Google Pays Out Nearly $12M in 2024 Bug Bounty Program

The program underwent a series of changes in the past year, including richer maximum rewards in a variety of bug categories.

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Major AI market share shift revealed: DALL-E plummets 80% as Black Forest Labs dominates 2025 data

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APT ‘Blind Eagle’ Targets Colombian Government

The South American-based advanced persistent threat group is using an exploit with a “high infection rate,” according to research from Check Point.

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Ex-Employee Found Guilty in Revenge Kill-Switch Scheme

Clandestine kill switch was designed to lock out other users if the developer’s account in the company’s Windows Active Directory was ever disabled.

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Trump administration ends FTC’s ransomware data breach case against MGM Resorts

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shuttered its case against MGM Resorts International centered on the company’s handling of personal data stolen during a 2023 ransomware attack.

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Trump Coins Used as Lure in Malware Campaign

Binance is being spoofed in an email campaign using free TRUMP Coins as a lure leading to the installation of the ConnectWise RAT.

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Hacker accessed PowerSchool’s network months before massive December breach

CrowdStrike says a hacker had access to PowerSchool’s internal system as far back as August.

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Details Disclosed for SCADA Flaws That Could Facilitate Industrial Attacks

Palo Alto Networks has shared details on several high-severity Mitsubishi Electric and Iconics SCADA vulnerabilities.

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Following takedown operation, Garantex invites customers to ‘face-to-face’ Moscow meeting

Russian crypto exchange Garantex has yet to directly address the international law enforcement operation that resulted in the seizure of its domains, and criminal charges against two of its administrators.

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Researchers Expose New Polymorphic Attack That Clones Browser Extensions to Steal Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a novel technique that allows a malicious web browser extension to impersonate any installed add-on.
“The polymorphic extensions create a pixel perfect replica of the target’s icon, HTML popup, workflows and even temporarily disables the legitimate extension, making it extremely convincing for victims to believe that they are providing credentials to

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