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The US government has imposed new sanctions on Israeli spyware company Intellexa, stepping up its efforts to combat the misuse of commercial spyware technology. Intellexa, known for developing the invasive "Predator" spyware, has been linked to international surveillance operations targeting

Payment processor Slim CD, based in Florida, is currently under investigation for a significant data breach that exposed the credit card information of nearly 1.7 million customers. The breach, which took place between August 2023 and June 2024, compromised customer names, addresses, credit card

Intel has issued a security advisory detailing over 20 vulnerabilities affecting various processors, and has urged users to update their systems. The vulnerabilities primarily impact Intel’s UEFI firmware, used in processors such as Atom, Xeon, Pentium, Celeron, and Core. These flaws can result in

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