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Telecom giant Orange warns of disruption amid ongoing cyberattack

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The telecom giant, one of the largest in the world with customers in Europe and Africa, said customers are experiencing ongoing disruption to its services due to an unspecified hack.

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New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts

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The top cybersecurity official in New York told TechCrunch in an interview that Trump’s budget cuts are going to put the government at risk from cyberattacks, and will put more pressure on states to secure themselves.

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Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hacked and systems ‘destroyed’

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Russian prosecutor said it opened a criminal investigation into the cyberattack targeting Aeroflot, the largest airline in Russia.

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Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images

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Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images.

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Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack

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Exclusive: Allianz Life said the “majority” of its customers and employees had data stolen in the July cyberattack. The company said it has notified the FBI.

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Google took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers

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Google has suspended the Firebase account of Catwatchful following a TechCrunch investigation. The spyware operation was caught using Google’s own servers to host and run its surveillance app, which was stealthily monitoring thousands of people’s phones.

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AI slop and fake reports are exhausting some security bug bounties

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“We’re getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it’s actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-generated security vulnerability reports are already having an effect on bug hunting, for better and worse.

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Hundreds of organizations breached by SharePoint mass-hacks

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One of the hacked organizations reportedly includes the U.S. agency responsible for maintaining the country’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. China-backed hackers have been observed carrying out the hacks targeting SharePoint servers.

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