All news on the topic: Cybersecurity
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British farmers "dangerously exposed" to Chinese hacking through tractors and farming technology
British farmers are "dangerously exposed" to Chinese hacking as Beijing uses tractors to spy on UK food security, a new report has detailed.
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$20 million in losses and a massive data leak: fraudster Serguey Asael Shinder scrubs the internet of traces of his IT scheme
Serguey Asael Shinder, an IT entrepreneur and organizer of a large-scale scheme involving the fictitious hiring of programmers, the withdrawal of funds, and the leaking of classified data, is actively scrubbing the internet of any traces of his activities.
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Foreign governments are targeting senior EU officials in messaging app hacks
Cyber spies use custom lures to hack “high-ranking officials,” EU’s internal cyber unit warns.
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Iranian cyber attack on power plant was "warning shot" amid threat to critical British national infrastructure
A UK power generator was forced to shut down for four days following a cyber attack linked to Iran.
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Hackers put sensitive French tax data of 700,000 people up for sale online
French authorities are investigating a series of major cyberattacks after a hack of the Ministry of Public Action and Accounts compromised the personal and financial data of nearly 700,000 individuals and businesses.
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Trezor data breach exposes home addresses of nearly 12,000 crypto wallet buyers
The ShipMonk leak tied thousands of crypto users to their delivery locations as violent crypto attacks and home invasions rise.
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US charges eight more Iranians over alleged global hacking campaign linked to Tehran
U.S. prosecutors have charged eight additional Iranians in an alleged state-linked hacking campaign that targeted universities, companies and government agencies worldwide.
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FBI warns hackers are targeting social media accounts to steal intimate photos and videos
You shouldn’t store any sexually explicit photos or videos on social media accounts or other platforms that are accessible via the internet. Doing so makes you a target for hackers.
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How Belarusian businessman Andrei Shimanovich built an app empire shadowed by spyware concerns
Which apps with millions of users are linked to Shimanovich – and why cybersecurity experts describe them as dangerous. In which offshore jurisdictions Shimanovich established his companies – and which notorious figures did he collaborate with.
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Russian hackers hijack hotel WiFi networks to spy on business travelers, Microsoft warns
Russian hackers have hijacked hotel and conference WiFi networks worldwide, using fake login portals and software updates to infect travelers with malware and steal sensitive data, Microsoft warned Friday.
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AI now drives 55% of cybercrime across Africa, INTERPOL warns
AI now powers more than half of reported cybercrimes across 26 African nations as phishing and mobile fraud transition into industrialized criminal enterprises, according to INTERPOL.
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Coldcard firmware vulnerability exposes thousands of Bitcoin wallets in $86m breach
A misconfigured macro in Coldcard firmware silently weakened seed entropy for five years, resulting in 1,367 BTC stolen across 4,585 addresses.
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Data of 100,000 United Kingdom police officers leaked after cyberattack on law enforcement database
Cyberattack targeting law enforcement database follows breach last week of Department for Education records
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Lithuania reviews Belarusian businessman’s residency after app security investigation
Following an investigation by OCCRP and Buro into apps secretly sending data to Russia and Belarus, Lithuania is weighing the legal status of the Belarusian businessman behind them.
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UK Education Department confirms cyberattack exposing 607,000 records
Hackers have obtained more than half a million pieces of data in a cyber-attack on the Department for Education (DfE) in England.
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AI model uncovers hundreds of Microsoft vulnerabilities in looming cybersecurity race
On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing.
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Hugging Face says OpenAI’s AI models carried out 17,600 hacking actions during cyberattack
The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached.
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Belarusian spyware co-founder linked to apps sending user data to Belarus and Russia
Mobile apps that appear to be Lithuanian were developed by a Belarusian company, raising risks that exiled activists could be surveilled by security agents from the authoritarian country.
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OpenAI says AI agent escaped testing environment and hacked Hugging Face
An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of a tech startup, the company said.
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Russian FSB-licensed password manager used by EU public bodies, investigation claims
As Europe pours resources into security, innovation, and support for Ukraine, access to critical data may still be in hands of software with Russian roots. Passwork, a password manager licensed by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), is used by organisations linked to the EU public sector.
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Oracle exploit drains up to $24m from Ostium liquidity vault in five-minute attack
Ostium, an on-chain perpetuals trading platform, said a five-minute security incident caused losses from its public liquidity vault. Security firms estimated the exploit at up to $24 million.
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Investigation raises questions over Passwork’s hidden Russian links
From Irish government agencies to the Dresden University of Technology, the password manager Passwork Europe S.L. boasts a range of high-profile European clients who use its software to store the digital keys to their organizations.
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EPPO indicts 15 suspects over €3.5m EU education fraud scheme in Portugal
The EPPO in Portugal indicted 12 individuals and three companies for defrauding RRF-funded public education projects.
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Founders of IRIS C2: a cybersecurity startup linked to far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted fraudsters
A cybersecurity startup offering millions for zero-day flaws is run by two convicted felons with a history of operating fake intelligence companies under false names.
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Russia could buy influence in Britain for just £25m, former diplomat warns
I’m a recovering diplomat. For the last decade of my career I focused on cognitive influence. That work began in earnest for me following Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014, when I started working on the Russian file with an emphasis on cognitive influence.
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