13 Oct

China probes Qualcomm’s Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions

China’s competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm’s purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington

Author rabih
13 Oct

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t exist

Ofcom, the UK’s Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content. The fine

Author rabih
13 Oct

Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears

The Dutch government has placed Nexperia – a Chinese-owned semiconductor company that previously operated Britain’s Newport Wafer Fab — under special administrative measures, citing serious

Author rabih
13 Oct

AI-aided malvertising: Exploiting a chatbot to spread scams

Digital Security Cybercriminals have tricked X’s AI chatbot into promoting phishing scams in a technique that has been nicknamed “Grokking”. Here’s what to know about

Author rabih
10 Oct

Pro-Russia hacktivist group dies of cringe after falling into researchers’ trap

Security researchers say they duped pro-Russia cybercriminals into targeting a fake critical infrastructure organization, which the crew later claimed – via their Telegram group –

Author rabih
10 Oct

Microsoft warns of ‘payroll pirate’ crew looting US university salaries

Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems. In a blog post,

Author rabih
10 Oct

Cops nuke BreachForums (again) amid cybercrime supergroup extortion blitz

US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help

Author rabih
10 Oct

UK techies’ union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details

UK trade union Prospect is notifying members of a breach that involved data such as sexual orientation and disabilities. According to disclosure emails seen by

Author rabih
09 Oct

It’s trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic

Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on.  Researchers at the US AI firm,

Author rabih
09 Oct

SonicWall breach hits every cloud backup customer after 5% claim goes up in smoke

SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed

Author rabih
09 Oct

How Uber seems to know where you are – even with restricted location permissions

Is the ride-hailing app secretly tracking you? Not really, but this iOS feature may make it feel that way. Tony Anscombe 09 Oct 2025  • 

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08 Oct

Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort

Salesforce won’t pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data

Author rabih
08 Oct

Germany slams brakes on EU’s Chat Control device-scanning snoopfest

Germany has committed to oppose the EU’s controversial “Chat Control” regulations following huge pressure from multiple activists and major organizations. The draft regs would allow

Author rabih
08 Oct

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Passwords alone are not enough

Never rely on just a password, however strong it may be. Multi-factor authentication is essential for anyone who wants to protect their online accounts from

Author rabih
07 Oct

Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT

Employees could be opening up to OpenAI in ways that put sensitive data at risk. According to a study by security biz LayerX, a large

Author rabih
07 Oct

Nearly a year after attack, US medical scanning biz gets clear image of stolen patient data

Florida-based Doctors Imaging Group has admitted that the sensitive medical and financial data of 171,862 patients was stolen during the course of a November 2024

Author rabih
07 Oct

Police and military radio maker BK Technologies cops to cyber break-in

BK Technologies, the Florida-based maker of mission-critical radios for US police, fire, and defense customers, has confessed to a cyber intrusion that briefly rattled its

Author rabih
07 Oct

OpenAI bans suspected Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to plan surveillance

OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts believed to be linked to Chinese government entities attempting to use AI models to surveil individuals and social media accounts.

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