The FCC has fined four major U.S. wireless carriers – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon – a total of nearly $200 million for unlawfully selling access to their customers’ real-time location data without consent.
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Additionally, the tech giant reports that it identified and blocked 333,000 Google Play accounts that uploaded malware, fraudulent apps, or engaged in repeated grave policy violations.
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Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, is set to acquire the U.K.-based cybersecurity company Darktrace in a deal valued at around $5 billion. The deal is pending shareholder approval and is expected to be finalized by the end of 2024.
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Researchers found a novel infection chain associated with the DarkGate malware, which is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) developed using Borland Delphi and marketed as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) offering on a Russian-language cybercrime forum.
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In its report, the GAO highlighted “new and continuing” shortcomings with information systems and the safeguarding of assets, issues that increase the likelihood of unauthorized access to sensitive IRS data.
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The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is calling on manufacturers of smart devices to comply with new legislation that prohibits them from using default passwords, effective April 29, 2024.
“The law, known as the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure act (or PSTI act), will help consumers to choose smart devices that have been designed to
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Zloader, a modular trojan based on the leaked ZeuS source code, has recently introduced a new anti-analysis feature in versions 2.4.1.0 and 2.5.1.0 to prevent execution on machines that differ from the original infection.
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CEOs of major tech companies are joining a new artificial intelligence safety board to advise the federal government on how to protect the nation’s critical services from “AI-related disruptions.”
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The CVE-2024-27322 security vulnerability in R’s deserialization process gives attackers a way to execute arbitrary code in target environments via specially crafted files.
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Okta warns users that the attack requests are made through an anonymizing service like Tor or various commercial proxy networks.
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