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1. BTC.com lost $3 million worth of cryptocurrency in cyberattack

   By alf9872000, December 27, 2022
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   • December 27, 2022

2. 5 charged in “Scattered Spider,” one of the most profitable phishing scams ever

   By Karlston, November 21, 2024   

   • phishing
   • 0 comments
   • 1,527 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 21, 2024

3. DeepSeek exposes database with over 1 million chat records

   By Karlston, January 31, 2025   

   • deepseek
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   • 1,146 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • January 31, 2025

4. Did Microsoft just try to gaslight us? The tech giant has seemingly backtracked on changes to the account sign-in experience.

   By Karlston, February 20, 2025
   • 1 comment
   • 1,128 views
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   • Comment by The Boca Deb
   • February 22, 2025

5. A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

   By aum, May 23
   • 1 comment
   • 263 views
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   • Comment by The Boca Deb
   • May 24

6. New Attack Let Attacker Collect and Spoof Browser's Digital Fingerprints

   By aum, October 25, 2021
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   • 1,273 views
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   • Added by aum
   • October 25, 2021

7. Firefox’s anti-tracking feature adds per-account VPN for more privacy

   By Karlston, February 2, 2022   

   • firefox
   • 0 comments
   • 1,010 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • February 2, 2022

8. Android's March 2022 security updates fix three critical bugs

   By Karlston, March 8, 2022   

   • android
   • security updates
   • 0 comments
   • 1,690 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • March 8, 2022

9. Android Messages and Dialer apps allegedly sent data to Google without consent

   By vissha, March 23, 2022   

   • google
   • google phone
   • (and 8 more)

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     • google
     • google phone
     • google messages
     • android phone
     • phone app
     • messages app
     • data collection
     • data collection abuse
     • spying
     • google dialer
   • 1 comment
   • 1,433 views
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   • Comment by Matt
   • March 23, 2022

10. Australia warns of money recovery phishing luring past victims

    By Karlston, April 6, 2022   

    • australia
    • phishing
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    • 1,474 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 6, 2022

11. Microsoft, Apple, and Google to support FIDO passwordless logins

    By Karlston, May 5, 2022
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    • 1,030 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • May 5, 2022

12. Microsoft warns of brute-force attacks targeting MSSQL servers

    By Karlston, May 18, 2022
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    • 1,001 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • May 18, 2022

13. Over 9,000 VNC servers exposed online without a password

    By Karlston, August 14, 2022   

    • vnc server
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    • 1,221 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 14, 2022

14. Americans duped into losing $10 billion by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: Report

    By aum, December 27, 2022
    • 1 comment
    • 1,310 views
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    • Comment by Fame
    • December 28, 2022

15. Mastodon vulnerability allows attackers to take over accounts

    By Karlston, February 3, 2024   

    • mastodon
    • vulnerability
    • 0 comments
    • 1,369 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 3, 2024

16. Suspect arrested in Snowflake data-theft attacks affecting millions

    By Karlston, November 6, 2024
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    • 1,153 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 6, 2024

17. Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

    By Karlston, April 11, 2025   

    • google chrome
    • extensions
    • 0 comments
    • 928 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 11, 2025

18. Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

    By Karlston, August 26, 2025   

    • google
    • android
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • google
      • android
      • sideloading
    • 0 comments
    • 571 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 26, 2025

19. 15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

    By Karlston, September 1, 2021
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    • 1,377 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 1, 2021

20. North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

    By Karlston, February 2, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 1,871 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 2, 2022

21. New Variant of Chinese Gimmick Malware Targeting macOS Users

    By aum, March 23, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 1,080 views
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    • Added by aum
    • March 23, 2022

22. Google blocks site of largest computing society for being ‘harmful’

    By Karlston, July 21, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 1,000 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • July 21, 2022

23. Instagram fined €405 million for sharing children's data

    By aum, September 5, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 970 views
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    • Added by aum
    • September 5, 2022

24. BlueNoroff APT Hackers Using New Ways to Bypass Windows MotW Protection

    By alf9872000, December 27, 2022
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    • 1,496 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • December 27, 2022

25. Bitwarden's desktop app now supports passwordless login for web vault

    By Karlston, February 23, 2023   

    • bitwarden
    • 0 comments
    • 1,558 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 23, 2023