NY Business Council discloses data breach affecting 47,000 people
The Business Council of New York State (BCNYS) has revealed that attackers who breached its network in February stole the personal, financial, and health information…
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Nebraska man gets 1 year in prison for $3.5M cryptojacking scheme
A Nebraska man was sentenced to one year in prison for defrauding cloud computing providers of over $3.5 million to mine cryptocurrency worth nearly $1…
XenoRAT malware campaign hits multiple embassies in South Korea
A state-sponsored espionage campaign is targeting foreign embassies in South Korea to deploy XenoRAT malware from malicious GitHub repositories. According to Trellix researchers, the campaign has been…
Massive Allianz Life data breach impacts 1.1 million people
Hackers have stolen the personal information of 1.1 million individuals in a Salesforce data theft attack, which impacted U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life in July.…
ERMAC Android malware source code leak exposes banking trojan infrastructure
The source code for version 3 of the ERMAC Android banking trojan has been leaked online, exposing the internals of the malware-as-a-service platform and the operator’s infrastructure. The…
Over 800 N-able servers left unpatched against critical flaws
Over 800 N-able N-central servers remain unpatched against a pair of critical security vulnerabilities tagged as actively exploited last week. N-central is a popular platform…
UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison
A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this…
Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal
A recent ruling from Germany’s Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has revived a legal battle over whether browser-based ad blockers infringe copyright, raising fears about a…
Recent Windows updates may fail to install via WUSA
Microsoft has mitigated a known issue that caused Windows update failures when installing them from a network share using the Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA).…
OpenAI releases warmer GPT-5 personality, but only for non thinking model
OpenAI has confirmed it has begun rolling out a new warmer personality for GPT-5, but remember that it won’t be as warm as GPT-4o, which…
HR giant Workday discloses data breach amid Salesforce attacks
Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social…
Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses
OpenAI rival Anthropic says Claude has been updated with a rare new feature that allows the AI model to end conversations when it feels it…