As banks face an “invisible enemy”, London’s FALKIN raises €1.7 million to stop fraud before it starts
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - FALKIN, a British digital safety company that helps users stop scams before payments happen, has today announced it has secured €1.7 million ($2 million) in pre-Seed funding amid rising regulatory and consumer pressure for proactive scam-prevention measur…
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Microsoft Uncovers ‘Whisper Leak’ Flaw, Exposing Encrypted AI Chats Across 28 LLMs
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft researchers have detailed a new side-channel attack called “Whisper Leak” that can guess the topic of encrypted AI chats, exposing a fundamental privacy risk across the AI industry. In a report, the team showed how patterns in network traffic si…
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Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones
Jessica Lyons / theregister - 'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording calls, tr…
Back to Top / Friday, November 7, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 15773 / 4 stories in 3 months
FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is
Stevie Bonifield / theverge - The FBI is attempting to track down the identity of the owner of Archive.today and its numerous mirrors, like Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported by 404 Media, the FBI subpoena, which was posted on the official Archive.today X account, was sent to web …
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Google gets the US government’s green light to acquire Wiz for $32B
Rebecca Szkutak / techcrunch - Google announced its intent to acquire cloud security company Wiz in March and the deal is now on track to close in early 2026.
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Google warns that a new era of self-evolving, AI-driven malware has begun
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - A new report out today from Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group warns that there has been a major shift in cybercrime as attackers are no longer using artificial intelligence solely for productivity but are now deploying AI-enabled malware directly in …
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Apple Brings Its App Store To the Web
BeauHD / slashdot - Apple has officially launched a web-based version of its App Store that lets users browse apps across all Apple devices through a redesigned interface. "There's no way to download apps from the App Store on the web, however," notes The Verge. "Apple just …
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Russian Hackers Abuse Hyper-V to Hide Malware and Evade Endpoint Detection
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Russian-linked hackers, Curly COMrades, are abusing Microsoft Hyper-V to deploy malware in hidden Linux VMs, bypassing EDR to conduct stealthy espionage.The post Russian Hackers Abuse Hyper-V to Hide Malware and Evade Endpoint Detection appeared first on …
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‘We got hacked’ emails threaten to leak University of Pennsylvania data
Lawrence Abrams / bleepingcomputer - The University of Pennsylvania suffered a cybersecurity incident on Friday, where students and alumni received a series of offensive emails from various University email addresses, claiming that data was stolen in a breach. [...]
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WhatsApp will let you use passkeys for your backups
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - WhatsApp is rolling out passkeys for backups, which is great news for anyone who has been on the platform for years. This will add another layer of security to anything that's been backed up, including chats, photos, voice notes and more.It's also conveni…
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Proton’s new Data Breach Observatory shines a light into the dark web
Ian Barker / betanews - Date breaches affecting businesses and online services are ever more frequent and can affect anyone who is unfortunate enough to be a customer or supplier. Finding out the facts about a breach can be tricky, however, as information is heavily reliant on s…
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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of invol…
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Clearview AI sued in Europe over alleged privacy violations
therecord - The complaint follows several enforcement actions and bans from European data protection authorities which the advocacy group, noyb, alleges Clearview AI has ignored.
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CISA orders feds to patch Windows Server WSUS flaw used in attacks
Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered U.S. government agencies to patch a critical-severity Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) vulnerability after adding it to its catalog of security flaws exploited in attacks. [...]
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Researchers exploit OpenAI's Atlas by disguising prompts as URLs
Richard Speed / theregister - NeutralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands Researchers have found more attack vectors for OpenAI's new Atlas web browser – this time by disguising a potentially malicious prompt as an apparently harmless URL.…
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OpenAI Atlas Browser Hands On: I’m Not Convinced the Web Needs a Chatbot Tour Guide
Reece Rogers / wired - In OpenAI’s new Atlas browser, the Ask ChatGPT sidebar is moderately helpful at best. Sometimes, it’s confusingly wrong.
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Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited Windows Server Flaw CVE-2025-59287
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has released an urgent out-of-band patch for CVE-2025-59287, a critical, wormable RCE vulnerability in WSUS that is being actively exploited in the wild.The post Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited Windows Server Flaw CVE-202…
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How iCloud backups helped expose a mob-and NBA-linked poker cheating scandal
appleinsider - Digital evidence stored in iCloud played a key role in exposing a multistate poker-rigging scheme tied to organized crime and NBA players. Here's how, and what evidence was uncovered.iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker schemeFederal investigators us…
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Toys “R” Us Canada warns customers' info leaked in data breach
Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - Toys "R" Us Canada has sent notices of a data breach to customers informing them of a security incident where threat actors leaked customer records they had previously stolen from its systems. [...]
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Reddit sues Perplexity over alleged large-scale data scraping
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Reddit has filed a lawsuit against the answer-engine company Perplexity and three data-scraping service providers, SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy. The legal action seeks to halt what Reddit’s complaint describes as the unlawful, industrial-scale circumven…
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