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A newly discovered flaw in WhatsApp’s "View Once" feature allows recipients to bypass privacy protections to save and share media intended to disappear after a single viewing. The issue was formally identified by the Zengo X Research Team. WhatsApp launched the "View Once" feature in 2021 so

X, formerly known as Twitter, has permanently suspended the use of European Union (EU) user data in training its AI model, Grok. This comes following a legal challenge by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), demanding that X halt its AI data collection practices. The suspension, which took

In a recent campaign, GitHub comments are being used to distribute Lumma Stealer, a password-stealing malware. The campaign was first reported by a contributor to the teloxide Rust library, who shared on Reddit that multiple GitHub comments, disguised as fixes, were actually pushing malware.

Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password-protected database that contained thousands of records belonging to Confidant Health — an AI-powered platform offering mental health and addiction treatment. The database contained patient PII,

In an alarming series of cyberattacks, a North Korean hacking group known as Citrine Sleet exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Chromium-based browsers to steal cryptocurrency. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-7971, impacted popular browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge and was swiftly

Brazil's Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the ban on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The ruling, which has sparked global attention, centers on X’s failure to comply with Brazil's legal requirements, including the appointment of a local representative to address

A Russian state-sponsored hacker group, known as APT29 or "Cozy Bear," has been caught leveraging exploits initially developed by commercial spyware vendors NSO Group and Intellexa. This latest campaign, which ran from November 2023 to July 2024, targeted visitors to Mongolian government websites

vpnMentor’s Research Team observed a 1,600% increase in VPN usage in Brazil following the country’s blockade of social media platform X. After the legal dispute between X, formerly Twitter, and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes resulted in Musk’s decision to close X's operations in

Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, has been charged in France with a wide range of crimes, including complicity with the distribution of child pornography, drug trafficking, fraud, and refusal to provide information necessary to law enforcement. The charges follow investigations into how

In a significant cybersecurity breach, Young Consulting, a software solutions provider based in Atlanta, disclosed that the personal information of 954,177 individuals was compromised in a ransomware attack. The attack was reportedly conducted by the BlackSuit group on April 10, 2024, and targeted