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Android happy to check your nudes before you forward them

The Android app SafetyCore was silently installed and looks at incoming and outgoing pictures to check their decency.

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Have I Been Pwned Adds ALIEN TXTBASE Data 280M Emails & Passwords

HaveIbeenPwned (HIBP) website has significantly expanded its database with hundreds of millions of newly compromised credentials extracted by hackers though infostealer logs.

Leaked Black Basta Chat Logs Reveal $107M Ransom Earnings and Internal Power Struggles

More than a year's worth of internal chat logs from a ransomware gang known as Black Basta have been published online in a leak that provides unprecedented visibility into their tactics and internal conflicts among its members. The Russian-language chats on the Matrix messaging platform between September 18, 2023, and September 28, 2024, were initially leaked on February 11, 2025, by an

Signal Threatens to Exit Sweden Over Government’s Backdoor Proposal

Sweden’s proposal to mandate encryption backdoors faces backlash from Signal, cybersecurity experts, and even its military over privacy and security risks.

SOC 3.0 - The Evolution of the SOC and How AI is Empowering Human Talent

Organizations today face relentless cyber attacks, with high-profile breaches hitting the headlines almost daily. Reflecting on a long journey in the security field, it’s clear this isn’t just a human problem—it’s a math problem. There are simply too many threats and security tasks for any SOC to manually handle in a reasonable timeframe. Yet, there is a solution. Many refer to it as SOC 3.0—an

New Linux Malware ‘Auto-Color’ Grants Hackers Full Remote Access to Compromised Systems

Universities and government organizations in North America and Asia have been targeted by a previously undocumented Linux malware called Auto-Color between November and December 2024, according to new findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. "Once installed, Auto-color allows threat actors full remote access to compromised machines, making it very difficult to remove without specialized

Three Password Cracking Techniques and How to Defend Against Them

Passwords are rarely appreciated until a security breach occurs; suffice to say, the importance of a strong password becomes clear only when faced with the consequences of a weak one. However, most end users are unaware of just how vulnerable their passwords are to the most common password-cracking methods. The following are the three common techniques for cracking passwords and how to

CERT-UA Warns of UAC-0173 Attacks Deploying DCRat to Compromise Ukrainian Notaries

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday warned of renewed activity from an organized criminal group it tracks as UAC-0173 that involves infecting computers with a remote access trojan named DCRat (aka DarkCrystal RAT). The Ukrainian cybersecurity authority said it observed the latest attack wave starting in mid-January 2025. The activity is designed to target the

Malicious PyPI Package "automslc" Enables 104K+ Unauthorized Deezer Music Downloads

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Python library on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that facilitates unauthorized music downloads from music streaming service Deezer. The package in question is automslc, which has been downloaded over 104,000 times to date. First published in May 2019, it remains available on PyPI as of writing. "Although automslc, which has been

US Background Check Firm Data Breach Exposes 3.3M Records

A data breach at DISA Global Solutions, a firm providing background checks, and drugs and alcohol testing services,…