The most secure browser on the web just got a major update – what’s new

Tor Browser 14.0’s many improvements include more efficient Android browsing.

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Russia Kneecaps Ukraine Army Recruitment With Spoofed ‘Civil Defense’ App

Posing as an application used to locate Ukrainian military recruiters, a Kremlin-backed hacking initiative delivers malware, along with disinformation designed to undermine sign-ups for soldiers in the war against Russia.

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INE Launches Initiative to Optimize Year-End Training Budgets with Enhanced Cybersecurity and Networking Programs

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Texas county says 47,000 had SSNs, medical treatment info leaked during May cyberattack

Wichita County, Texas, issued data breach notifications about an incident in May that appears to be the work of a ransomware gang.

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Mozilla: ChatGPT Can Be Manipulated Using Hex Code

LLMs tend to miss the forest for the trees, understanding specific instructions but not their broader context. Bad actors can take advantage of this myopia to get them to do malicious things, with a new prompt-injection technique.

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Wiz CEO explains why he turned down a $23 billion deal

Assaf Rappaport, the co-founder and CEO of cloud security startup Wiz, said that turning down a $23 billion offer from Google was “the toughest decision ever,” but justified it by saying the company can get even bigger and reach $100 billion because cloud security is the future.  “I think we did the right choice,” Rappaport […]

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Wiz CEO says company was targeted with deepfake attack that used his voice

Even cybersecurity companies aren’t safe from deepfake attacks. Speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Wiz’s CEO and co-founder Assaf Rappaport, who recently turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google, noted that his employees had been targeted by a deepfake attack just two weeks ago. “Dozens of my employees got a […]

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Russian Court Jails Four REvil Ransomware Gang Members

Four members of the notorious REvil ransomware group have been sentenced to prison terms in Russia. This development…

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Chinese Hackers Use CloudScout Toolset to Steal Session Cookies from Cloud Services

A government entity and a religious organization in Taiwan were the target of a China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda that infected them with a previously undocumented post-compromise toolset codenamed CloudScout.
“The CloudScout toolset is capable of retrieving data from various cloud services by leveraging stolen web session cookies,” ESET security researcher Anh Ho said. “Through

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EU president denounces Russian influence campaigns targeting Western Balkans

Speaking at a press conference in Kosovo this weekend Ursula von der Leyen emphasized that the EU is working daily to debunk misinformation and expose Russian propaganda “for the benefit of the whole region.”

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