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Over 1 million WordPress sites at risk after popular plugin hacked — OptinMonster among those hit in CDN supply-chain attack

Three popular plugins served malicious JavaScript through a compromised CDN.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot can be turned into a one-click data theft tool — inbox, OneDrive, and SharePoint data all at risk, so patch now

Varonis found a way to chain three bugs into one exploit that can lead to data exfiltration.

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Google says Chinese hackers cracked Workspace security to hit ‘a diverse set of national, state, and private medical entities’ including research and defense organizations

Google warns of ongoing data theft campaign attributed to Chinese nation-state attacker.

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FBI gives first peek inside 22,000-square-foot town it’s built for digital crime training — the ‘one of a kind’ facility has a gas station, houses, and a data center with 200 hackable servers

The FBI has built a town with homes, businesses and hackable servers to help train its cyber agents.

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Will the World Cup be safe? New report finds huge surge in cyberattacks targeting professional sports organizations

AI is amplifying cybersecurity risk around major sporting events, researchers find.

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‘Our research suggests that there are real risks associated with these sites’: Experts say some job-search platforms are stealing personal data from job seekers

Many sites may be selling their users’ data to third parties without them knowing.

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Novo Nordisk reveals cyberattack: Ozempic and Wegovy maker says clinical trials data breached

The company says the data is pseudonymous and apparently can’t be linked to actual people.

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FBI takes out huge AI-powered phishing service: Outsider Enterprise was using over a million phishing URLs to steal credit card data and passwords

Servers, Telegram bots, and money, all seized by the authorities.

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AMD denies researcher $10,000 bug bounty reward — despite spotting critical-severity issue

The company updated its bug bounty disclosure rules retroactively.

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Security firm signs up Conan O’Brien for corporate training videos — will celebrity firepower be enough to keep us focused on safety?

Adaptive Security recruited Conan O’Brien for cybersecurity training videos aimed at helping employees recognize phishing deepfakes and AI-enabled fraud.
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