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Chinese Hackers May Have Accessed the Phone Data of Donald Trump and JD Vance

November 7, 2024

Chinese hackers have attempted to interfere in US elections before. Anonymous official sources have spoken out claiming that this year's free-ranging espionage campaign is seeking phone data from senior officials and leading candidates regardless of party affiliation.

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Data Protection News

Google to Pay Record €50 Million GDPR Fines as CNIL Draws Lines in the Sand

January 30, 2019

Google received €50 million in GDPR fines from French regulator CNIL for failing to adequately inform users about their data collection practices, and not giving users enough control over how their information is used. What are the lessons learnt?

Data Privacy News

Cambridge Analytica Scandal Slowly Coming to a Close as Meta Agrees to $725 Million Settlement

January 4, 2023

Up to 87 million Facebook accounts had user data inappropriately accessed during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a weakness in the platform's API was used to harvest protected profile and activity information.

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Colonial Pipeline Hack Connected to Password Leak of 8.4 Billion Accounts; Attackers Got in via an Old VPN Account

June 14, 2021

A new password leak, the largest to date, contains over 8.4 billion credentials among which may have been the account used to get into Colonial Pipeline's network.

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Cyber Security News

ICO Fines Capita £14 Million Over Data Breach That Exposed the Personal Information of 6 Million People

October 21, 2025

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined outsourcing firm Capita £14 million ($18.8M) for its alleged failure to prevent a data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of people.

Keys on hook with opened padlocks on keyboard showing polymorphic phishing attacks making up almost half of phishing attempts

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Polymorphic Phishing Attacks Now Make Up Almost Half of All Phishing Attempts

June 18, 2019

Polymorphic phishing attacks are highly effective as they use randomization of email components which are hard to be detected by signature-based email security tools.

Google building showing API keys exploited for Gemini AI

Cyber Security News

Researchers Warn Benign Google API Keys Could be Exploited to Rack Up Gemini AI Bills

March 5, 2026

Researchers with Truffle Security are warning that old and seemingly benign Google API keys might now be weaponized by threat actors after gaining Gemini AI authorization permissions, in a destructive attack that could target a victim's wallet.

Dollar banknotes on a laptop showing BlackByte ransomware gang's data leak site

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BlackByte Ransomware Group Adds New “Feature” to Data Leak Site With Tiered Payment Options

August 24, 2022

The BlackByte ransomware gang's "2.0" reboot of their data leak site sports a new "feature" for its victims: a tiered payment system that allows for smaller payments to delay publication of sensitive data, or to simply download and recover it prior to having it dumped for public viewing.

View of the Nations Park in Lisbon showing ransomware attack on media company

Cyber Security News

Ransomware Attack on Portuguese Media Company Impresa Compromised AWS Account, Disrupted Expresso Newspaper and SIC TV Stations

January 13, 2022

Lapsus$ cybercrime gang claimed responsibility for the Impresa group ransomware attack by defacing the media company’s website and tweeting from its verified Twitter account.

Cyber Security News

Ransomware Attack Reported at Insurance Giant AXA One Week After It Changes Cyber Insurance Policies in France

May 25, 2021

AXA made news earlier in the month for opting to drop ransomware payment coverage from new cyber insurance policies in France. Operations in Asia were subsequently hit by a ransomware attack.

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Chinese Hackers May Have Accessed the Phone Data of Donald Trump and JD Vance

Cambridge Analytica Scandal Slowly Coming to a Close as Meta Agrees to $725 Million Settlement

Colonial Pipeline Hack Connected to Password Leak of 8.4 Billion Accounts; Attackers Got in via an Old VPN Account

ICO Fines Capita £14 Million Over Data Breach That Exposed the Personal Information of 6 Million People

Polymorphic Phishing Attacks Now Make Up Almost Half of All Phishing Attempts

Researchers Warn Benign Google API Keys Could be Exploited to Rack Up Gemini AI Bills

BlackByte Ransomware Group Adds New “Feature” to Data Leak Site With Tiered Payment Options

Ransomware Attack on Portuguese Media Company Impresa Compromised AWS Account, Disrupted Expresso Newspaper and SIC TV Stations

Ransomware Attack Reported at Insurance Giant AXA One Week After It Changes Cyber Insurance Policies in France

Data Breach Impacts Times Car Ride-Sharing Service as Ransomware Attack Hits Railway Operator Keio

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