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China may have suffered its largest data breach ever after a cyberattack recently targeted one of the country’s supercomputers. According to a CNN report, a hacker has allegedly accessed and stolen more than 10 petabytes of sensitive data from a state-run system, including what are said to be classified defence documents, missile schematics, and research…
Meta has indefinitely suspended all work with Mercor. This comes after the artificial intelligence (AI) data contracting startup valued at $10 billion confirmed a security breach that may have exposed proprietary training data belonging to some of the world’s most prominent AI laboratories. According to a WIRED report, two sources confirmed Meta’s move and described…
The FBI has officially acknowledged that Iranian-linked hackers targeted the personal email account of its director, Kash Patel, confirming the breach but moving quickly to downplay its significance. The breach was first reported by Reuters on Friday, March 27, with the Iran-linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claiming responsibility. The group posted extensive material on…
BENGALURU: A 41-year-old fruit vendor survived after his rivals hacked him 68 times with iron straps in the middle of a road.Santosh R, alias Hotte Hasi, of Agrahara Dasarahalli off Magadi Road, was allegedly attacked by Suresh and his gang.Santosh, a painter, is one of the accused facing charges of murdering Suresh’s elder brother Mohan…
Security researchers claim to have uncovered three security vulnerabilities in Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line AI tool. These flaws could have allowed attackers to execute code remotely on a developer’s machine or steal sensitive API keys. According to a Check Point report, company’s researchers found and reported all three flaws to Anthropic, which issued fixes for…
English-language edition of Wikipedia has reportedly banned Archive.today website after the archive site was found to direct a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against a blog. Wikipedia editors reportedly discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The Archive Today…
Instagram has announced that it has fixed an issue that sent a wave of unexplained password reset emails and sparked fears of a massive hacking incident. In a statement issued on Sunday (Janaury 11), the company clarified that while an external party exploited a technical vulnerability, Instagram’s core systems remained secure.“We fixed an issue that…
AI generated image for representation Google has filed a new lawsuit against a foreign cybercriminal organisation. The tech giant claims that the hacker group, based primarily in China, has been conducting a major SMS phishing, or “smishing,” operation in the US. The cybercrime group, which some cyber researchers call the “Smishing Triad,” uses a phishing-as-a-service…
As if cyber frauds were not enough, you will now have to deal with another evil of the AI era, vibe hacking!Cybersecurity experts are warning that AI is increasingly being misused by criminals to launch sophisticated cyberattacks. What started as “vibe coding,” a way to harness AI for productive tasks, now has a darker side:…
