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Hackers Using Deepfake Videos of YouTube’s CEO to Steal Creators’ Account Credentials

March 14, 2025

Malicious actors are using deepfake videos impersonating YouTube’s CEO to steal users’ credentials in a multi-month phishing campaign. The attackers sent private videos to targeted users via legitimate-looking emails, warning them that YouTube was changing its monetization policies.

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Dutch Group Calls for Scrutiny of Palantir Over Opaque Partnerships With EU Law Enforcement Agencies, Possible Privacy Violations

November 25, 2020

SOMI contends that Palantir could be participating in both knowing and unknowing privacy violations based on its involvement with "predictive policing" technologies.

LastPass password manager mobile app on phone screen showing security breach

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Security Breach at Password Manager LastPass as Hackers Steal Source Code and Proprietary Information

August 30, 2022

Recent security breach at password manager LastPass does not appear to be an immediate threat to the encrypted vaults that customers use to store their passwords, but the hackers may have made off with source code and proprietary information.

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Companies That Experience a Data Breach Will Underperform the Stock Market Over the Long Run

November 14, 2019

A study was done on the stock market performance of 28 companies that suffered a massive data breach. Even though they do underperform over the long run but not as much as one might think.

Close up of a chimpanzee covering face showing privacy infringement by facial recognition system

Data Privacy News

Wildlife Park in China Fined for Privacy Infringement, Prompted by Citizen Concerns About New Facial Recognition System

December 4, 2020

A wildlife park in Hangzhou has landed in some legal trouble after implementing a facial recognition system. A court agreed the sudden switch to this system constitutes privacy infringement.

Unknown hacker in handcuffs on the street showing DDoS-for-Hire

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FBI and Europol Seizes Nearly 50 DDoS-for-Hire Platforms and Charged Six Administrators

December 22, 2022

The FBI and Europol seized 48 internet domains for DDoS-for-hire services in a multi-prong operation, charged six administrators with cybercrimes, and obtained customer databases.

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New Cybersecurity Laws Coming for UK MSPs

December 8, 2022

UK MSPs will be brought under the same cybersecurity laws that govern essential services, such as critical infrastructure and health care. The move stems in large part from an increasing focus on MSPs by the most advanced nation-state security actors.

Screen with AI icons showing how AI will take over privacy tech

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AI Predicted to Take Over Privacy Tech

March 10, 2020

More than 40% of privacy tech solutions aimed at ensuring legal compliance are predicted to rely on AI over the course of the next three years says Gartner analysts.

Bug on circuit board showing libwebp security vulnerability

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Documented libwebp Security Vulnerability Looks to Be Part of Pegasus BLASTPASS Attack Chain

October 5, 2023

A security vulnerability that was initially documented as a Chrome bug is likely part of the attack chain employed by NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, and has been revised as a critical libwebp flaw in a new CVE ID filed by Google.

Concept of leaky software data with a tap sticking out showing largest email data breach in history

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Largest Leak in History: Email Data Breach Exposes Over Two Billion Personal Records

April 8, 2019

Thanks to some unsecured public-facing databases, Verifications.io email data breach has set a new record for leaking 2 billion personal records which can be useful for identity theft and scams.

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Hackers Using Deepfake Videos of YouTube’s CEO to Steal Creators’ Account Credentials

Dutch Group Calls for Scrutiny of Palantir Over Opaque Partnerships With EU Law Enforcement Agencies, Possible Privacy Violations

Security Breach at Password Manager LastPass as Hackers Steal Source Code and Proprietary Information

Companies That Experience a Data Breach Will Underperform the Stock Market Over the Long Run

Wildlife Park in China Fined for Privacy Infringement, Prompted by Citizen Concerns About New Facial Recognition System

FBI and Europol Seizes Nearly 50 DDoS-for-Hire Platforms and Charged Six Administrators

New Cybersecurity Laws Coming for UK MSPs

AI Predicted to Take Over Privacy Tech

Documented libwebp Security Vulnerability Looks to Be Part of Pegasus BLASTPASS Attack Chain

Largest Leak in History: Email Data Breach Exposes Over Two Billion Personal Records

Self-Propagating Malware ChainDrop Hits Over 400 NPM Packages in Massive Supply Chain Attack

Russian Hackers Exploit Hotel Wi-Fi Networks to Compromise Microsoft 365 Accounts

Claude’s Great Escape: Anthropic AI Models Join OpenAI Agents in Hacking Their Way Out of Sandboxes

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