DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases
U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang’s leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country’s military draft.
AI evaluation startup Braintrust confirms breach, tells every customer to rotate sensitive keys
Braintrust, a startup that makes an “operating system for engineers building AI software,” notified customers that hackers broke into one of its Amazon cloud environments, and is asking customers to rotate their API keys.
Some kids are bypassing age verification checks with a fake mustache
A new survey found that kids find it easy to bypass age checks, despite a rise in age verification laws around the world.
Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor into Daemon Tools in ‘widespread’ attack
The cybersecurity company says it’s seen thousands of infection attempts, and at least a dozen successful hacks after users installed malicious versions of the popular Windows software.
Hackers steal students’ data during breach at education tech giant Instructure
The data breach at education tech giant Instructure includes students’ private data, according to a sample of the allegedly stolen data seen by TechCrunch.
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U.S. government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and datacenters that rely on Linux.
Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites.
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg’s investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users’ information with advertisers.
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