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One New Yorker has been busy buying stolen data and defrauding the state
A Buffalo man pleaded guilty to possessing over 15 unauthorized access devices containing stolen data, which he bought from Genesis Market. The man also obtained roughly $25,000 from the New York State Department of Labor without authorization.
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Too many cookies: Chrome to reduce the load for annoyed users
Developers are destroying redundant cookie requests on the browser to make Chrome work faster, as it should.
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US regulators roll up sleeves for Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia inquiries
US federal regulators are getting ready to intervene over the alleged concentration of power in the artificial intelligence sector. Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI are the main targets.
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Financial data wiped from US eye clinics, over 300k people affected
An alleged ransomware attack on a physicians' management service provider has left more than 300,000 individuals affected.
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Terabytes of Advance Auto Parts data stolen in Snowflake attack
The Cybernews research team has reviewed a sample of the data and believes that the leak is legitimate.
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Dubai government suffers alleged ransomware attack
The ultra luxurious city of Dubai has allegedly been hit by ransomware according to the latest dark blog post by the cybercriminal group known as the Daixin Team.
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Ransomware attack chaos at London hospitals blamed on Qilin gang
The ransomware attack on England NHS partner Synnovis labs – which triggered a pause on critical services at five NHS London hospitals – has been claimed by the Qilin ransomware group.
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AI mortgage startup LoanSnap, which raised $100 million, faces lawsuits
LoanSnap is now unable to pay its debts and has been forced out of its headquarters.
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“Keep AI away from Spiderman” says Spider-Verse producer
The producer of the famous Spider-Verse franchise movies said that the movies always were about creating new styles, not plagiarizing other artists' work.
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Fraudsters setting pay-for-jobs traps, FBI warns
Scammers are increasingly offering fake work-from-home jobs. They lure victims with relatively simple, profitable tasks but ask for crypto to “unlock” work.
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Accidental or not, another Google leak exposes multiple privacy breaches
Google cannot escape hot water. The tech giant has scrambled to fix its new AI Overview feature, but now, a second leak in a week revealed that it had been collecting sensitive data from users.
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TikTok fends off cyberattack targeting CNN, Paris Hilton
TikTok said it had taken steps to foil a cyberattack on Tuesday targeting some of the short video platform’s high profile accounts.
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Ransomware attack forces London hospitals to cancel services
The National Health Services (NHS) of England says several major hospitals in London were forced to divert patients and cancel services on Tuesday in the wake of an ongoing cyberattack on a third-party lab provider.
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Technical glitch behind 99% drop in Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway stock
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shocked some investors with stock price drops as large as 99% in Berkshire Hathaway’s case on Monday. However, the incorrect prices were displayed due to a technical issue, the NYSE explained.
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“Tom Cruise” undermining Paris Olympics in Russian deepfake
Telegram channels that typically blast pro-Kremlin propaganda are aggressively promoting a tantalizing faux documentary called “Olympics Has Fallen.” Resembling the 2013 action hit “Olympus Has Fallen,” the feature-length production is filled with AI-generated trickery, mimicking Tom Cruise’s voice to condemn the International Olympic Committee. It’s just one of many tricks to sow fear.
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Clevo gaming laptop-maker claimed by RansomHub ransomware gang
Clevo, a leading manufacturer of customizable gaming laptops, was claimed Monday by RansomHub, the cybercriminal gang recently involved in publishing stolen data from UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare hack.
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Millions of Americans’ home addresses allegedly exposed
Billions of personal records on millions of Americans may soon end up on the internet as attackers are planning to leak info stolen from a background check and person lookup and verification company.
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The CyberBunker’s underground facility in Germany is up for sale
A Cold War-era bunker, built by the German military and later used by cybercrime ring CyberBunker to power the dark web, is now for sale.
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Major German party CDU hit with cyberattack
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) has suffered a “serious” cyberattack, Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) confirmed.
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Ticketmaster breach confirmed, third party blamed
Live Nation has confirmed that its subsidiary Ticketmaster suffered a data breach, as revealed by the regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Researchers warn that this is part of a larger hack affecting cloud service provider Snowflake.
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