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Today's cyber news highlights significant developments in the ongoing battle against cybercrime and privacy issues. Microsoft has successfully dismantled a large criminal marketplace responsible for distributing over 1 billion phishing messages, showcasing the escalating threat of phishing-as-a-service. Meanwhile, Flock's CEO continues to advocate for surveillance technology despite mounting public concern over privacy implications, emphasizing its potential crime-fighting advantages. In product updates, Sophos has enhanced its ITDR capabilities to improve identity protection in an AI-driven landscape, focusing on Microsoft integration and quicker response times. These trends underline the dual challenges of combating cyber threats while navigating privacy and ethical considerations in technology deployment.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday dropped its case against SolarWinds and its chief information security officer over its handling of an alleged Russian cyberespionage campaign uncovered in 2020, an incident that penetrated at least nine federal agencies and hundreds of companies. T...
The widespread compromise is strikingly similar to a previous attack that originated at Salesloft Drift.
The post Hundreds of Salesforce customers hit by yet another third-party vendor breach appeared first on CyberScoop.
Salesforce posted a message on its website saying an investigation revealed that the activity âmay have enabled unauthorized access to certain customersâ Salesforce data through the appâs connection.â
The spyware vendor made those two arguments, among others, in a motion to stay the California court ruling.
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Researchers disclosed a WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B accounts. Meta has patched it to prevent this mass enumeration. A team of researchers at the University of Vienna found a WhatsApp flaw that could scrape 3.5 billion accounts. Meta has since patched the vulnerability to block this enumeration t...
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ImageMagick could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
A federal prosecutor alleged that one defendant boasted that his father âhad engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.â
In November 2025, the International Kiteboarding Organization suffered a data breach that exposed 340k user records. The data was subsequently listed for sale on a hacking forum and included email addresses, names, usernames and in many cases, the user's city and country.
The report, which is based on an investigation begun by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in 2017, provides an overview of what open-source information the FBI consults in such investigations.
Thailandâs Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau said an FBI tip that the âworld-class hackerâ was traveling to Thailand led to his arrest in Phuket.
The post Russian Hacking Suspect Wanted by the FBI Arrested on Thai Resort Island appeared first on SecurityWeek.
China-linked APT24 hackers have been using a previously undocumented malware called BadAudio in a three-year espionage campaign that recently switched to more sophisticated attack methods. [...]
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan recently used his AI avatar to open a quarterly earnings call. In the top right corner of the video, a small badge appeared: "CREATED WITH ZOOM AI COMPANION."
The post Zoomâs AI Avatar Watermark Is Security Theatre (And Attackers Already Know It) appeared first on Security B...
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