Indian Court Orders Action to Block Proton Mail Over AI Deepfake Abuse Allegations
Apr 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Data Protection A high court in the Indian state of Karnataka has ordered the blocking of end-to-end encrypted email provider…
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New Reports Uncover Jailbreaks, Unsafe Code, and Data Theft Risks in Leading AI Systems
Various generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services have been found vulnerable to two types of jailbreak attacks that make it possible to produce illicit or dangerous…
WhatsApp Launches Private Processing to Enable AI Features While Protecting Message Privacy
Apr 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Protection Popular messaging app WhatsApp on Tuesday unveiled a new technology called Private Processing to enable artificial intelligence…
SentinelOne Uncovers Chinese Espionage Campaign Targeting Its Infrastructure and Clients
Cybersecurity company SentinelOne has revealed that a China-nexus threat cluster dubbed PurpleHaze conducted reconnaissance attempts against its infrastructure and some of its high-value customers. “We…
Google Reports 75 Zero-Days Exploited in 2024 — 44% Targeted Enterprise Security Products
Apr 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Vulnerability Google has revealed that it observed 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98…
Securing Microsoft Copilot with Reco
Find out how Reco keeps Microsoft 365 Copilot safe by spotting risky prompts, protecting data, managing user access, and identifying threats – all while keeping…
Malware Attack Targets World Uyghur Congress Leaders via Trojanized UyghurEdit++ Tool
Apr 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Malware In a new campaign detected in March 2025, senior members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) living in exile…
CISA Adds Actively Exploited Broadcom and Commvault Flaws to KEV Database
Apr 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Web Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two high-severity security flaws impacting Broadcom Brocade…
Breaking Down 5 Real Vulns
Not every security vulnerability is high risk on its own – but in the hands of an advanced attacker, even small weaknesses can escalate into…
Earth Kurma Targets Southeast Asia With Rootkits and Cloud-Based Data Theft Tools
Government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia have become the target of a “sophisticated” campaign undertaken by a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group called…
WooCommerce Users Targeted by Fake Patch Phishing Campaign Deploying Site Backdoors
Apr 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananWebsite Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging…
Hackers Exploit Critical Craft CMS Flaws; Hundreds of Servers Likely Compromised
Apr 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananWeb Application Security / Vulnerability Threat actors have been observed exploiting two newly disclosed critical security flaws in Craft CMS in zero-day…