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Rainbow Six Siege Outage: Ubisoft Brings Severs Online After Massive Backend Breach
Ubisoft has begun rolling back player data after a major breach disrupted Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, but has not shared a timeline for server restoration. The attack forced a global shutdown after in-game systems were manipulated, causing account issues, in-game economic disruption, and random bans. Ubisoft says the rollback is being handled...
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Government Says Sanchar Saathi App Optional, Can Be Removed; Apple Reportedly Plans to Oppose Mandatory Installation
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) recently directed smartphone makers to preload the Sanchar Saathi app on new devices. Reports suggested that OEMs would also have to ensure that users could not uninstall or disable the state-owned cybersecurity app. However, the government has now issued clarification on the same, stating that keeping it ...
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CERT-In Warns Google Chrome Users of ‘High Risk’ Vulnerabilities on Windows, macOS, and Linux
CERT-In has issued an advisory regarding multiple vulnerabilities affecting Google Chrome on various operating systems. The latest bulletin, published on Friday, has flagged the discovered vulnerabilities as high risk. As per the cybersecurity firm, threat actors may potentially exploit the security flaws to remotely execute arbitrary code on the a...
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Researchers Claim to Uncover Billions of WhatsApp-Registered Phone Numbers Using Automation Techniques
WhatsApp’s contact-discovery flaw let researchers match 3.5 billion phone numbers to active accounts. By exploiting the absence of rate limits, they checked vast number ranges to see which were registered. They also found that many users exposed their profile photos and About texts publicly. The team even identified millions of accounts in countr...
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Cloudflare Outage That Impacted ChatGPT, X, Dropbox Users Resolved
Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up "it results in massive digital gridlock" for internet users, cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said.
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Perplexity, Anthropic and Other Big AI Companies Might Have Exposed Secrets on GitHub
A new report by cloud security firm Wiz claims that 65 percent of leading AI companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, and Mistral, have exposed sensitive data on GitHub. The leaked information reportedly includes API keys, model details, and credentials. Wiz researchers say the issue stems from developers unintentionally sharing confidential dat...
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Android Phones Susceptible to ‘Pixnapping’ Attack That Steals 2FA Codes, Messages and More, Researchers Say
Android devices are susceptible to a new type of attack that can covertly steal two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, private messages, location timelines, and other data. Security researchers have devised this new attack, called Pixnapping, which can exploit loopholes and security flaws in Android without requiring any system permissions. As per ...
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Did Jaguar Land Rover Lose 40,000 New Cars? Here's The Truth
A recent report suggested that JLR has lost track of 40,000 new cars while dealing with cybersecurity issues.
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Google Debunks Gmail Security Warning Reports, Calls It Entirely False
Google has denied all claims of Gmail suffering a data breach or alerting 2.5 billion users about the same. On Monday, the Mountain View-based tech giant published a blog post and highlighted that any information around this information is “entirely false.” The company also urged outlets to ensure that conversation in this space is accurate and...
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ChatGPT’s Shared Conversations Were Reportedly Discoverable on Google Search, OpenAI Calls It Experiment
ChatGPT has a feature that allows users to create a URL of their conversation with the chatbot and share it with friends or colleagues. As per a report, some of these shared conversations were discoverable when running a query on search engines such as Google Search, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. To see these conversations, one reportedly needs to filter th...
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Meta AI Vulnerability That Could Leak Users’ Private Conversations Fixed: Report
Meta AI reportedly had a vulnerability that could be exploited to access other users’ private conversations with the chatbot. As per the report, a researcher found the bug late last year and informed the Menlo Park-based social media giant about it. The company then deployed a fix to the issue in January, and rewarded the researcher for finding t...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Crawler Can Be Used to Trigger DDoS Attack on Websites, Researcher Claims
OpenAI’s ChatGPT application programming interface (API) has a vulnerability that can be exploited to initiate a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on websites, claimed a cybersecurity researcher. As per the claims, the issue results in sending thousands of network requests to a website using the ChatGPT crawler. The researcher claimed t...
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US President Donald Trump Revokes Executive Order on Addressing AI Risks
US President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that aiming to reduce the risks that AI poses to customers. The order also directed agencies to set standards for that testing and address related chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks.
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Rapido Reportedly Fixes Security Flaw That Exposed User and Driver Information
Rapido has addressed a security flaw that exposed user and driver personal information via a feedback form, revealing names, email addresses, and phone numbers, according to a TechCrunch report. Discovered by a security researcher, the issue has been acknowledged and resolved by securing the portal to prevent unauthorised access and potential scams...
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Star Health Insurance Reportedly Confirms Being Target of a Cyberattack Last Month, Claims Lost Data
Star Health, one of the biggest health insurance companies in India, has reportedly confirmed that it was the target of a malicious cyberattack that led to bad actors getting access to “certain data” illegally. The incident was first reported last month, but the insurer refused to make any comments before an internal investigation. The company ...
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Rainbow Six Siege Outage: Ubisoft Brings Severs Online After Massive Backend Breach
Ubisoft has begun rolling back player data after a major breach disrupted Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, but has not shared a timeline for server restoration. The attack forced a global shutdown after in-game systems were manipulated, causing account issues, in-game economic disruption, and random bans. Ubisoft says the rollback is being handled...
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Government Says Sanchar Saathi App Optional, Can Be Removed; Apple Reportedly Plans to Oppose Mandatory Installation
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) recently directed smartphone makers to preload the Sanchar Saathi app on new devices. Reports suggested that OEMs would also have to ensure that users could not uninstall or disable the state-owned cybersecurity app. However, the government has now issued clarification on the same, stating that keeping it ...
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CERT-In Warns Google Chrome Users of ‘High Risk’ Vulnerabilities on Windows, macOS, and Linux
CERT-In has issued an advisory regarding multiple vulnerabilities affecting Google Chrome on various operating systems. The latest bulletin, published on Friday, has flagged the discovered vulnerabilities as high risk. As per the cybersecurity firm, threat actors may potentially exploit the security flaws to remotely execute arbitrary code on the a...
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Researchers Claim to Uncover Billions of WhatsApp-Registered Phone Numbers Using Automation Techniques
WhatsApp’s contact-discovery flaw let researchers match 3.5 billion phone numbers to active accounts. By exploiting the absence of rate limits, they checked vast number ranges to see which were registered. They also found that many users exposed their profile photos and About texts publicly. The team even identified millions of accounts in countr...
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Cloudflare Outage That Impacted ChatGPT, X, Dropbox Users Resolved
Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up "it results in massive digital gridlock" for internet users, cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said.
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Perplexity, Anthropic and Other Big AI Companies Might Have Exposed Secrets on GitHub
A new report by cloud security firm Wiz claims that 65 percent of leading AI companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, and Mistral, have exposed sensitive data on GitHub. The leaked information reportedly includes API keys, model details, and credentials. Wiz researchers say the issue stems from developers unintentionally sharing confidential dat...
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Android Phones Susceptible to ‘Pixnapping’ Attack That Steals 2FA Codes, Messages and More, Researchers Say
Android devices are susceptible to a new type of attack that can covertly steal two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, private messages, location timelines, and other data. Security researchers have devised this new attack, called Pixnapping, which can exploit loopholes and security flaws in Android without requiring any system permissions. As per ...
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Did Jaguar Land Rover Lose 40,000 New Cars? Here's The Truth
A recent report suggested that JLR has lost track of 40,000 new cars while dealing with cybersecurity issues.
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Google Debunks Gmail Security Warning Reports, Calls It Entirely False
Google has denied all claims of Gmail suffering a data breach or alerting 2.5 billion users about the same. On Monday, the Mountain View-based tech giant published a blog post and highlighted that any information around this information is “entirely false.” The company also urged outlets to ensure that conversation in this space is accurate and...
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ChatGPT’s Shared Conversations Were Reportedly Discoverable on Google Search, OpenAI Calls It Experiment
ChatGPT has a feature that allows users to create a URL of their conversation with the chatbot and share it with friends or colleagues. As per a report, some of these shared conversations were discoverable when running a query on search engines such as Google Search, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. To see these conversations, one reportedly needs to filter th...
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Meta AI Vulnerability That Could Leak Users’ Private Conversations Fixed: Report
Meta AI reportedly had a vulnerability that could be exploited to access other users’ private conversations with the chatbot. As per the report, a researcher found the bug late last year and informed the Menlo Park-based social media giant about it. The company then deployed a fix to the issue in January, and rewarded the researcher for finding t...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Crawler Can Be Used to Trigger DDoS Attack on Websites, Researcher Claims
OpenAI’s ChatGPT application programming interface (API) has a vulnerability that can be exploited to initiate a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on websites, claimed a cybersecurity researcher. As per the claims, the issue results in sending thousands of network requests to a website using the ChatGPT crawler. The researcher claimed t...
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US President Donald Trump Revokes Executive Order on Addressing AI Risks
US President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that aiming to reduce the risks that AI poses to customers. The order also directed agencies to set standards for that testing and address related chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks.
-
Rapido Reportedly Fixes Security Flaw That Exposed User and Driver Information
Rapido has addressed a security flaw that exposed user and driver personal information via a feedback form, revealing names, email addresses, and phone numbers, according to a TechCrunch report. Discovered by a security researcher, the issue has been acknowledged and resolved by securing the portal to prevent unauthorised access and potential scams...
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Star Health Insurance Reportedly Confirms Being Target of a Cyberattack Last Month, Claims Lost Data
Star Health, one of the biggest health insurance companies in India, has reportedly confirmed that it was the target of a malicious cyberattack that led to bad actors getting access to “certain data” illegally. The incident was first reported last month, but the insurer refused to make any comments before an internal investigation. The company ...
