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Cybercrime Groups ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider Join Forces in Extortion Attacks on Businesses

August 12, 2025 Blogmaster

An ongoing data extortion campaign targeting Salesforce customers may soon turn its attention to financial services and technology service providers, as ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider appear to be working hand…

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Appeals Court Affirms ICE Can’t Arrest People Just For Looking Latino; ICE Immediately Ignores Ruling

August 12, 2025 Blogmaster

Three weeks ago, California federal court judge Maame E. Frimpong issued an order blocking ICE from pretending looking a bit foreign was reasonably suspicious enough to justify stops, much less…

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China tells Alibaba, ByteDance to justify purchases of Nvidia AI chips

August 12, 2025 Blogmaster

Beijing is demanding tech companies including Alibaba and ByteDance justify their orders of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chips, complicating the US chipmaker’s business in China after striking an export arrangement…

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New ‘Curly COMrades’ APT Using NGEN COM Hijacking in Georgia, Moldova Attacks

August 12, 2025 Blogmaster

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Curly COMrades has been observed targeting entities in Georgia and Moldova as part of a cyber espionage campaign designed to facilitate long-term access to…

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The Ultimate Battle: Enterprise Browsers vs. Secure Browser Extensions

August 12, 2025 Blogmaster

Most security tools can’t see what happens inside the browser, but that’s where the majority of work, and risk, now lives. Security leaders deciding how to close that gap often…

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Trump FCC Installs Babysitter At CBS To Ensure The Network Kisses King Donald’s Ass

August 12, 2025 Blogmaster

With the cowards at CBS/Paramount having paid their $16 million bribe, Trump’s FCC was quick to rubber-stamp its approval to the company’s $8 billion merger with Skydance (owned by Trump’s…

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Dutch NCSC Confirms Active Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler CVE-2025-6543 in Critical Sectors

August 12, 2025 Blogmaster

The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) has warned of cyber attacks exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC products to breach organizations in the country.…

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Seventh Circuit Shuts Down Indiana’s Unconstitutional Police Buffer Zone Law

August 11, 2025 Blogmaster

Although the Supreme Court has yet to say so itself (and probably won’t any time soon, given its current composition), it’s generally accepted that citizens have the right to film…

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The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

August 11, 2025 Blogmaster

It’s been less than a week since the launch of OpenAI’s new GPT-5 AI model, and the rollout hasn’t been a smooth one. So far, the release sparked one of…

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High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

August 11, 2025 Blogmaster

A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The attacks backdoor computers that open malicious archives attached to phishing…

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