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CYBER6d agoMeta policies fail as scam ads, deepfakes impersonating Nigerian public figures litter FacebookMeta’s policies say it doesn’t allow such ads, yet they have flooded the social media platform, some of them specifically targeting Nigerians. The post Meta policies fail as scam ads, deepfakes impersonating Nigerian public figures litter Facebook appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.Premium Times
CYBER6d agoU.S. Offers Up to $10 Million for Tips on Zhang Yu, Charged in HAFNIUM HacksThe U.S. State Department is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of Zhang Yu, a Chinese national charged in the United States in connection with the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server attacks known as HAFNIUM. The reward is for information leading to his identification or location, the news outlet NTD reported this week, citing a noticeThe Hacker News
CYBER6d agoMonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt DataThe U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to obtain decryptors while claiming to use proprietary tools to recover their data. Zohar Pinhasi (aka Zack Silver and Zack Green) has been charged with two counts of wire fraud and one count of wireThe Hacker News
CYBER6d agoPM Modi calls for global framework to tackle cyber frauds, deepfakes, digital crimesTechnology can achieve scale only when it gains people's trust, PM Modi saidThe Hindu
CYBER6d agoUK and Germany to launch security pact against Russian sabotage and cyber attacksThe prime minister’s trip comes amid an intelligence scandal that has rocked GermanyThe Independent World
CYBER6d agoTensorlake npm Package Compromised to Deliver Shai-Hulud Credential-Stealing WormThe Hacker News
CYBER6d agoKarnataka High Court grants bail to hacker Sriki in money laundering caseThe court noted that after registration of the predicate offence in 2020, no other criminal case had been registered against the petitionersThe Hindu
CYBER6d ago‘China already has spies’ at US AI labs, claims ex-Anthropic researcherFormer Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon said he was 90 per cent certain that China already had spies inside both US artificial intelligence (AI) companies, without providing evidence. Coxon made the allegation in an interview with entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David on the PBD Podcast, arguing that China could steal advances from leading US AI labs and quickly close any technological gap. “Right now, if we just stopped, they would try and catch up. But I think one really important thing...South China Morning Post
CYBER6d agoFBI concerned accused Chinese foreign agent is serious flight risk, sources sayCalifornia realtor Wanying Zhang is facing federal prosecution for allegedly surveilling the Taiwanese president's son in Washington last year at the direction of Chinese government officials.CBS News
CYBER6d agoCitizen Lab Slams Trump Administration, 'Techno-Fascist' ExecutivesThe Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert warns the US government is pushing for pervasive surveillance and says certain technology executives are all too happy to help.Dark Reading
CYBER6d agoAnthropic Gives Vetted Defenders Fewer Claude GuardrailsAnthropic has merged Project Glasswing into a tiered access program for its advanced cyber LLMs, including Opus, Sonnet, and Mythos.Dark Reading
CYBER6d agoDemocratic FCC member warns of AI robocall misinformation risks in USFCC commissioner warns against AI robocalls, citing risks of misinformation before crucial midterm elections.Al Jazeera [en]
CYBER6d agoOpenAI Agent Escape Causes Wikimedia Service OutageAutonomous agents also tried to abuse other websites and services hosted by the foundation, using them as proxies for unauthorized activities.Dark Reading
CYBER6d agoAttackers Hijack .gh, .sl, and .as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Google DomainsThe Hacker News
CYBER6d agoAI triggers an avalanche of security flaws: a challenge for hackers received 1,300 reports in two weeks and one was criticalVercel abrió una competencia para buscar vulnerabilidades y sólo 73 casos fueron relevantes, entre cientos de duplicados y alertas inválidas.Apareció una falla grave que podía afectar a sistemas que utilizan una pieza de software muy extendida: el kernel de Linux.Los hackers Andrés Riancho y Alan “El Mago” Levy explicaron el caso en Ekoparty 22 y hablaron con Clarín.Clarín
CYBER6d agoEight Malicious npm Packages Downloaded 40,767 Times Deliver Overlord RAT and StealerThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 7SonicWall Patches CVSS 10.0 Pre-Authentication SSRF Flaw in SMA1000 AppliancesThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 7Iowa AG sues video surveillance company for making Iowans’ private data available to Chinacbnc · india
CYBEROct 7Recent Taiwan simulation highlights US cyberdefense gaps against China, experts warnDefense One
CYBEROct 7Lomas de Zamora: students reported using AI to create nude photos of classmates and sell them on adult sitesClarín
CYBEROct 7France and US shut down platform selling sexual images of women and girlsA joint French-US operation against an online platform that sold private sexual content stolen from over 17,000 women worldwide led to the arrests of two brothers in northern France and the seizure of over €700,000 in bitcoin.Le Monde [en]
CYBERBREAKINGOct 7Unpatched Critical LMCache Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code RemotelyThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 7PoeLLM Malware Infects 3,400+ Servers to Expand Crypto Mining BotnetThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 7AI-generated child sexual abuse images cause real-life harmThe Hill