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Lazarus Group Deploys macOS Malware to Target Blockchain Engineers
Ali Raza
Last Updated: November 5, 2023
North Korean state-sponsored hackers have targeted the blockchain engineers from an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange through Discord. These developers were targeted…
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LastPass Breach Drains $4.4M Worth of Crypto Assets in a Day
Ali Raza
Last Updated: November 1, 2023
$4.4 million worth of crypto assets were stolen from more than 25 victims on October 25 due to the…
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Italy bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns
Abeerah Hashim
Last Updated: December 10, 2024
Since launching OpenAI’s advanced chatbot ChatGPT on November 2022, no western country has banned its use. Italy recently became the…
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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: December 3, 2024
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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GoDaddy was hacked as attackers installed malware on its servers
Nwachukwu Glory
Last Updated: November 15, 2023
GoDaddy, arguably the leading web hosting company, has revealed a multi-year security breach that allowed unknown third parties to access…
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