Police dismantles HeartSender cybercrime marketplace network
Law enforcement authorities in the United States and the Netherlands have seized 39 domains and associated servers used by the HeartSender phishing gang operating out…
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KuCoin to pay nearly $300 million in penalties after guilty plea
KuCoin’s operator, PEKEN Global Limited, pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and agreed to pay $297 million in penalties to settle charges in…
Backdoor found in two healthcare patient monitors, linked to IP in China
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that Contec CMS8000 devices, a widely used healthcare patient monitoring device, include a backdoor that quietly…
Google blocked 2.36 million risky Android apps from Play Store in 2024
Google blocked 2.3 million Android app submissions to the Play Store in 2024 due to violations of its policies that made them potentially risky for users.…
Ransomware attack disrupts New York blood donation giant
The New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the world’s largest independent blood collection and distribution organizations, says a Sunday ransomware attack forced it to…
New Syncjacking attack hijacks devices using Chrome extensions
A new attack called ‘Browser Syncjacking’ demonstrates the possibility of using a seemingly benign Chrome extension to take over a victim’s device. The new attack method,…
DeepSeek exposes database with over 1 million chat records
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model, has publicly exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information. The unsecured ClickHouse…
Major GitHub outage affects pull requests and other services
GitHub is mitigating an ongoing incident causing problems with multiple services, including performing pull requests, creating or viewing issues, and even viewing repositories and commits. “We…
The Advantages of Cloud-Based Remote Desktop versus RDP over VPN
Remote work is now an essential part of many businesses, requiring organizations to rethink how they provide secure, scalable, and efficient access to corporate resources.…
Microsoft lifts Windows 11 update block for PCs with gaming issues
Microsoft has removed a safeguard hold that prevented devices with Auto HDR enabled from installing the Windows 11 2024 Update due to gaming issues. Throughout…
Police seizes Cracked and Nulled hacking forum servers, arrests suspects
Europol and German law enforcement confirmed the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of 17 servers in Operation Talent, which took down Cracked and…
Time Bandit ChatGPT jailbreak bypasses safeguards on sensitive topics
A ChatGPT jailbreak flaw, dubbed “Time Bandit,” allows you to bypass OpenAI’s safety guidelines when asking for detailed instructions on sensitive topics, including the creation…