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Wipers from Russia’s most cut-throat hackers rain destruction on Ukraine

One of the world’s most ruthless and advanced hacking groups, the Russian state-controlled Sandworm, launched a series of destructive cyberattacks in the country’s ongoing war...

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

In turn, the delay in network state propagations spilled over to a network load balancer that AWS services rely on for stability. As a result,...

Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps

“In specific circumstances, due to a weakness in the Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) that is used, it is possible for an attacker to predict...

NSO permanently barred from targeting WhatsApp users with Pegasus spyware

A federal judge has ordered spyware maker NSO to stop using its Pegasus app to target or infect users of WhatsApp. The ruling, issued Friday...

Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”

Federal prosecutors have seized $15 billion from the alleged kingpin of an operation that used imprisoned laborers to trick unsuspecting people into making investments in...

Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal 2FA codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds....

That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this

The researchers added: “This campaign is notable in that it demonstrates how impactful smishing operations can be executed using simple, accessible infrastructure. Given the strategic...

Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks

Federal prosecutors charged a UK teenager with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and other crimes in connection with the network intrusions of 47 US companies...

Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack

Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to be the world’s biggest...

Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”

“This represented the first concrete step toward addressing WhatsApp’s fundamental data governance Failures,” the complaint stated. “Mr. Baig understood that Meta’s culture is like that...

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