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The Australian parliament has approved a bill to amend the countrys privacy legislation, significantly increasing the maximum penalties to AU$50 million for companies and data controllers who suffered large-scale data breaches.

Googles Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has linked an exploit framework that targets now-patched vulnerabilities in the Chrome and Firefox web browsers and the Microsoft Defender security app to a Spanish software company.

Microsoft has released the November optional KB5020044 preview cumulative update for all editions of Windows 11, version 22H2.

Spanish National Police have dismantled a cybercrime organization that used fake investment sites to defraud over €12.3 million ($12.8 million) from 300 victims across Europe.

Hackers are capitalizing on a trending TikTok challenge named Invisible Challenge to install malware on thousands of devices and steal their passwords, Discord accounts, and, potentially, cryptocurrency wallets.

Google has released an emergency security update for the desktop version of the Chrome web browser, addressing the eighth zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks this year.

Microsoft is investigating LSASS memory leaks (caused by Windows Server updates released during the November Patch Tuesday) that might lead to freezes and restarts on some domain controllers.

New ransomware attacks targeting organizations in Ukraine first detected this Monday have been linked to the notorious Russian military threat group known as Sandworm.

The Vice Society ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, with the threat actors now leaking data allegedly stolen during the attack.

A threat actor associated with cyberespionage operations since at least 2017 has been luring victims with fake VPN software for Android that is a trojanized version of legitimate software SoftVPN and OpenVPN.