Security
New Orleans launches public safety app in time for Super Bowl 2025
In preparation for Superbowl Sunday, the host City of New Orleans' Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness agency (NOHSEP) has rolled out a new public safety app designed to keep both residents and visitors safe during large-scale events.
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MacOS infostealers rising sharply: stolen data putting enterprises at risk
Between the last two quarters, macOS malware detections doubled, fueled by the surge of infostealer strains designed to siphon sensitive user data, an investigation by Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reveals.
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Python packages posing as DeepSeek contain nasty surprise
Malicious packages are infecting Python repositories and target developers and engineers looking to integrate DeepSeek into their work.
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Trump Hotels allegedly breached by a little-known BreachForums user
A threat actor on BreachForums Tuesday posted what appears to be a sample leak from an alleged data set of 160,000 plus records stolen from the famed Trump Hotels[.]com.
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Bitcoin scammers sending MMS with 3GP videos: old format surprisingly effective
If you haven’t disabled MMS functionality on your phone, it is time to let this old standard go. Bitcoin scammers have been abusing it lately to enhance their fraudulent schemes.
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Anthropic introduces capable system guarding AI models against jailbreaks
Anthropic, a major developer of AI models, has announced that it has developed a new approach that significantly reduces the likelihood of jailbreaking its chatbots. The company is challenging anyone to break it. However, the new system comes with a cost – the Claude chatbot refuses to talk about certain topics widely available on Wikipedia.
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Microsoft Defender ditches privacy protection feature, leaving users without VPN
Millions of people who relied on Microsoft Defender’s privacy protection to hide their IP addresses should look for alternative VPN providers. The tech giant will end support for the feature on February 28th, 2025, less than six months after it was made available on Windows.
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Contec vital signs monitors contain backdoors and send data to murky IP
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alerts healthcare providers that certain patient monitors from Contec and Epsimed are gathering data and beaming it to a hardcoded IP address. The medical devices also contain backdoors, allowing remote unauthorized attackers to run remote code.
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Enter hacking simulations: games that provide foundation and culture
The best hacking games to improve your cybersecurity skills and hacking knowledge. But remember, hack responsibly.
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Skilled criminal hacker exposes 1M Community Health Center patients
Community Health Center (CHC), a leading independent, non-profit healthcare provider in Connecticut, reports a data breach that may have affected 1,061,000 individuals. Health records and other private information may have been stolen.
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Google’s crackdown on bad developers: 2M apps banned from Play Store
Google barred 2.36 million Android apps from entering the Google Play store and prevented an additional 1.3 million apps from gaining excessive access to sensitive user data in 2024. Google also banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts.
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Dangerous mistake: major US broadcaster exposed 1M sensitive files to public
Valley News Live, a subsidiary of America’s third-largest media network, exposed millions of resumes with personal data, ranging from home addresses to educational backgrounds.
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Hackers leverage Google’s phone number, subdomains to attack victims
Scammers managed to call a victim using Google’s phone number, which is listed on the official support website, and then send an email from an official subdomain. It's unclear how threat actors might have abused Google’s features.
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LockBit‘s empire crumbles in the great ransomware reshuffle of 2024
While others can only guess what the latest ransomware trends are, Cybernews knows the full picture. Our research team took a deep dive into what our Ransomlooker tool said about key ransomware trends in 2024.
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Hackers fail at turning AI into a powerful weapon, but scammers are happy
Hackers are already using AI models to be more productive when researching, troubleshooting code, creating, and localizing content, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warns. While attempts are often unoriginal and unsuccessful, new models and agentic systems pop up every day.
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Critical vulnerability plagued AI development platform Lightning AI
Popular AI development platform Lightning AI fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Due to improper user input handling, attackers could run commands with root privileges.
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Unprotected AI service streams private Slack messages for 30 bucks a month
Struct Chat, a $29.95 per month AI-powered Slack tool, organizes and summarizes threads, answers questions, generates newsletters and exposes its users’ private data and communications.
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ENGlobal energy corp says hackers accessed personal data in Nov breach
US-based energy infrastructure solutions company ENGlobal revealed on Tuesday that the attackers who breached the company last November were able to access sensitive personal information from its network servers.
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