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Genshin Impact’s developer to pay $20 million fine to settle FTC charges
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Friday that Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere has agreed to a $20 million settlement and several restrictions on how it sells its loot boxes and manages children’s personal data. According to the FTC, the company “actively marketed” its loot boxes to children and misled players about their odds of winning prizes. Cognosphere allegedly also “deceived…
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W3 Total Cache plugin flaw exposes 1 million WordPress sites to attacks
A severe flaw in the W3 Total Cache plugin installed on more than one million WordPress sites could give attackers access to various information, including metadata on cloud-based apps. The W3 Total Cache plugin uses multiple caching techniques to optimize a website’s speed, reduce load times, and generally improve its SEO ranking. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-12365 despite the developer releasing…
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Law firm Wolf Haldenstein notifies 3.4 million people of data breach that compromised SSNs and medical info
Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz yesterday confirmed it notified 3,445,537 people of a December 2023 data breach that compromised Social Security numbers, employee ID numbers, medical diagnoses, and medical claim information. Ransomware gang Black Basta claimed responsibility for the breach shortly after it occurred. At the time, it gave Wolf Hadenstein just over a week to pay…
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US govt says North Korea stole over $659 million in crypto last year
North Korean state-backed hacking groups have stolen over $659 million worth of cryptocurrency in multiple crypto-heists, according to a joint statement issued by the United States, South Korea, and Japan on Tuesday. The announcement also warns that threat groups linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are still actively targeting blockchain technology industry companies. “As recently as September…
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North Korea linked to crypto heists of over $650 million in 2024 alone
Hackers in North Korea stole a total of $659 million in crypto across several heists in 2024, according to a joint statement issued today by the US, Japan, and South Korea. The report specified five such incidents, like the $235 million theft from the Indian crypto exchange WazirX that is being newly attributed to the Lazarus Group. That organization is…
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45 million Americans allegedly had their location data collected and sold by this top insurance firm
If you’re asked to enable location data after downloading an app, there’s a good chance your whereabouts are being tracked. However, what happens when a company collects this data and then sells it? According to a new lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, insurance company Allstate allegedly did exactly that when it unlawfully collected, used and sold data on…
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Cryptocurrency wallet drainers stole $494 million in 2024
Scammers stole $494 million worth of cryptocurrency in wallet drainer attacks last year that targeted more than 300,000 wallet addresses. This marks a 67% increase over 2023 figures although the number of victims only rose by 3.7%, indicating that victims held more significant amounts on average. The data comes from web3 anti-scam platform ‘Scam Sniffer,’ which has been tracking wallet…
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Apple offers $95 million in Siri privacy violation settlement
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a class action lawsuit in the U.S. alleging that its Siri assistant recorded private conversations and shared them with third parties. The proposed lawsuit alleges that the audio data was disclosed without users’ consent to a network of third-party marketers and advertisers. Users complained of being targeted on their Apple devices with advertisements for…
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Tim Cook is donating $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, too
Apple CEO Tim Cook is the next tech exec to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, according to Axios. Cook’s donation follows similar commitments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos through Amazon, and Meta as Big Tech companies and executives work to curry favor with the incoming administration. Cook famously built a personal relationship…
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Over 3 million mail servers without encryption exposed to sniffing attacks
Over three million POP3 and IMAP mail servers without TLS encryption are currently exposed on the Internet and vulnerable to network sniffing attacks. IMAP and POP3 are two methods for accessing email on mail servers. IMAP is recommended for checking emails from multiple devices, such as phones and laptops because it keeps your messages on the server and synchronizes them…
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