ChatGPT for Surveillance and Influence Campaigns
22
Feb
2025

OpenAI Bans Accounts Misusing ChatGPT for Surveillance and Influence Campaigns

Feb 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananDisinformation / Artificial Intelligence OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used…

Google Chrome
22
Feb
2025

Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout

Google continues its rollout of gradually disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in the Chrome web browser as…

Bybit Hack: $1.4B Stolen from World's 2nd Largest Crypto Exchange
22
Feb
2025

$1.4B Stolen from World’s 2nd Largest Crypto Exchange

In a major cybersecurity incident, Bybit, the world’s 2nd-largest crypto exchange suffered a $1.4 billion ETH hack from a cold…

DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online
21
Feb
2025

DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online

The dozens of USDS cuts last week hit teams like product management, design, and procurement. Kamens and other sources told…

Leaked Files Tie Chinese Tech Firm to Gov’t Censorship and Private Clients
21
Feb
2025

Leaked Files Tie Chinese Cybersecurity Firm to Government Censorship

TopSec data leak: 7000+ documents expose potential Chinese government surveillance and censorship practices. Learn about the key findings and implications….

Jane Devry
21
Feb
2025

Harnessing Agentic AI To Supercharge Security Awareness Training

Security awareness training has been steadily gaining traction and momentum as organizations have come to understand that cyberattacks mostly stem…

ACRStealer Malware Abuses Google Docs as C2 to Steal Login Credentials
21
Feb
2025

ACRStealer Malware Abuses Google Docs as C2 to Steal Login Credentials

The ACRStealer malware, an infostealer disguised as illegal software such as cracks and keygens, has seen a significant increase in…

Android
21
Feb
2025

SpyLend Android malware downloaded 100,000 times from Google Play

An Android malware app called SpyLend has been downloaded over 100,000 times from Google Play, where it masqueraded as a…

NSA Allegedly Hacked Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Claims
21
Feb
2025

NSA Allegedly Hacked Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Claims

Chinese cybersecurity entities have accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of orchestrating a cyberattack on Northwestern Polytechnical University, a…

Sitevision Auto-Generated Password Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Signing Key
21
Feb
2025

Sitevision Auto-Generated Password Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Signing Key

A significant vulnerability in Sitevision CMS, versions 10.3.1 and earlier, has been identified, allowing attackers to extract private keys used…

Apple withdraws encrypted iCloud storage from UK after government demands ‘back door’ access
21
Feb
2025

Apple withdraws encrypted iCloud storage from UK after government demands ‘back door’ access

Apple has withdrawn from providing its UK smartphone and computer users with encrypted cloud storage following a secret government order…

SPAWNCHIMERA Malware Exploits Ivanti Buffer Overflow Vulnerability by Applying a Critical Fix
21
Feb
2025

SPAWNCHIMERA Malware Exploits Ivanti Buffer Overflow Vulnerability by Applying a Critical Fix

In a recent development, the SPAWNCHIMERA malware family has been identified exploiting the buffer overflow vulnerability CVE-2025-0282 in Ivanti Connect…