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Californias Attorney General announced today that Google will pay $93 million to settle a privacy lawsuit alleging it violated the U.S. states consumer protection laws.

United Kingdoms Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said earlier today that some of its employees personal information was impacted by a ransomware attack that hit a third-party supplier.

Microsoft says an Iranian-backed threat group has targeted thousands of organizations in the U.S. and worldwide in password spray attacks since February 2023.

A new attack dubbed WiKI-Eve can intercept the cleartext transmissions of smartphones connected to modern WiFi routers and deduce individual numeric keystrokes at an accuracy rate of up to 90%, allowing numerical passwords to be stolen.

The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on Israels Mayanei Hayeshua hospital, threatening to leak 1 TB of data allegedly stolen during the cyberattack.

Microsoft says North Korean hacking groups have breached multiple Russian government and defense targets since the start of the year.

The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) announced today that an ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been impacting its website since Friday.

Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as its no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.

Trojanized Signal and Telegram apps containing the BadBazaar spyware were uploaded onto Google Play and Samsung Galaxy Store by a Chinese APT hacking group known as GREF.

Microsoft will soon allow users in the European Union, as well as from Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, to once again open all links in Windows using their default web browser rather than forcing the use of Microsoft Edge.