Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024

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Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that

Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns

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Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users’ personal data. The development

Top 5 AI-Powered Social Engineering Attacks

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Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No scouring systems for unpatched software.

CISA and FDA Warn of Critical Backdoor in Contec CMS8000 Patient Monitors

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about the presence of hidden functionality in Contec CMS8000 patient monitors and

Google: Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations

30/01/2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology powered by Google to further enable their malicious

Lightning AI Studio Vulnerability Allowed RCE via Hidden URL Parameter

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio development platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow for remote code execution. The vulnerability, rated a CVSS

Authorities Seize Domains of Popular Hacking Forums in Major Cybercrime Crackdown

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An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online platforms linked to cybercrime such as Cracked, Nulled, Sellix, and StarkRDP. The effort has targeted the following

DeepSeek AI Database Exposed: Over 1 Million Log Lines, Secret Keys Leaked

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Buzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric rise in popularity in recent days, left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have

SOC Analysts – Reimagining Their Role Using AI

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The job of a SOC analyst has never been easy. Faced with an overwhelming flood of daily alerts, analysts (and sometimes IT teams who are doubling as SecOps) must try

New Aquabot Botnet Exploits CVE-2024-41710 in Mitel Phones for DDoS Attacks

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A Mirai botnet variant dubbed Aquabot has been observed actively attempting to exploit a medium-severity security flaw impacting Mitel phones in order to ensnare them into a network capable of