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DeepSeek blocked from app stores in South Korea
South Korea privacy watchdog has temporarily halted downloads of DeepSeek DeepSeek is working with authorities to get compliant Latest in a series of privacy concerns raised about AI chatbots South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has temporarily halted new downloads of Chinese-owned AI chatbot DeepSeek. Reports from TechCrunch confirm…
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Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS sees authentication bypass under attack from hackers
Palo Alto Networks fixes authentication bypass PAN-OS flaw A day after the patch was released, criminals started looking for vulnerable endpoints The flaw allows them to run different PHP scripts A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks firewalls is being abused in in-the-wild attacks, researchers are saying. The company recently found,…
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Amazon EC2 instances under fire from whoAMI attacks potentially giving hackers code execution access
A flaw named WhoAMI was found in Amazon Machine Image It allows threat actors to gain RCE abilities on people’s AWS accounts A fix has been released, but many users are still yet to update Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are potentially vulnerable to a name confusion attack called “whoAMI”,…
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Microsoft Outlook targeted by new malware attacks allowing sneaky hijacking
Security researchers spot new piece of malware called FinalDraft It gets commands from a drafted email It can exfiltrate data, run PowerShell, and more Cybersecurity researchers from Elastic Security Labs have discovered a new piece of malware which abuses draft email messages in Outlook for data exfiltration, PowerShell execution, and…
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Worrying YouTube security flaw exposed billions of user emails
A researcher has discovered a worrying YouTube security vulnerability The flaw allowed outsiders to gain access to all YouTube account emails This has since been patched, so users should update as soon as possible Experts have warned that any email from a YouTube account could be pulled from Google with…
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Zacks Investment hit in data breach – 12 million users potentially at risk
A hacker posted a new thread on an underground forum They claim to have stolen data on 12 million people from Zacks Investment Research Zacks hasn’t responded to media inquiries yet Zacks Investment Research, a financial data, stock research, and analysis company based in Chicago, apparently suffered a cyberattack in…
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