Apple Accuses Former Apple Watch Staffer of Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets for Oppo Summary Apple has filed a lawsuit alleging that Dr Chen Shi, a former Apple Watch sensor…
Farmers Insurance Data Breach Impacts 1.1 Million People After Salesforce Attack Summary Farmers Insurance disclosed a data breach affecting 1,111,386 customers after attackers exploited a third-party vendor as part of…
FTC Chair Tells Tech Giants to Hold the Line on Encryption Summary FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson sent letters to senior executives at major US tech firms urging them not to…
ClickFix Attack Tricks AI Summaries Into Pushing Malware Summary CloudSEK published research demonstrating a proof-of-concept ClickFix exploit that weaponises AI summariser tools. Attackers craft HTML (web pages, posts, emails) containing…
Fast-Spreading, Complex Phishing Campaign Installs RATs Summary A global phishing campaign observed by Fortinet Labs uses personalised, convincing spoofed web pages and obfuscated JavaScript droppers to push UpCrypter and install…
Farmers Insurance says 1 million customers affected by cyberattack on third-party vendor Summary Farmers Insurance and affiliated companies disclosed a data breach impacting 1,071,172 customers after a third-party vendor told…
Summary South Korean police have arrested a 34-year-old Chinese national surnamed Jeon, suspected of running an overseas hacking ring that stole personal data from telecom company websites between August 2023…
Hackers Lay in Wait, Then Knocked Out Iran Ship Comms Summary A hacktivist collective calling itself Lab-Dookhtegan (“Sewn Lips”) claims to have disabled satellite communications and tracking on dozens of…
Russia weighs Google Meet ban as part of foreign tech crackdown Summary Russia is considering blocking Google Meet after brief outages of the video-conferencing service late last week. Andrei Svintsov,…
Perplexity’s AI Browser Comet Vulnerable To Prompt Injection Attacks That Hijack User Accounts Summary Independent security researchers at Brave and Guardio Labs have uncovered critical prompt-injection vulnerabilities in Perplexity’s AI…
