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A list of topics we covered in the week of April 21 to April 27 of 2025
Plus: Cybercriminals stole a record-breaking fortune from US residents and businesses in 2024, and Google performs its final flip-flop in its yearslong quest to kill tracking cookies.
Software development is about to undergo a generative change. What this means is that AI (Artificial Intelligence) has…
Blue Shield of California exposed the health data of 4.7 million members to Google for years due to…
Google is rolling out an end-to-end encrypted email feature for business customers, but it could spawn phishing attacks, particularly in non-Gmail inboxes.
A newly discovered malicious program effectively turns Android phones into malicious tap machines that vacuum up payment card data.
Blue Shield of California said it accidentally leaked the personal data of 4.7 million individuals to Google after a Google Analytics misconfiguration.
Hackers in the Elusive Comet campaign exploit Zoom’s remote-control feature to steal cryptocurrency, and over $100K lost in…
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub. Further investigation into one of those code bundles shows it is remarkably similar to a program published in January 2025 by Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE employee who has worked at a number of Musk's companies.
Multiple threat activity clusters with ties to North Korea (aka Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) have been linked to attacks targeting organizations and individuals in the Web3 and cryptocurrency space. "The focus on Web3 and cryptocurrency appears to be primarily financially motivated due to the heavy sanctions that have been placed on North Korea," Google-owned Mandiant said in