BlackCat Ransomware Group Targets McLaren Health Care, Claims Data from 2.5M Patients
The BlackCat ALPHV ransomware group is now targeting healthcare systems as news of its latest victims came to light on Friday. The notorious gang …
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Side Eye Attack: Extracting Audio from Still Smartphone Images
A team of university researchers has devised a new optical-acoustic side channel attack dubbed ‘Side Eye,’ which can extract ambient sound from the …
RansomedVC Claims Attack Against Sony Corporation, Leaks Data
The emerging ransomware group RansomedVC has claimed an attack against Sony Corporation, offering to sell the data they claim to have stolen from the …
Zero-day Vulnerability in Ubiquitous Lib Puts Millions at Risk
A high-severity heap buffer overflow vulnerability in libwebp, fixed recently as a zero-day flaw on Google Chrome, has a much broader impact than …
T-Mobile Retailer Suffers Breach, Employee Data Leaked on Hacking Forum
Samples of data allegedly belonging to a T-Mobile Retailer, Connectivity Source, appeared on a popular hacking forum earlier today. Connectivity …
New ‘Privacy Badger’ Extension Better Protects Against Google Link Tracking
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has announced the availability of a new version of ‘Privacy Badger’ that features better …
Proton Pass Retains Passwords in Memory
The Proton Pass password manager follows the bad practice of keeping unencrypted usernames and passwords in the computer’s memory. To make …
State Spyware Extensively Using Ads as Distribution Channel
Online advertising is being abused heavily to spread spyware to unsuspecting internet users by exploiting the lack of comprehensive security, as well …
Critical Firewall Flaw on Upcoming macOS 14 Sonoma Exposes VPN Traffic
Update: Apple has fixed the flaw according to Mullvad’s recent blog post. Mullvad VPN has published a warning to alert its macOS users that its …
Google Rolls Out Privacy Sandbox – New Initiative to Deliver Ads on Chrome
Google has officially begun to roll out its new advertising platform, the Privacy Sandbox, in its Chrome web browser, nearly four months after the …
FBI Hacker Leaks Airbus Data after Breaching Turkish Airlines
Update: In a statement provided to RestorePrivacy, Airbus has confirmed the cybersecurity incident and has launched an investigation (full statement …
‘See Tickets’ Says Hackers Stole Over 323,000 Payment Card Details
Vivendi Ticketing, doing business as ‘See Tickets,’ has informed 323,000 customers that their payment card details were stolen by hackers who managed …
Atlas VPN 0-Day Disconnects Client and Leaks User’s IP Address
Update: Atlas VPN released a security patch for the Linux client shortly after this story broke. The latest Linux update is not susceptible to this …
Used Items Market Freecycle Suffers Data Breach Impacting 7 Million
Freecycle.org has posted a notice on the homepage informing of a data breach on its platform that impacts all members, urging them to change their …
International Law Enforcement Operation Dismantles QBot Botnet
The FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, and police forces in the U.K. and Europe, have announced the takedown of the QBot (Qakbot) botnet malware. QBot …