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Cloud, networking and internet
Website admins across the world bracing for impact following major PHP flaw reveal

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

PHP notifies the community of two critical RCE flaws, says patch is coming imminently.

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Data leak
State Bank of India reports cyberattack — thousands of customer records affected, here's what we know

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Someone leaked thousands of user records online, including many belonging to SBI customers.

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AI 'antidetect' browsers are making scams, fraud, and influence operations harder to spot

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

Browsers designed to help agencies are being abused to launch scam campaigns at scale.

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Block Blast mobile game
The dark side of 'free' mobile games — how developers reverse-engineer your patience to milk ad revenue

By Efosa Udinmwen Published

Block Blast reportedly earned $127 million from ads, but an investigation uncovered code allegedly manipulating difficulty, player profiling, and incentives to watch ads.

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A nightmare scenario for supermarkets: Hidden daily passwords and command injection flaws leave thousands of Danfoss supermarket systems open to remote takeover

By Efosa Udinmwen Published

Claroty researchers found 2,765 publicly accessible Danfoss refrigeration systems and three vulnerabilities involving hidden passwords, command injection, and web server manipulation.

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'Some agents exhibited unintended web-browsing behavior': Tencent admits AI agents it was testing made more than 2,600 attempts in 11 days to slip past Alibaba's map defenses, just to find out which zoo gate people use

By Rahim Amir Published

Researchers hid a message for a live fleet of rogue AI agents, and the agents wrote back.

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DeepSeek
DeepSeek AI tools banned from US government agency systems as rift with China grows

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

DeepSeek was labeled as carrying "multiple threat vectors".

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Millions of California students have sensitive data stolen — names, SSIDs, home addresses and more taken in attack on nonprofit

By Craig Hale Published

Data breach likely saw attackers obtain millions of students' PII via a simple password compromise, it seems.

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Think social media protects your data? Platforms have racked up $26 billion in privacy penalties since 2020

By Rene Millman Published

Social media giants have paid over $26 billion in privacy fines since 2020, with Meta responsible for 91% of the global total.

Social Media
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Chinese hacker hits over 100 company websites using AI agents — Deere and SharkNinja among top brands affected in attack

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

It seems the goal was to establish persistence and possibly steal money down the line.

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