by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 14, 2025 | IT Security
Mozilla is working on a built-in VPN for Firefox, with beta tests opening to select users shortly. According to a staff post on Mozilla Connect, the company’s idea-sharing platform, Firefox VPN is still an experimental feature in the early stages of development,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 14, 2025 | IT Security
The European Union’s new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague’s international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually. Jim Moore, an...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 13, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft is restricting access to Internet Explorer mode in Edge browser after learning that hackers are leveraging zero-day exploits in the Chakra JavaScript engine for access to target devices. The tech giant did not share too many technical details but said that...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 13, 2025 | IT Security
A large-scale botnet is targeting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services in the United States from more than 100,000 IP addresses. The campaign started on October 8 and based on the source of the IPs, researchers believe the attacks are launched by a multi-country...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 13, 2025 | IT Security
The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective – compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings – announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI’s seizure of its clearweb site. In characteristic fashion, the group issued...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 13, 2025 | IT Security
An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country’s data protection regulator ruled the software giant “illegally” tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data. noyb said the ruling [PDF] by...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 12, 2025 | IT Security
An ongoing smishing campaign is targeting New Yorkers with text messages posing as the Department of Taxation and Finance, claiming to offer “Inflation Refunds” in an attempt to steal victims’ personal and financial data. The Inflation Refund is an...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 11, 2025 | IT Security
Spanish Guardia Civil have dismantled the “GXC Team” cybercrime operation and arrested its alleged leader, a 25-year-old Brazilian known as “GoogleXcoder.” The GXC Team operated a crime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform offering AI-powered phishing kits, Android malware,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft has reminded customers again today that systems running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 23H2 will stop receiving security updates next month. This follows two other alerts in which the company asked users to upgrade their systems to the latest available...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-11371) in Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox products, which allows a local attacker to access system files without authentication. At least three companies have been targeted so far. Although a patch is...
