Italy fines Apple $116 million over App Store privacy policy issues
Italy’s competition authority (AGCM) has fined Apple €98.6 million ($116 million) for using the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework to abuse its dominant market…
Month: December 2025
Chinese Crypto Scammers on Telegram Are Fueling the Biggest Darknet Markets Ever
When black markets for drugs, guns, and all manner of contraband first sprang up on the dark web more than a decade ago, it seemed…
Pirate Group Anna’s Archive Copies 256M Spotify Songs in Data Scrape – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
In a surprising turn for the music world, a pirate activist group known as Anna’s Archive has announced that it successfully copied a huge amount…
Top 10 end user computing stories of 2025
The biggest event of 2025 in the PC market has been the end of support for Windows 10. It was positioned as the last major…
Japan Unveils New Cybersecurity Strategy For 2025–2030
The Japanese government has formally adopted a new cybersecurity strategy that will guide national policy over the next five years. The decision was approved at a cabinet…
China’s Kuaishou hit by breach as explicit content floods live-streaming rooms
Short-video platform Kuaishou Technology reported a major cyberattack to the police after a breach on Monday evening allowed explicit content to flood high-traffic live rooms…
New GhostLocker Tool that Uses Windows AppLocker to Neutralize and Control EDR
A new tool named GhostLocker has been released, demonstrating a novel technique to neutralize Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems by weaponizing the native Windows…
A year of Keeper Security!
Keeper Security, the provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords and passkeys, infrastructure secrets, remote connections and endpoints, had reflected on 2025 as…
UAE and Dubai’s tech ambitions in focus as Sheikh Hamdan meets Elon Musk
Dubai and the UAE’s ambitions to position themselves at the forefront of global technology development were underlined this week during a high-profile meeting between His…
Baker University says 2024 data breach impacts 53,000 people
Baker University has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to its network one year ago and stole the personal, health, and financial information…
Hackers Using ClickFix Technique to Hide Images within the Image Files
Threat actors have evolved their attack strategies by combining the deceptive ClickFix social engineering lure with advanced steganography techniques to conceal malicious payloads within PNG…
U.S. DoJ Seizes Fraud Domain Behind $14.6 Million Bank Account Takeover Scheme
Dec 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananFinancial Crime / Law Enforcement The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Monday announced the seizure of a web domain and database that…