An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the victims’ systems. This article has been indexed from Security…
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How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic’s Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
Police arrest SMS blaster crew that sent malicious messages to thousands across Toronto
Toronto police said this is the “first known instance” of an SMS blaster being used in Canada. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Police arrest SMS blaster crew that sent malicious messages…
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AI evaluation startup Braintrust confirms breach, tells every customer to rotate sensitive keys
Braintrust, a startup that makes an “operating system for engineers building AI software,” notified customers that hackers broke into one of its Amazon cloud environments, and is asking customers to rotate their API keys. This article has been indexed from…
DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases
U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang’s leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country’s military draft. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: DOJ…
Some kids are bypassing age-verification checks with a fake mustache
A new survey found that kids find it easy to bypass age checks, despite a rise in age-verification laws around the world. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Some kids are bypassing…
Some kids are bypassing age verification checks with a fake mustache
A new survey found that kids find it easy to bypass age checks, despite a rise in age verification laws around the world. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Some kids are…
Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor into Daemon Tools in ‘widespread’ attack
The cybersecurity company says it’s seen thousands of infection attempts, and at least a dozen successful hacks after users installed malicious versions of the popular Windows software. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original…
Hackers steal students’ data during breach at education tech giant Instructure
The data breach at education tech giant Instructure includes students’ private data, according to a sample of the allegedly stolen data seen by TechCrunch. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Hackers steal…
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US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and data centers that rely on Linux. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read…
U.S. government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and datacenters that rely on Linux. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the…
Hackers are mass-exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers are now targeting and hacking thousands of vulnerable websites. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article:…
Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Hackers are still exploiting…
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg’s investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users’ information with advertisers. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: US healthcare…
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Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack
A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read…
Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites
Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers. One company said hackers have been abusing the bug for months. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Hackers are…
After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too
OpenAI will begin rolling out it cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only “to critical cyber defenders” at first. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts…