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Meet the Chinese ‘Typhoon’ hackers preparing for war

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Of the cybersecurity risks facing the United States today, few loom larger than the potential sabotage capabilities posed by China-backed hackers, which top U.S. officials have described as an “epoch-defining threat.” In recent months, U.S. intelligence officials said Chinese government-backed hackers have been burrowing deep into the networks of U.S. critical infrastructure, including water, energy […]

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‘Chat control’: The EU’s controversial CSAM-scanning legal proposal explained

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The European Union has a longstanding reputation for strong privacy laws. But a legislative plan to combat child abuse — which the bloc formally presented back in May 2022 — is threatening to downgrade the privacy and security of hundreds of millions of regional messaging app users. The European Commission, the EU legislative body that

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Fidelity says data breach exposed personal data of 77,000 customers

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Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s largest asset managers, has confirmed that 77,000 customers had personal information compromised during an August data breach. The Boston, Mass.-based investment firm said in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Wednesday that an unnamed third party accessed information from its systems between August 17 and August 19 “using

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The Internet Archive slammed by DDoS attack and data breach

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The Internet Archive, the nonprofit organization that digitizes and archives materials like web pages, came under attack Wednesday. Several users – including over at The Verge – confronted a pop-up when visiting the site, reading, “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a

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India’s Star Health confirms data breach after cybercriminals post customers’ health data online

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Star Health and Allied Insurance, one of the largest health insurance firms in India, has confirmed it was the target of a “malicious cyberattack,” some two weeks after cybercriminals claimed to post customers’ health records and other sensitive data online. The Chennai-headquartered insurance giant told TechCrunch in a statement Wednesday that the cyberattack resulted in “unauthorized

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Hackers targeted Android users by exploiting zero-day bug in Qualcomm chips

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On Monday, chipmaker Qualcomm confirmed that hackers exploited a zero-day — meaning a security flaw that was unknown to the hardware maker when it was abused — in dozens of its chipsets found in popular Android devices. The zero-day vulnerability, officially designated CVE-2024-43047, “may be under limited, targeted exploitation,” according to Qualcomm, citing unspecified “indications”

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Kasperksy says it’s closing down its UK office and laying off dozens

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Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky is shutting down its office in the United Kingdom and laying off its staff, just three months after the company started closing down its U.S. operations and laying off dozens of workers, TechCrunch has learned.  Kaspersky spokesperson Francesco Tius said in an email to TechCrunch that the company “will commence a

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MoneyGram says hackers stole customers’ personal information and transaction data

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U.S. money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole its customers’ personal information and transaction data during a cyberattack last month. The company said in a statement Monday that an unauthorized third party “accessed and acquired” customer data during the cyberattack on September 20. The cyberattack — the nature of which remains unknown —

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The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite

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News broke this weekend that China-backed hackers have compromised the wiretap systems of several U.S. telecom and internet providers, likely in an effort to gather intelligence on Americans. The wiretap systems, as mandated under a 30-year-old U.S. federal law, are some of the most sensitive in a telecom or internet provider’s network, typically granting a

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Apple fixes bugs in macOS Sequoia that broke some cybersecurity tools

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In September, Apple released the new version of its computer operating system macOS 15, also known as Sequoia, which broke the functionality of several cybersecurity products, including those made by CrowdStrike and Microsoft.  Three weeks later, on Friday, Apple released the first update to macOS 15, and it claims to have fixed those issues. In

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