Security
Hetzner shocks users with tripling of VPS prices
Major cloud hosting provider Hetzner has sharply raised prices across its virtual server portfolio for the second time this year. The cheapest VPS (virtual private server) plan in the US, with 2 shared virtual cores and 2GB of RAM, now costs $20.49 per month, up 193%.
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More than 40 World Cup streaming sites caught pushing scam ad networks
World Cup fans who need to catch up with part or all of a match on the go, or who are trying to access coverage outside their home territory, are being warned about sites pushing free streams of live matches, as many are in the business of serving scams.
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Hackers boast of data dump involving 5.4 million Swedes, but there’s a catch
More than 5 million Swedes have allegedly been included in a newly advertised list on hacker forums, putting them at risk. If the dump is legitimate, of course.
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Does the jailbreak that got Anthropic’s Fable 5 pulled exist in every AI model?
After the US government slapped export controls on Anthropic, the company had no choice but to close access to Fable 5 and Mythos to everyone. But experts who saw the fateful vulnerability report allegedly describing how to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails now say the administration has massively overreacted because the jailbreak actually describes every model ever shipped.
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“We hit the UK hard:” 9 million targeted in Boots gift scam hosted on hacked government website
Nearly 9 million people were targeted in a phishing campaign impersonating UK retail giant Boots, offering free gifts and customer rewards to steal personal and financial information from unsuspecting consumers.
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If a blue dot shows up on your Android phone, Google is warning you that it knows your location
Android will add an additional privacy-related indicator. However, some users already find it annoying.
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Curl won’t accept security bug reports for a month: burned out by AI agents
The curl project is pausing all vulnerability reports for July 2026, citing the need for a vacation due to intense pressure from the AI-generated submissions. Only paid support contracts will retain access.
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ShinyHunters claims Kodak hack, threatens to leak 2.2M records
The ShinyHunters gang on Monday claims it has stolen more than 2.2 million customer and corporate records from Eastman Kodak, targeting the American photography giant as part of its latest “pay or leak” ransomware campaign.
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Google says Chinese-linked hackers stole defence and AI data from US and Canadian labs for a year
A Chinese-linked hacking group spent more than a year secretly stealing data from US and Canadian academic, medical and military research institutions, before being detected, Google said on Monday.
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Hackers demand $2M from Nintendo over alleged data breach
A threat actor is demanding $2 million from Nintendo after allegedly stealing a decade's worth of corporate data.
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Hackers claim massive Council of Europe breach: troves of personal data exposed
The gang is claiming a massive data breach that exposes nearly half a million HR and payroll records, as well as COE employee data such as names and home addresses.
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Over 73K accounts caught up in breach of France’s government messaging platform Tchap
According to DINUM, the digital affairs directorate of the French government, a total of 73,467 users of the French instant messaging service and collaboration tool Tchap have been affected by the recent breach.
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Poland to criminalise violent livestreaming with jail terms of up to 5 years
Polish lawmakers have backed new legislation aimed at tackling so-called “trash streaming”, introducing prison sentences of up to five years for broadcasting serious crimes such as murder or rape, as well as content involving animal cruelty or violence used to humiliate others.
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Hackers claim theft of source code from AI giant Dynatrace
A hacker claims to have stolen internal Dynatrace GitHub repositories, potentially exposing source code and the company's cloud infrastructure.
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ShinyHunters claim JCPenney retail data theft involving SSNs and payroll files
ShinyHunters has targeted JCPenney, issuing the company an ultimatum: release highly sensitive identity data publicly or face further attacks.
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Chinese hackers use fake FIFA sites to steal card data in Facebook-targeted scam
A Chinese-linked cybercrime operation is using fake FIFA World Cup ticket websites to monitor victims as they shop, harvest payment card details, and intercept security codes used by banks to verify transactions. The scam is using Facebook and Instagram as its main channels.
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Was New York Knicks owner breached? ShinyHunters say so
Madison Square Garden Sports (MSGS), the company behind the NBA’s New York Knicks basketball club and the NHL's New York Rangers, has been claimed by the notorious ShinyHunters hacker collective.
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Google links ShinyHunters to Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day extortion campaign targeting universities
Alphabet's cybersecurity unit Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group said Thursday they had identified an active compromise and extortion campaign targeting Oracle's PeopleSoft enterprise software, which they attributed to the hacking group ShinyHunters.
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VRChat data breach exposes 2.4M users, but they say it’s fake
VRChat, the online virtual world platform, allegedly exposed 2.4 million users in a data breach. However, the company says that it’s all fake.
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Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk says clinical trial patient data copied in cyberattack
Novo Nordisk said on Thursday it has identified a security incident in which certain information, including patient data from some clinical trials, was copied externally without authorization from its internal IT systems.
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