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New CISA/NSA Joint Report Reiterates Call for Memory-Safe Languages

June 30, 2025

A new CISA-NSA joint report follows many calls by both members of the cybersecurity industry and government agencies for a transition to memory-safe languages like Rust, Ruby, Java and C# due to their inherent minimization of memory-related classes of vulnerabilities.

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ChainIQ Cyber Attack Causes Data Leak Impacting UBS, Pictet, KPMG and Others

June 26, 2025

A massive data leak stemming from a cyber attack on a third-party subcontractor has affected Swiss banks UBS and Pictet, as well as over a dozen other multinational companies, potentially including auditing firm KPMG.

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U.S. Authorities Seize over $225 Million from “Pig Butchering” Crypto Investment Scams

June 26, 2025

The DOJ, the FBI, and the U.S. Secret Service have collaborated with private partners to execute the largest seizure of crypto assets related to pig butchering investment scams.

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Cyber Scammers Take Out Google Ads to Pass Fake Support Numbers for Actual Websites of Bank of America, Microsoft, Netflix and More

June 26, 2025

Apparently numerous of these companies have a website search feature that will list what is already printed within a URL linking from the ad to the page. In this case, that means that the search bar is pre-filled with fake support numbers when the target arrives at the page.

Data Protection News

Reddit Sues Anthropic Over Unauthorized AI Training

June 23, 2025

The Reddit suit claims that Anthropic began regularly scraping the site in December 2021. After being asked to stop, Anthropic issued a public statement in July 2024 indicating that it had stopped all crawling of Reddit for AI training data.

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“Scattered Spider” Threat Group Has Moved on To Targeting US Insurance Companies

June 23, 2025

Google Threat Intelligence Group is now reporting "multiple intrusions" at US-based insurance firms by Scattered Spider, which in some cases has caused outages and business disruptions.

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Mysterious Hoard of Leaked Login Credentials Contains 16 Billion Passwords

June 23, 2025

A new set of 16 billion login credentials is not an intentional public leak or data breach. It was accidentally exposed to the internet via improperly secured Elasticsearch and object storage instances for a short period, but long enough for security researchers to hit upon it.

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Car Sharing Platform Zoomcar Hit by a Massive Data Breach, Impacting Approximately 8.4 Million People

June 20, 2025

Car-sharing giant Zoomcar has disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 8.4 million people after a threat actor contacted the company claiming to have accessed its data.

Data Privacy News

Meta AI Adds Warning That All Prompts, Including Those With Personal Information, Could be Made Public

June 20, 2025

Users of Meta AI may have been ambushed by the fact that no other chatbot offers anything quite like its chat-sharing Discover feed, and that it seems such a privacy-invasive idea that it is baffling a major company would actually include it at all let alone as a standard opted-in feature.

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Amazon’s Whole Foods Distributor United Natural Foods Hit by a Cyber Attack that Disrupted Operations

June 20, 2025

Amazon’s Whole Foods distributor, United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI), suffered a cyber attack that forced the company to shut down some IT systems, disrupting operations, including ordering and distribution.

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New CISA/NSA Joint Report Reiterates Call for Memory-Safe Languages

ChainIQ Cyber Attack Causes Data Leak Impacting UBS, Pictet, KPMG and Others

U.S. Authorities Seize over $225 Million from “Pig Butchering” Crypto Investment Scams

Cyber Scammers Take Out Google Ads to Pass Fake Support Numbers for Actual Websites of Bank of America, Microsoft, Netflix and More

Reddit Sues Anthropic Over Unauthorized AI Training

“Scattered Spider” Threat Group Has Moved on To Targeting US Insurance Companies

Meta AI Adds Warning That All Prompts, Including Those With Personal Information, Could be Made Public

Amazon’s Whole Foods Distributor United Natural Foods Hit by a Cyber Attack that Disrupted Operations

Leak of Microsoft Meeting Documents Indicates Company Is Struggling to Keep Up With Security Vulnerabilities Uncovered by Mythos

Cyber Attack by Suspected Iranian Hackers Hits 36 Minnesota Water Utilities, Causing Outages

Feds Warn About Iranian Hackers Expanding the List of Targeted PLCs to Compromise Critical Infrastructure

Out-of-Control AI Agent Strikes Again, Hacks Accounts at Four Additional Services