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Supposed 183 Million Gmail Passwords Stolen in Data Breach Is Old News, According to Google
Anyone still concerned about wild claims of 2.5 billion or 183 million Gmail passwords stolen that have appeared in recent weeks can relax and breathe easy. Google has confirmed that it has not suffered any kind of mass data breach.
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US Federal Cyber Defense is Slipping, Warns Cyberspace Solarium Commission
The non-profit Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) has issued an annual opinion report on the state of US federal cyber defense since 2020, and this year’s edition is noteworthy for being the first in which preparedness is seen as having regressed from prior years.
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Lessons From the AWS Outage: Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
Amazon says that the infamous AWS outage that took place for about 12 hours on October 20 and caused disruptions for thousands of businesses is now fully remediated, but organizations are still struggling to catch up with some of the backups and issues it caused.
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F5 Security Breach, Source Code Theft Linked to Chinese Hackers
The conditions are ripe for the F5 theft to spiral into further security breaches, with not just source code but inside information on undisclosed vulnerabilities that had yet to be patched exposed to the hackers. The Chinese team suspected of being behind it is an espionage-focused outfit that specializes in quietly penetrating organizations in the…
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UK NCSC Notes Major Spike in “Nationally Significant” Cyber Incidents
The good news from the UK report is that no incidents recorded over the year rose to the level of a “national cyber emergency,” the most serious designation … However, 18 cyber incidents in the second most serious category is bad news when that number was at just six the year before and virtually did…
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OpenAI Report Finds Foreign Adversaries Still Limited in Use of AI Tools, But Are Hacking Workarounds
More sophisticated foreign adversaries have figured out how to exploit model “grey zones” in AI tools, however, building attack tools gradually from smaller pieces that individually do not present as threats.
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$2 Billion in 2025, $6 Billion Total Stolen Crypto for North Korean Hackers as Focus Shifts to Individuals
The majority of the $2 billion stolen by the North Korean hackers this year came from crypto exchange Bybit, which was hit for $1.46 billion in February. About 30 more recorded incidents this year make up the difference of a little over half a billion dollars, though the Elliptic researchers warn there are likely more…
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Oracle E‑Business Suite Zero-Day Found To Be Actively Exploited by Ransomware Gang
A high-severity vulnerability in Oracle E‑Business Suite has received security patching along with a warning that it has already been exploited in the wild by ransomware threat groups.
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Red Hat GitLab Breach Results in Sale of Data From Private Repositories
Hacking group Crimson Collective was able to breach a self-managed GitLab instance used by the Red Hat consulting division, making off with about 570 GB of compressed data. The stolen data has since been seen for sale on Telegram channels.
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Public-Facing Amazon Storage Bucket Exposed Over 273,000 Indian Bank Transfers
Security researchers have discovered a publicly accessible Amazon S3 storage bucket that contains records of over 273,000 transfers taking place at banks in India, some of which have highly sensitive financial information in them.