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Elon Musk’s X has been hit by three waves of outages since this morning, which the billionaire claims was due to a cyberattack. According to outage tracking site DownDetector, the problems began around 6 am ET when up to 20,538 Read More …
New York state sued Allstate on Monday, accusing the insurer’s National General unit of failing to report a data breach that exposed drivers’ license numbers, and not developing reasonable safeguards to protect policyholders’ private information. The lawsuit by New York Read More …
There are more and more sites that use a clipboard hijacker and instruct victims on how to infect their own machine. I realize that may sound like something trivial to steer clear from, but apparently it’s not because the social Read More …
Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications (NTT Com) has confirmed that hackers accessed the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers during a February cyberattack, affecting an as-yet-unknown number of individuals. The Tokyo-based NTT Com, which provides phone and network tech to Read More …
A new botnet dubbed “Eleven11bot” has emerged, delivering what security researchers believe are the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ever recorded. The botnet, primarily composed of compromised webcams and video recorders, has triggered widespread service disruptions and ignited a debate Read More …
Cisco has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in its Secure Client for Windows. Secure Client is Cisco’s endpoint virtual private network (VPN) solution. CVE-2025-20206 has a CVSSv3 score of 7.1 and if exploited could allow an authenticated, Read More …
Among the most significant events in the AI world in early 2025 was the release of DeepSeek-R1 – a powerful reasoning large language model (LLM) with open weights. It’s available both for local use and as a free service. Since Read More …
The U.S. Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has taken down and seized the website of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with darknet markets and ransomware hackers. On Thursday, the official Read More …
A U.S.-based independent cybersecurity journalist has declined to comply with a U.K. court-ordered injunction that was sought following their reporting on a recent cyberattack at U.K. private healthcare giant HCRG. Law firm Pinsent Masons, which served the February 28 court Read More …
When an organization is subject to a Business Email Compromise (BEC), a single email could result in substantial monetary losses. Threat actors employing such tactics could employ different techniques, ranging from simple to advanced, and have seen increased activities yearly. Read More …
