Sep 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananGDPR / Data Privacy The French data protection authority has fined Google and Chinese e-commerce giant Shein $379 million (€325 million) and $175 million (€150 million), respectively, for violating cookie rules. Both…
Sep 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added two security flaws impacting TP-Link wireless routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, noting that there…
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Social Engineering Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new malicious packages on the npm registry that make use of smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain to carry out malicious actions on…
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Threat actors are attempting to leverage a newly released artificial intelligence (AI) offensive security tool called HexStrike AI to exploit recently disclosed security flaws. HexStrike AI, according to…
In January 2025, cybersecurity experts at Wiz Research found that Chinese AI specialist DeepSeek had suffered a data leak, putting more than 1 million sensitive log streams at risk. According to the Wiz Research team,…
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Vulnerability Google has shipped security updates to address 120 security flaws in its Android operating system as part of its monthly fixes for September 2025, including two issues that…
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cyber Espionage An Iran-nexus group has been linked to a “coordinated” and “multi-wave” spear-phishing campaign targeting the embassies and consulates in Europe and other regions across the world. The…
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Network Security Cloudflare on Tuesday said it automatically mitigated a record-setting volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). “Over the past few weeks,…
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Mobile Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a high-severity security flaw impacting TP-Link TL-WA855RE Wi-Fi Ranger Extender products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)…
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Threat Intelligence, Salesloft on Tuesday announced that it’s taking Drift temporarily offline “in the very near future,” as multiple companies have been ensnared in a far-reaching supply chain attack…