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Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business
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There is gonna be an entire cottage industry of hellish "age verification" providers that will collect and then sell all their customers data without any kind of consent
...just like this one:
https://ppc.land/spain-fines-yoti-eu950-000-over-biometric-data-and-consent-failures/
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Digg shuts down due to bot and AI spam
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
"End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026." :hurb:
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
he European Parliament failed to secure enough votes to pass Chat Control so it extended a provision that grants tech platforms an exemption from EU data privacy rules if they run voluntary scans of users' DMs for CSAM and other illegal material
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Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
A Linux clipboard hijacker.... is this the first one?
I don't remember seeing anything like this before
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Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Oh look... ChatGPT sniffing Russian disinformation up its nose 700 times in 5 days
Exactly what researchers have warned about for more than a year but have been told to take a hike
https://buttondown.com/readwrite/archive/edition-11-one-mistake-ties-together-more-than/
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Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
AI is powering a new US robber baron era
https://futurism.com/future-society/jeff-bezos-buy-companies-ai
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Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
You should hate Google with the energy of 1000 burning suns for attempting to kill ad blockers in Chrome
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
There's an Android zero-day getting patched this month:
https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2026/2026-03-01
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Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
"A week-long automated attack campaign targeted CI/CD pipelines across major open source repositories, achieving remote code execution in at least 4 out of 5 targets"
👀👀👀👀👀
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/hackerbot-claw-github-actions-exploitation
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Apple and Google are testing sending encrypted RCS messages between each other's devices
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/23/google-messages-encrypted-rcs-iphone/
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Meta's new Threads micro-blogging platform and Twitter rival has been flooded with pro-PRC propaganda bots, according to a new report
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/automated-pro-china-bots-swarm-metas
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
A security firm has gained access to a malvertising test platform and used the information to help ad companies block more than 59 million malicious ads last year
https://blog.confiant.com/p/disrupting-59m-malicious-impressions
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
More than 723,000 projects use cryptographic libraries (aes-js and pyaes) with insecure defaults.
According to Trail of Bits, the issue has been known to the developers since 2022 but was never fixed.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/18/carelessness-versus-craftsmanship-in-cryptography/
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Gen Digital's Avast has released Sage, an EDR-like toolkit for AI agents, aka an ADR, an agent detection & response
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
As part of its internet crackdown, it appears that Russia's internet watchdog accidentally blocked the official website of the Linux kernel.
The block has been lifted after Russian IT engineers reminded Roskomnadzor that the country's native OS also runs on Linux
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Software engineer Brandon Li has released yt-media-storage, a tool to store files on YouTube by encoding them as lossless video files and then retrieving them when needed. This sounds like a perfect way to store malware on the site, ngl
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.
In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
Cybersecurity reporter for Risky Business # infosec # cybersecurity # security
A security researcher has discovered 287 Chrome extensions that exfiltrate a user's browsing history.
The extensions have been installed more than 37 million times.
They range from ad blockers to AI assistants and office aids.
https://qcontinuum.substack.com/p/spying-chrome-extensions-287-extensions-495
