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Microsoft Reveals macOS Vulnerability that Bypasses Privacy Controls in Safari Browser

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Microsoft has disclosed details about a now-patched security flaw in Apple’s Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) framework in macOS that has likely come under exploitation to get around a user’s privacy preferences and access data. The shortcoming, codenamed HM Surf by the tech giant, is tracked as CVE-2024-44133 (CVSS score: 5.5). It was addressed by Apple as […]

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AI girlfriend site breached, user fantasies stolen

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A hacker has stolen a massive database of users’ interactions with their sexual partner chatbots, according to 404 Media. The breached service, Muah.ai, describes itself as a platform that lets people engage in AI-powered companion NSFW chat, exchange photos, and even have voice chats. As you can imagine, data like this is very sensitive, so the

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INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa

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INTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud. Dubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said. One such threat involved a large-scale phishing scam targeting Swiss citizens that resulted in

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Ticketmaster Data Breach May Affect More Than 500 Million Customers. What to Know

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Ticketmaster, a subsidiary of Live Nation, suffered a data breach, which may impact millions of customers. Live Nation confirmed in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that its subsidiary Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. The filing stated that on May 20, the company noticed “unauthorized activity” within a database

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The Post Millennial hack leaked data impacting 26 million people

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Have I Been Pwned has added the information for 26,818,266 people whose data was leaked in a recent hack of The Post Millennial conservative news website. The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine belonging to the Human Events Media Group, which also operates the American ‘Human Events’ news platform. Earlier this month, both news platforms were hacked,

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Mega Facebook data breach sees Meta fined $277m

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There’s some bad news for Meta, in the form of a $277 million fine related to a data breach which impacted no fewer than 500 million users. The fine, issued by the Irish Data Protection Commission, is a result of the fallout from scraped data posted to a hacking forum in 2019. As The Guardian notes,

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Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

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Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the issue on November

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Major password manager suffers another security breach

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LastPass maintains that passwords remain safely encrypted. Password manager LastPass announced Wednesday it had suffered its second data breach in three months. CEO Karim Toubba said the company recently detected unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service that is shared by LastPass and affiliate GoTo. He said an investigation was immediately launched into the incident

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New ransomware encrypts files, then steals your Discord account

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The new ‘AXLocker’ ransomware family is not only encrypting victims’ files and demanding a ransom payment but also stealing the Discord accounts of infected users. When a user logs into Discord with their credentials, the platform sends back a user authentication token saved on the computer. This token can then be used to log in

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Worok hackers hide new malware in PNGs using steganography

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A threat group tracked as ‘Worok’ hides malware within PNG images to infect victims’ machines with information-stealing malware without raising alarms. This has been confirmed by researchers at Avast, who built upon the findings of ESET, the first to spot and report on Worok’s activity in early September 2022. ESET warned that Worok targeted high-profile victims,

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Microsoft Reveals macOS Vulnerability that Bypasses Privacy Controls in Safari Browser

AI girlfriend site breached, user fantasies stolen

INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa

Ticketmaster Data Breach May Affect More Than 500 Million Customers. What to Know

The Post Millennial hack leaked data impacting 26 million people

Mega Facebook data breach sees Meta fined $277m

Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

Major password manager suffers another security breach

New ransomware encrypts files, then steals your Discord account

Worok hackers hide new malware in PNGs using steganography

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