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Nigerian national Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu has been extradited from France to the U.S. to face charges of hacking, fraud, and identity theft for suspected spearphishing attacks on U.S. tax preparation businesses.

A report from security firm SixMap shows that a large number of energy companies use equipment with vulnerabilities that are located on potentially exposed ports.

A Nigerian man accused of hacking, fraud and identity theft has been extradited from France to the US to face charges

Le service de messagerie instantanée Whatsapp a annoncé, le 5 août 2025, la mise en service de nouvelles mesures de sécurité pour lutter contre les arnaques en ligne. L'application affichera notamment des messages de prévention avant que vous n'entamiez une discussion avec un groupe ou un interlocuteur inconnu.

A look under the hood at a tool designed to disable protections

GenAI company OpenAI has launched its first-ever open-weight models alongside a red teaming challenge

Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group.

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Hackers have been sending fake summons emails purportedly from Ukrainian courts to target the country’s military and defense, cyber authorities have found.

Weight loss scams prey on insecurities, and scammers are abusing celebrities and fake news sites to deceive people.

National Bank of Canada (Banque Nationale du Canada), the sixth largest commercial bank of Canada is currently experiencing a widespread service outage affecting its online banking and mobile app platforms.

Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed seven vulnerabilities in WWBN AVideo, four in MedDream, and one in an Eclipse ThreadX module. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulnerability disclosure policy.     For Snort coverage that can detect the exploitation of these vulnerabilities, download the latest rule sets from Snort.org, and our latest Vulnerability Advisor

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During the pre-Black Hat AI Summit, Sean Morgan, Protect AI’s Chief Architect, highlighted the three most prominent security risks of using AI agents

Perplexity ignores robots.txt files on websites that say they do no want to be crawled.

Trend Micro has released a temporary fix for the flaws, which enable remote code execution on on-prem Apex One machines

Adversaries are prioritizing stealth over scale, according to OPSWAT’s latest Threat Landscape Report

The Treasury Department breach highlights the persistent risks organizations face with identity security. Learn how to better protect your sensitive systems.

ControlVault3 firmware vulnerabilities impacting over 100 Dell laptop models can allow attackers to bypass Windows login and install malware that persists across system reinstalls.

Les autorités taïwanaises ont annoncé le 5 août avoir arrêté plusieurs employés et ex-salariés du constructeur de semi-conducteurs TSMC. Ils sont soupçonnés d’avoir dérobé des secrets technologiques et industriels liés à la fabrication des puces d'une finesse de gravure de 2 nanomètres, fleuron absolu du géant

On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered…

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine

WhatsApp is introducing a new security feature that will help users spot potential scams when they are being added to a group chat by someone not in their contact list.

Microsoft unveils AI system Project Ire to automate malware detection, reducing analyst workload and boosting accuracy.

vCISO adoption surged 319% in one year as SMB demand and AI integration transform cybersecurity delivery.

Hypervisors have demonstrated the potential for widespread outages and data loss. SOC 2 offers a robust compliance framework to address these risks.

C'est la fin de l'aventure pour Dashlane Free. Le gestionnaire de mots de passe annonce l'arrêt prochain de sa formule gratuite, qui était devenue vraiment très contrariante à l'emploi depuis deux ans. Il est temps de passer à la formule payante, ou d'aller voir ailleurs. C'était à l'automne 2023. Dashlane, l'un des

Ransomware actors deploy a range of activities to make it harder for victims to recover and increase the consequences of not paying demands

Trend Micro flaws let attackers run code remotely on Apex One systems; on-premise users must apply fixes now.

Trend Micro has warned customers to immediately secure their systems against an actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability in its Apex One endpoint security platform.