OAIC Files Lawsuit Against Medibank Over 2022 Data Breach
The Australian privacy watchdog on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Medibank, the country’s largest private health insurer, for failing to protect its 9.7 million customers’…
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TikTok Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited By Hackers
Malicious actors recently hacked high-profile TikTok accounts of big companies and celebrities and exploited a zero-day vulnerability in TikTok’s direct messaging feature. This TikTok zero-day…
Researcher Finds Vulnerability In Kyber Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM)
A security researcher discovered an exploitable timing leak in the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) that’s in the process of being adopted by NIST as…
European Center For Digital Rights Believes Microsoft Intruded On Privacy Of Schoolchildren
noyb (None of Your Business), also known as the European Center for Digital Rights, has filed two complaints under Article 77 of the GDPR against…
Synnovis Ransomware Attack Impacts Several London Hospitals
Several major hospitals in London have faced service disruptions following a ransomware attack on a third-party responsible for providing pathology services. As a result, the…
Linux Espionage Threats Are Growing
Security companies have historically focused on espionage incidents related to Windows systems. This has led to them overlooking similar threats on Linux platforms, even though…
Australian Government Orders Chinese Divestment After Northern Minerals Cyberattack
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has mandated that several Chinese-linked investors divest their shares in Northern Minerals, a rare earth miner. The directive, grounded in foreign…
Russian Influence Campaign Targets 2024 Paris Olympics
Researchers from Microsoft have observed a year-long coordinated campaign by Russian threat actors to influence the public’s view of the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics. The…
Google Chrome For Desktop Vulnerabilities Fixed, Update Now
Google Chrome for Desktop has patched multiple vulnerabilities that might have allowed attackers to run arbitrary code on compromised PCs. The Indian Computer Emergency Response…
New Viper RAT Targets Android Phones
Dark web actors are advertising a new Android Remote Trojan called Viper RAT that targets Android devices. The threat actor, which goes by the same…
British Columbia Government Network Potentially Hacked
A recent series of cyberattacks observed on the British Columbia government networks from state hackers may have compromised the personal information of its employees, authorities…
Hugging Face Discloses Unauthorized Access To Spaces Platform
Hackers penetrated artificial intelligence (AI) company Hugging Face’s platform to access its user secrets, the company revealed in a blog post. The Google and Amazon-funded…