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FTC comes down on Meta monetizing minors
In a release from the US Federal Trade Commission, the agency alleges Meta “repeatedly violated” privacy rules put...
Authorities seize 9 crypto exchanges used for money laundering
A joint operation conducted by the FBI and Ukrainian police seized 9 crypto exchanges used by...
The academic threat of juice jacking
Last month, the US FBI and Federal Communication Commissions issued new warnings about so-called juice jacking attacks. These warned...
Charming Kitten APT uses a new BellaCiao malware
Bitdefender has uncovered a new campaign targeting users in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and India,...
Messaging app update distributes malware
Researchers at ESET report that in January, an update for the popular messaging app Tencent QQ began distributing the MsgBot...
US policing use of AI for civil rights violations
On Tuesday, officials from several US government agencies warned financial firms and others that use of...
A call to standardize threat group naming
Last week, Microsoft’s security division announced changes to its name taxonomy for threat groups, moving from names of...
Energy sector in US, Europe hit by same supply chain attack as 3CX
Researchers from Symantec revealed Friday that trojanized software from the fintech company...
Microsoft 365 outage blocks access to web apps and services
Microsoft is investigating an outage that is blocking customers worldwide from accessing Microsoft 365 for...
NCSC warns of “new class” of Russian adversaries
This warning from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre highlights new risks seen over the last 18...
Ransomware comes for macOS
The massive LockBit ransomware operation traditionally designed its encryptors to target Windows, Linux and VMWare ESXi servers. However researchers at MalwareHunterTeam...
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