by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
In today’s hyper-connected world, cyber threats are more sophisticated and frequent than ever – ransomware attacks, data breaches, social engineering scams, and advanced persistent threats targeting everyone from individuals to Fortune 500 companies. Right...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
Google is updating the Chrome web browser to automatically revoke notification permissions for websites that haven’t been visited recently, to reduce alert overload. While Google Chrome’s Safety Check tool already removes access to other permissions, such...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
Apple is announcing a major expansion and redesign of its bug bounty program, doubling maximum payouts, adding new research categories, and introducing a more transparent reward structure. Since the program launched in 2020, Apple has awarded $35 million to 800...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed – via their Telegram group – to be a real-world attack. Forescout said the short-lived TwoNet hacktivist...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems. In a blog post, Redmond said a cybercrime crew it tracks as Storm-2657 has been targeting university...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor’s office. The site,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities. According to disclosure emails seen by The Register sent to union members who work as scientists, engineers, techies, and managers, the attack took...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 10, 2025 | IT Security
The FBI has seized last night all domains for the BreachForums hacking forum operated by the ShinyHunters group mostly as a portal for leaking corporate data stolen in attacks from ransomware and extortion gangs. Law enforcement authorities in the U.S. and France...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 9, 2025 | IT Security
A new Android spyware called ClayRat is luring potential victims by posing as popular apps and services like WhatsApp, Google Photos, TikTok, and YouTube. The malware is targeting Russian users through Telegram channels and malicious websites that appear legitimate....
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 9, 2025 | IT Security
Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. Researchers at the US AI firm, working with the UK AI Security Institute, Alan Turing Institute, and other academic institutions, said today that it takes only...
