Security
EU launches own vulnerability database in wake of CVE funding issues
Europe launches its own vulnerability database on Tuesday – one that will work in tandem with existing industry databases, including Mitre’s widely-used CVE database, which had its own funding crisis last month.
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North Korean cyber spies hack Ukraine to measure Russia’s war needs
North Korean state-sponsored hackers launched attacks against government entities and other organisations in Ukraine. It looks like the rogue state wants to determine if Russia will request more troops or armaments in an ongoing war.
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American college spills half a million files with personal data
Bank Street College of Education, a New York-based private school, exposed hundreds of thousands of files with personal data, including home addresses and phone numbers.
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Co-op was hit by hackers aligned with Kremlin’s agenda, researchers believe
British supermarket chain Co-op is still recovering from a major cyberattack and experiencing significant disruption. Hackers who claimed responsibility for the breach have links to the Russian Federation, according to Halcyon researchers.
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VMware Tools vulnerability enables hackers to tamper with virtual machines
Broadcom alerts that attackers with limited access to a virtual machine can exploit a vulnerability affecting VMware Tools and trigger insecure file operations. The open-source implementation, open-vm-tools, is also affected.
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German DPA orders Meta to halt AI training with EU user data
The Verbraucherzentrale North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), a regional data protection authority (DPA) in Germany, has officially requested Meta to stop its artificial intelligence (AI) training plans in the European Union.
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Thousands of Node developers compromised by malware in popular npm packages
Malware in the Node.js ecosystem is hiding in plain sight. Security researchers uncover npm packages with thousands of installs, delivering remote access trojans, infostealers, or backdoors. The largest one has over 45,000 weekly downloads.
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Profiled by the Defense Department: How hackers are groomed into assets
Greetings, user. If there’s one thing whispered in hacker circles in hushed, conspiratorial tones, it's who’s an informant and who isn’t. How do law enforcement and government agencies recruit hackers? What traits do they look for?
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Over-65s might be more tech savvy than we thought
Over-65s are much more tech savvy than we once realized, as a new report reveals that this age group was much better at spotting ads and scam emails than their younger counterparts.
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North Korean ‘IT worker scams’ take on female personas, expand to Europe, Japan
The North Korean hacker group Nickel Tapestry has found new ways to adapt its IT worker scams, including impersonating female applicants, and expanding its operations to target companies in Europe and Asia.
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Elon Musk, Ronaldo, and Binance are the bait in Facebook’s latest scam
A malware campaign is tearing through Facebook’s ad network, hijacking the names of legit crypto brands and celebrities' faces to con users into downloading spyware.
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Google adds scam-fighting AI to Chrome: will detect malicious websites
Google is adding an on-device artificial intelligence (AI) model to Chrome to fight scams. Gemini Nano, a large language model (LLM), will evaluate websites that users visit and alert if potential fraud is detected.
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Reddit just got catfished by AI – and now it’s policing humanity
Reddit was duped by artificial intelligence (AI) bots manipulating users. Now, it’s rolling out “prove you’re human” checks to protect its authenticity.
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Crypto investor loses $0.5M to scammers, helps uncover industrial-scale crypto theft scheme
A massive “industrial-scale cryptocurrency phishing operation” has been uncovered involving tens of thousands of lure pages, SEO manipulation, abuse of legitimate services, and victims with massive losses.
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Malwarebytes iOS app to start blocking Google ads directly on Safari
Malwarebytes announced that its iOS app will start blocking Google’s sponsored ads directly on the Safari browser.
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Novel scam spoofs CNN and impersonates Apple within one ad on X
Scammers on X (former Twitter) are running ads luring users with a fake “iToken” product. The new scam abuses the Apple brand, spoofs a landing page URL to show CNN, but ultimately leads users to a malicious website with a faux Tim Cook peddling a non-existent token.
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Your old router is likely to hide cybercriminals – FBI urges replacing it
The FBI warns that hackers abuse old router models to proxy their attacks and hide their tracks. Thirteen vulnerable end-of-life Linksys models were listed as an easy target for cybercriminals.
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Paws off my data: iOS cat game leak exposes 450K users
The iOS game left nearly half a million users exposed to hackers who could track them, hijack their Facebook accounts, or even weaponize the app’s own backend.
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