Another social media platform API has been abused for data scraping. A listing offering 700 million LinkedIn profiles has appeared on an underground hacking forum.
Suspected Russian and Turkish attackers accuse account owners of copyright infringement, direct them to phishing pages to compromise accounts before demanding ransom from hacked Instagram account owners to restore access.
Meta has suspended its generative AI tools in Brazil indefinitely as it seeks talks with ANPD about the issue. ANPD has said that Meta must change its privacy policy to exclude a section related to the processing of personal data for generative AI training.
Microsoft has banned the developer accounts of high-profile open-source projects, leaving them unable to publish software updates, exposing Windows users to various cyber threats.
International law enforcement has taken down illicit proxy service RSOCKS, a Russian botnet that has been active since at least 2014 and compromised millions of devices.
Reasonable anonymous transactions have been proposed for the digital yuan, which is currently in testing in multiple regions of the country. PBOC officials have also promised to deliver the best privacy protection, though questions remain.
LockBit ransomware attack that severely hampered Royal Mail's international delivery system would have cost no less than $70 million, according to chats leaked by the attackers. The original ransom demand was $80 million.
Hive ransomware group claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on Tata Power and began leaking stolen data, including sensitive employee and company information after ransom negotiations had conclusively failed.
GRU-affiliated Russian hackers targeted 20 Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities in March 2024, Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has disclosed.
The UK government is once again leaning on Apple for unrestricted access to the cloud backup data of its users. Apple would not be able to warn users that the UK’s required backdoor had been implemented and that their encrypted iCloud data was no longer entirely safe.
