom.
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Levi Strauss notifies customers of cyberattack
Personal information, including partial payment details, may have been obtained by bad actors during an automated credential-stuffing attack on Levi’s online store.
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Santander US reveals employee bank account details stolen
Thousands of Santander’s US-based employees had their bank account information stolen in the recent data breach.
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London hospital attackers started leaking blood test data
Cybercriminals behind attacks disrupting at least five London hospitals leaked nearly 400 gigabytes of data, which reportedly included blood test information.
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Anthropic’s updated mid-size AI model claims the crown
AI startup Anthropic has launched a new large language model (LLM), Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which replaces the previous free tier Claude 3.0 Sonnet. The company claims that this chatbot is currently the most powerful, outperforming even the top-tier models from competitors.
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Popular bubble tea chain Chicha San Chen breached in Singapore
Members of Chicha San Chen are advised to change their passwords as soon as possible, as hackers exposed credentials and personal information on the dark web, the Straits Times reports in Singapore.
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Security firm Accenture breached, claim cybercriminals
Private data allegedly belonging to more than 30,000 employees of multinational IT company Accenture is being sold by cybercriminals. The company claims that only the data of three employees were leaked.
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EU pushes new law to allow bulk scanning of your chat messages
European elections are over, and the European soccer championship is in full swing – why not greenlight bulk searches of people’s private communications, even encrypted ones? The proposed EU legislation has activists all over the continent up in arms.
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Advance Auto Parts confirms breach, says it’ll cost millions
American automotive parts giant Advance Auto Parts confirmed that the company’s data was accessed via its third-party.
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