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Google Warns Over Potential Malware on Google Calendar
Ali Raza
November 8, 2023
- Google has warned that hackers could potentially abuse its Google Calendar service to secretly send command...
- The threat uses "command and control" infrastructure to communicate with the malware after it is planted in...
- Google has urged companies to monitor their networks for suspicious activity and adopt "baselines for netwo... Read More
Lazarus Group Deploys macOS Malware to Target Blockchain Engineers
Ali Raza
November 5, 2023
North Korean state-sponsored hackers have targeted the blockchain engineers from an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange through…
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LastPass Breach Drains $4.4M Worth of Crypto Assets in a Day
Ali Raza
November 1, 2023
$4.4 million worth of crypto assets were stolen from more than 25 victims on October…
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Italy bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns
Abeerah Hashim
November 6, 2023
Since launching OpenAI’s advanced chatbot ChatGPT on November 2022, no western country has banned its…
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Dutch Judges rule Facebook violated data privacy rules
Nwachukwu Glory
Last Updated: November 6, 2023
The Data Privacy Stichting (DPS) filed the case against Facebook in 2019 with the support of the Dutch consumer group…
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TikTok is under investigation by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre
Abeerah Hashim
Last Updated: November 10, 2023
On Tuesday, the UK’s security minister, Tom Tugendhat, directed the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) to investigate whether they should…
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AI backlash prompts Discord to revise its privacy policy
Nwachukwu Glory
Last Updated: November 15, 2023
Recently, Discord announced five new AI features that will be coming to its platform powered by OpenAI and Midjourney, the…
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Malicious actors using AI-generated YouTube videos to spread infostealer malware, report
Abeerah Hashim
Last Updated: November 10, 2023
According to research conducted by CloudSEK as far back as November 2022, there has been a 2 to 3 times…
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China-linked hackers targeting unpatched SonicWall SMA devices with malware
Nwachukwu Glory
Last Updated: November 15, 2023
Chinese-linked hackers have been suspected of targeting unpatched SonicWall SMA devices with malware. This malware can reveal a collection of…
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US Govt’s trusted quantum-resistant encryption algorithm has a flaw, researchers find
Kinyua Njeri (Sam Kin)
Last Updated: November 20, 2023
A research group has exposed a weakness in CRYSTALS-Kyber, an encryption algorithm that the U.S. National Institute of Standards and…
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