by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 26, 2025 | IT Security |
A malicious PyPi package named ‘automslc’ has been downloaded over 100,000 times from the Python Package Index since 2019, abusing hard-coded credentials to pirate music from the Deezer streaming service. Deezer is a music streaming service available in...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 26, 2025 | IT Security |
Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker says her company will withdraw from countries that force messaging providers to allow law enforcement officials to access encrypted user data, as Sweden continues to mull such plans. Whittaker said Signal intends to exit Sweden should its...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 25, 2025 | IT Security |
The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service has added over 284 million accounts stolen by information stealer malware and found on a Telegram channel. HIBP founder Troy Hunt says he found 284,132,969 compromised accounts while analyzing 1.5TB of stealer...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 25, 2025 | IT Security |
Chinese spies reportedly broke into the US Republication National Committee’s Microsoft-powered email and snooped around for months before being caught. According to a Wall Street Journal report that cites “people familiar with the matter,” the...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 25, 2025 | IT Security
A hacker claims to have stolen thousands of internal documents with user records and employee data after breaching the systems of Orange Group, a leading French telecommunications operator and digital service provider. The threat actor published on a hacker forum...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 25, 2025 | IT Security
Analysis AI models like OpenAI o1/o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking can mimic human reasoning through a process called chain of thought. That process, described by Google researchers in 2022, involves breaking the prompts put to AI models into a series of...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 24, 2025 | IT Security
OpenAI says it blocked several North Korean hacking groups from using its ChatGPT platform to research future targets and find ways to hack into their networks. “We banned accounts demonstrating activity potentially associated with publicly reported Democratic...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 24, 2025 | IT Security
Partner Content Security can feel like fighting a losing battle, but it doesn’t have to be. As critical gaps are left exposed, breaches are on the rise. This is the case despite ongoing investments in defensive technologies, such as firewalls, EDRs, SIEMs and...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 23, 2025 | IT Security
Google Cloud has introduced quantum-safe digital signatures to its Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), making them available in preview. The tech giant says this initiative aligns with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST)...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 22, 2025 | IT Security
An ongoing PayPal email scam exploits the platform’s address settings to send fake purchase notifications, tricking users into granting remote access to scammers For the past month, BleepingComputer and others [1, 2] have received emails from PayPal stating,...
