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ALBAWABA – A hacker from San Francisco named Noah Roskin-Frazee, was arrested on charges of defrauding Apple of $2.5 million in gift cards and various p

Southern Water, which provides water and wastewater services across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, has confirmed that data from a limited portion of its server infrastructure was compromised in a cyberattack last month.

Cybersecurity: There are several factors driving this surge in fraud attacks, such as persisting financial pressure on consumers, numerous data breaches leaking sensitive information onto the dark web and the arrival of publicly-accessible generative AI, which has lowered the technical skills required to carry out fraud.

A hacker has leaked thousands of data from Facebook marketplace users on a hacking forum. A successful hack on a Meta contractor has led to a data leak of 200,000 Facebook Marketplace user data on a hacking forum, Bleeping Computer reports.

Hackers are now using spyware to track Android devices with impunity and users have little to no defense against it.

Bank of America has warned its customers and notified authorities of the data breach. Bank of America has officially notified customers and authorities that one of its vendors, Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), suffered a data breach last year, exposing several services of the banking giant's data, thus putting its customer's personally identifiable information (PII) at risk.

A US agency has reportedly been breached last month, compromising information of more than 6,000 current and former employees.

Read about the ripple effects of the cyberattack on Lurie Childrens Hospital, causing inconvenience for patients, physicians, and clinics in the Chicago area.

Chinese state media plays the victim after revelations emerged this week of a massive state-linked Chinese cyberattack on U.S. infrastructure.

The Mirai botnet, first discovered way back in 2016, made headlines and gained infamy as the biggest botnet to hit networks the world over. It has resurfaced with multiple ways of infecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the ability to launch zero-day exploits.