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Secretary of State Rubio Impersonated With AI Deepfakes Targeting Officials

July 11, 2025

AI deepfakes were used to contact three foreign ministers, a US Governor, and a member of Congress around the middle of June via the Signal messaging app. Two of the officials received fake voicemail messages mocked up to use Rubio's voice, and another received an invite to join a chat.

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FBI Issues Alert Over Increased Conti Ransomware Attacks Targeting the Healthcare System and First Responder Networks

June 4, 2021

FBI warned of increased Conti ransomware attacks against the healthcare system and first responder networks At least 16 organizations were targeted.

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Study Warns That Shadow Code on External JavaScript Libraries Pose a Serious Supply Chain Risk

May 30, 2022

Shadow code may pose a serious supply chain risk. Sampling 4,300 websites and applications ranked by traffic, researchers discovered that each website had an average of 12 third-party scripts and three fourth-party scripts.

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DDoS Attack on Amazon Web Services Raises Cloud Safety Concerns

October 31, 2019

For nearly eight-hours, AWS DNS servers were hit by a sustained DDoS attack. The servers were essentially jammed such that their basic mitigations appeared to have little or no effect.

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Dell Confirms Security Breach After World Leaks Gang Releases 1.3 TB of Data, Company Disputes Claims

July 28, 2025

Dell has confirmed a security breach after the World Leaks ransomware cyber gang leaked 1.3 terabytes of data allegedly stolen from the company’s infrastructure.

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WhatsApp: “High Confidence” That Nearly 100 Journalists, Civil Society Workers Targeted by Paragon Spyware

February 10, 2025

WhatsApp told media outlets that it had "high confidence" that journalists and activists were targeted by Paragon spyware and that they were "possibly compromised." It did not provide names of people it believed to be compromised.”

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“Mother of All Breaches” Data Leak Pulls Together 26 Billion Records From Thousands of Prior Breaches

January 26, 2024

The 1.2 terabyte MOAB file is broken up into over 3,800 folders, each one representing a prior data leak that saw personal information or credentials make their way to the open internet. In total there are over 26 billion records.

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Are Privacy Issues and Data Abuses Really Just a Bug in the Facebook System?

May 14, 2018

In an effort to get out in front of the data privacy scandal threatening to engulf the company, Facebook recently announced a new data abuse bounty program, which promises to pay people who report data abuses. But is this new data abuse bounty program going to result in any real changes to data privacy on Facebook?

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China’s Digital Yuan Offers Privacy Protection for “Small Transactions”

April 5, 2021

The People’s Bank of China has announced that its variation of cryptocurrency, the "digital yuan," will allow anonymous transactions in small amounts in a bid to add at least a token amount of privacy protection.

Closeup of man holding a fake moustache showing Meta sued surveillance company for data scraping with fake accounts

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Surveillance Company Voyager Labs Sued by Meta for Data Scraping, Use of Fake Accounts

January 26, 2023

Meta is framing the lawsuit as an opening volley in a war against data scraping and invasive surveillance by law enforcement partners. The surveillance company has clearly gone farther than is usual given the creation of some 38,000 fake accounts.

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Secretary of State Rubio Impersonated With AI Deepfakes Targeting Officials

FBI Issues Alert Over Increased Conti Ransomware Attacks Targeting the Healthcare System and First Responder Networks

Study Warns That Shadow Code on External JavaScript Libraries Pose a Serious Supply Chain Risk

Dell Confirms Security Breach After World Leaks Gang Releases 1.3 TB of Data, Company Disputes Claims

WhatsApp: “High Confidence” That Nearly 100 Journalists, Civil Society Workers Targeted by Paragon Spyware

“Mother of All Breaches” Data Leak Pulls Together 26 Billion Records From Thousands of Prior Breaches

Are Privacy Issues and Data Abuses Really Just a Bug in the Facebook System?

China’s Digital Yuan Offers Privacy Protection for “Small Transactions”

Surveillance Company Voyager Labs Sued by Meta for Data Scraping, Use of Fake Accounts

Security flaw in Microsoft’s Analytics Platform Titan Exposes 17 Trillion Records

Meta Muse AI Assistant’s Zero-Day Vulnerability Could Enable Attackers to Inject Malware

New Disclosure of “Meddling” OpenAI Agents Includes Attacks on UN and US Government Websites

ShinyHunters Hacks the FBI in a Security Breach Exposing Personal Information of 38,000 People