Russian nation-state actor Star Blizzard has been running a new spear-phishing campaign to compromise WhatsApp accounts of targets in government, diplomacy, defense policy, international relations, and Ukraine aid organizations. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
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Popular video-sharing social network TikTok has officially gone dark in the United States, 2025, as a federal ban on the app comes into effect on January 19, 2025. “We regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will take effect on January 19 and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable,” the company said in […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced action against General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary, OnStar, for unlawful collection and sale of drivers’ precise geolocation and driving behavior data without first obtaining their consent. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
Earlier this week, Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Assassin’s Creed Origins patches to fix Windows 11 24H2 compatibility issues that caused crashes, freezes, and audio problems. […] Go to Source Author: Sergiu Gatlan
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company and a Shanghai-based cyber actor for their alleged links to the Salt Typhoon group and the recent compromise of the federal agency. “People’s Republic of China-linked (PRC) malicious cyber actors continue to target U.S. government systems, including […]
Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere (aka Hoyoverse) has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its gacha loot box monetization and is now banned from selling them to teens under the age of sixteen without parental consent. […] Go to Source Author: Lawrence Abrams
The Supreme Court has affirmed TikTok’s ban in the US, which has its users in revolt and is creating a whole new set of national cybersecurity concerns. Go to Source Author: Becky Bracken, Senior Editor, Dark Reading
The propensity for users to enter customer data, source code, employee benefits information, financial data, and more into ChatGPT, Copilot, and others is racking up real risk for enterprises. Go to Source Author: Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
Hotel management platform Otelier suffered a data breach after threat actors breached its Amazon S3 cloud storage to steal millions of guests’ personal information and reservations for well-known hotel brands like Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt. […] Go to Source Author: Lawrence Abrams
The stolen firewall data is thorough but more than 2 years old now, meaning that most organizations following even basic security practices face minimal risk, hopefully. Go to Source Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer