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Bys sÉmile Marzolf, Ellen O’Regan, and Eliza Gkritsi report: The European Union’s unveiling of a mobile app to check people’s age online has quickly turned sour, as cybersecurity experts found glaring privacy and security problems with the code. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented the age-verification tool in Brussels on Wednesday, saying it was……
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The Iranian nation-state hacking group known as Charming Kitten has been observed deploying a C++ variant of a known malware called BellaCiao. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which dubbed the new version BellaCPP, said it discovered the artifact as part of a “recent” investigation into a compromised machine in Asia that was also infected with the…
DeepSeek AI Database Exposed: Over 1 Million Log Lines, Secret Keys Leaked
Bys sBuzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric rise in popularity in recent days, left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious actors to gain access to sensitive data. The ClickHouse database “allows full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data,”…
AI-driven medical benefits servicer hit with data breach
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Kaiser fires security exec amid disputed allegations involving a police database breach
Bys sJakob Emerson reports on what is a disputed claim of insider-wrongdoing: Kaiser Permanente has terminated its national director of corporate security investigations, Craig Chew, amid allegations he received confidential data from a California criminal database accessed by an Oakland police officer, the Mercury News reported April 6. Mr. Chew, a former police officer, was fired along with…
GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension
Bys sGitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension. The development comes as the Nx team revealed that the extension, nrwl.angular-console, was breached after one of its…