Apitor collected data without informing parents or asking for permission, the FTC said, violating federal parental consent requirements.
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The critical, actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities affect the Linux kernel and Android runtime.
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In a 2-1 decision, an appeals court upheld a 1935 Supreme Court precedent restricting the president’s ability to fire FTC commissioners.
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Salesloft said the AI chat agent for sales and leads will be taken offline, as investigations into the attack spree widen and reveal more victims.
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He takes over a key leadership role in a position that’s seen rapid turnover over the past year.
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An independent testing firm found that SlashNext’s product has a 100% detection rate for business email compromise and QR code attacks.
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Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko allegedly committed ransomware attacks from 2018 to 2022. He’s been out on bond since his arrest almost a year ago, despite multiple run-ins with police.
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Workado publicly claimed its AI content detector could accurately determine whether a piece of text was generated by AI in 98% of cases. The FTC said its "no better than a coin flip."
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Jason Bilnoski with the FBI’s cyber division told CyberScoop that investigators seized on the mistakes of companies China has used in its widespread cyberespionage.
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Researchers said Google Workspace customers were hit, and noted other platforms are impacted as well. Fresh evidence proves impact was not limited to Salesforce, as Salesloft previously claimed.
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A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice says the Trump administration has foreshadowed plans to meddle with mail-in voting, voter rolls and much more.
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As the sanctions-evading scheme has grown, so too has the U.S. government’s response.
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The Chinese government-linked hackers were the subject of an alert from U.S. and international partners.
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There are still impediments to overcome before companies and agencies can get more broadly aggressive in cyberspace, both legal and commercial.
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The financially motivated threat group demonstrates deep knowledge of hybrid cloud environments, which allows it to rapidly steal sensitive data, destroy backups and encrypt systems for ransomware.
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The vendor, which has been widely targeted, said the memory-overflow vulnerability can result in remote-code execution or denial of service.
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A threat group Google tracks as UNC6395 systematically stole large amounts of data from Salesforce customer instances by using OAuth tokens stolen from Salesloft Drift, researchers said.
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The malware, called PromptLock, essentially functions as a hard-coded prompt injection attack on a large language model, inspecting local filesystems, exfiltrating files and encrypting data.
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The group of experts sided with Google against the makers of Fortnite in the long-running antitrust battle.
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