Following closely on the heels of the introduction of new tools designed to provide safety enhancements to WhatsApp users, Meta has announced that it has taken 6.8 million scam accounts off the platform in the first half of 2025.
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The news of Google’s own Salesforce hack is also accompanied by a warning that there is now more clear evidence that ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider have formally joined forces, and that ShinyHunters is escalating to launching a leak site to put added pressure on its data breach victims.
What OpenAI described as a "short-lived experiment" is now over, as the company will no longer allow Google and other search engines to index certain types of ChatGPT conversations.
The Scattered Spider ransomware gang has been grabbing headlines with a string of bold and high-profile cyber attacks. But researchers with Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) now believe that some of these attacks may have been misattributed, and that the similarly long-tenured ShinyHunters group may have instead been the culprits.
A new theoretical attack described by researchers with LayerX lays out how frighteningly simple it would be for a malicious or compromised browser extension to intercept user chats with LLMs and insert prompt injection attacks designed to exfiltrate data without the target being aware.
Aeroflot canceled 54 of its 260 scheduled flights for the day due to the cyber attack, and an undetermined number of others experienced some amount of delay. 22 outbound flights from Moscow were subsequently canceled the following day, along with 31 incoming flights operated by subsidiary Rossiya Airlines.
As the digital world rapidly advances, enterprise networks have become critical to business success. With increasing reliance on cloud platforms, hybrid work environments, and connected devices, safeguarding your enterprise network is more important than ever.
The massive 2023 cyber attack on Clorox can be traced to a negligent help desk employee at longtime contractor Cognizant, according to a new lawsuit filed by the company. Clorox is seeking a total sum of $380 million for breach of contract, lost sales and reputational damage, with $49 million of that in direct remediation.
Restrictions on ransomware payments have become common for government agencies around the world, but it is still fairly rare to see them extended to the public sector or local levels of government. The new UK rules would additionally require all business types that are not impacted to notify the government.
Vibe coding AI Replit put out some bad vibes by hallucinating components that it added to a project on its own, such as a database of 4,000 fictional people, ignored repeated orders, and eventually deleting an entire database.
