Perplexity Caught Using Stealth Crawlers to Bypass Website Blocks
Perplexity AI has been caught using undisclosed "stealth" crawlers to bypass website restrictions and access content that site owners expli…
Privacy
Has Your Personal Data Been Exposed? Here’s How to Find Out
You think you're private. That no one knows what sites you signed up for in college, what silly comment you left on a forum in 2012, or what sket…
Tea App Data Breach Exposes 72,000 Women’s Selfies and IDs
A massive security breach at Tea, the women's dating safety app that recently topped Apple's App Store charts, has exposed approximately 72,0…
FBI Warns of Deepfake Phishing Campaign Impersonating U.S. Officials
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently warned of a widespread deepfake phishing campaign targeting U.S. federal and state officials and …
FBI Shuts Down Major Video Game Piracy Networks Costing Industry $170 Million
Federal authorities have dismantled several prominent video game piracy websites that facilitated over 3.2 million illegal downloads in just three mo…
Major Nintendo Switch Piracy Site Seized By FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized Nsw2u , one of the largest Nintendo Switch piracy websites, in a coordinated international law enforce…
Your Password Just Became Worthless: Why Hackers Are Winning the Authentication War
New research reveals threat actors are bypassing advanced security systems by targeting the weakest link: human credentials Cybercriminals have drama…
Google Hit with $314 Million Penalty for Secretly Harvesting Android Users' Cellular Data
A California jury has ordered Google to pay $314.6 million in damages for covertly collecting data from Android smartphones while devices sat idle, m…
16 Billion Passwords Leaked in Largest Data Breach Ever—That's Two Accounts for Every Human Alive
A staggering 16 billion login credentials have been exposed in what security researchers are calling one of the largest data breaches in history, rep…
Apple Removes Advanced Data Protection in UK
Apple has announced the removal of its Advanced Data Protection ( ADP ) feature for iCloud users in the United Kingdom, following a government order …
Ad Tech Firm Tracked 1.3 Billion People including US Military Personnel
A recent investigation has uncovered how a Lithuanian ad-tech company, Eskimi, collected and provided sensitive location data of US military personne…
WhatsApp Spyware Developer Paragon Confirms U.S. Government Among Key Clients
Israeli spyware developer Paragon Solutions has confirmed its relationship with the U.S. government after a major security incident involving WhatsAp…
WhatsApp Users Targeted by New Spyware Attack
WhatsApp has revealed that approximately 90 users, including journalists and civil society members across more than two dozen countries, were targete…
DeepSeek Database Leak Exposes Sensitive User Data
Security researchers at Wiz Research have uncovered a significant vulnerability in DeepSeek's infrastructure. The vulnerability exposes sensitive…
15-year-old High School Junior Found Critical Privacy Flaw in Cloudflare CDN
A significant privacy vulnerability in Cloudflare's Content Delivery Network (CDN) has been discovered that could allow attackers to t…
Gravy Analytics Data Breach Exposes Millions of Smartphone Locations
A major data breach at Gravy Analytics, a prominent location data broker, has potentially exposed vast amounts of sensitive smartphone location data,…
New Android Spyware Operation Exploits Qualcomm Driver Vulnerabilities in Serbia
A new investigation by Amnesty International has revealed a sophisticated surveillance operation in Serbia that combined multiple spyware tools to ta…
Researchers Uncover Sophisticated Chinese Mobile Surveillance Tool EagleMsgSpy
Threat Intelligence researchers at Lookout Threat Lab have uncovered EagleMsgSpy, a sophisticated surveillance tool developed by Wuhan Chinasoft Tok…
Google U-Turns from Its Cookie Deprecation Plans
Google has announced a significant change to its long-awaited phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome, potentially affecting billions of users worl…
OpenAI Outlines Consumer Privacy Practices
OpenAI today reiterates its concerns to protect user privacy amid growing concerns over the power of AI systems to infringe on personal data. The com…