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Australia Bans Kaspersky Software Over National Security and Espionage Concerns

Australia Bans Kaspersky Software Over National Security and Espionage Concerns

Feb 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Data Protection Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national security concerns. “After considering threat and risk analysis,… 

Bybit Confirms Record-Breaking .46 Billion Crypto Heist in Sophisticated Cold Wallet Attack

Bybit Confirms Record-Breaking $1.46 Billion Crypto Heist in Sophisticated Cold Wallet Attack

Feb 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananFinancial Crime / Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit on Friday revealed that a “sophisticated” attack led to the theft of over $1.46 billion worth of cryptocurrency from one of its Ethereum cold (offline)… 

OpenAI Bans Accounts Misusing ChatGPT for Surveillance and Influence Campaigns

OpenAI Bans Accounts Misusing ChatGPT for Surveillance and Influence Campaigns

Feb 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananDisinformation / Artificial Intelligence OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used its ChatGPT tool to develop a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tool. The social media… 

Apple Drops iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection in the U.K. Amid Encryption Backdoor Demands

Apple Drops iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection in the U.K. Amid Encryption Backdoor Demands

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Protection / Encryption Apple is removing its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature for iCloud from the United Kingdom with immediate effect following government demands for backdoor access to encrypted user data.… 

Data Leak Exposes TopSec’s Role in China’s Censorship-as-a-Service Operations

Data Leak Exposes TopSec’s Role in China’s Censorship-as-a-Service Operations

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananSurveillance / Content Monitoring An analysis of a data leak from a Chinese cybersecurity company TopSec has revealed that it likely offers censorship-as-a-service solutions to prospective customers, including a state-owned enterprise in… 

Cybercriminals Can Now Clone Any Brand’s Site in Minutes Using Darcula PhaaS v3

Cybercriminals Can Now Clone Any Brand’s Site in Minutes Using Darcula PhaaS v3

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananDark Web / Cybercrime The threat actors behind the Darcula phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform appear to be readying a new version that allows prospective customers and cyber crooks to clone any brand’s legitimate… 

Learn How to Identify High-Risk Identity Gaps and Slash Security Debt in 2025

Learn How to Identify High-Risk Identity Gaps and Slash Security Debt in 2025

Feb 21, 2025The Hacker NewsIdentity Security / Threat Prevention In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, weak identity security isn’t just a flaw—it’s a major risk that can expose your business to breaches and costly downtime.… 

Cisco Confirms Salt Typhoon Exploited CVE-2018-0171 to Target U.S. Telecom Networks

Cisco Confirms Salt Typhoon Exploited CVE-2018-0171 to Target U.S. Telecom Networks

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Cisco has confirmed that a Chinese threat actor known as Salt Typhoon gained access by likely abusing a known security flaw tracked as CVE-2018-0171, and by obtaining legitimate… 

CISA Flags Craft CMS Vulnerability CVE-2025-23209 Amid Active Attacks

CISA Flags Craft CMS Vulnerability CVE-2025-23209 Amid Active Attacks

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananWeb Security / Vulnerability A high-severity security flaw impacting the Craft content management system (CMS) has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…