Category: CYBER SECURITY

France’s Interior Minister confirmed on Friday that the Ministry of the Interior was affected by a cyberattack that compromised its email servers.

A new email scam is abusing PayPal’s subscription system to send fake purchase alerts through real PayPal emails.

A major data breach at credit check company 700Credit has exposed the personal information of at least 5.6 million people across the United States.

Apple and Google have rolled out multiple software updates after discovering a hacking campaign that targeted an unknown number of users across their platforms.

An international anti-piracy group has taken down one of India’s most popular illegal streaming platforms, which had been offering free movies and TV shows to millions of people for the last two years.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined LastPass £1.2 million after investigators found the company failed to use proper security measures, allowing attackers to steal personal information and encrypted password vaults belonging to up to 1.6 million UK users.

Notepad++ has released version 8.8.9 to fix a security issue in its WinGUp update tool after users and researchers reported that the updater was pulling malicious files instead of official update packages.

Google has released an emergency security update to fix another Chrome zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in the wild. This marks the eighth zero-day flaw patched in Chrome so far this year.

A new phishing kit called Spiderman is being used by cybercriminals to target customers of several European banks and cryptocurrency services.

The U.S. Justice Department has announced two indictments against Ukrainian national Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, also known as Vika, Tory, and SovaSonya, for her alleged involvement in major cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure around the world.

Truecaller has introduced a new feature called Family Protection as the company expands its focus beyond caller identification to help tackle the rise in scams targeting entire households.

The FBI is warning the public about a growing scam where criminals take photos shared on social media, alter them, and use them as fake proof of life images during virtual kidnapping attempts.

Africa is confronting a fast-growing cybercrime problem, with Nigeria emerging as a key hub for these illegal activities, according to recent reports.

A major AI image generator leak exposed over one million sensitive files, raising serious privacy, security, and deepfake misuse concerns.

U.S. prosecutors have charged two brothers from Virginia with plotting to steal sensitive information and destroy government databases after they were fired from their contracting jobs.

Russia’s telecommunications regulator, Roskomnadzor, has blocked access to Apple’s FaceTime and Snapchat, citing concerns that the platforms are being used to coordinate terrorist activities.

Freedom Mobile, Canada’s fourth-largest wireless carrier, has confirmed a data breach after attackers broke into its customer account management platform and accessed personal information belonging to an undisclosed number of customers.

Microsoft has quietly taken steps to weaken a high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability that has been actively exploited by numerous state-sponsored hacking groups and cybercrime gangs in zero-day attacks.