May 2025

Argentina’s Milei shuts down task force investigating LIBRA scandal 2025-05-20 at 20:04 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Argentine President Javier Milei has dissolved a task force established to investigate the fallout from LIBRA, the scandalous cryptocurrency project the head of state promoted on his social media channel before it crashed to zero.  The Investigative Task […]

Hazy Hawk Exploits DNS Records to Hijack CDC, Corporate Domains for Malware Delivery 2025-05-20 at 20:03 By A threat actor known as Hazy Hawk has been observed hijacking abandoned cloud resources of high-profile organizations, including Amazon S3 buckets and Microsoft Azure endpoints, by leveraging misconfigurations in the Domain Name System (DNS) records. The hijacked domains

Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 2025-05-20 at 19:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu New generative AI products mean new higher prices for individual Adobe Creative Cloud customers, unless they downgrade to a version with

Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms 2025-05-20 at 19:02 By Connor Jones Update before that proof-of-concept comes to bite Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a fresh flaw in the JavaScript implementation of OpenPGP (OpenPGP.js) that allows both signed and encrypted messages to be spoofed.… This article is an

The crypto market values chains more than standalone applications 2025-05-20 at 18:23 By Cointelegraph by Hatu Sheikh Opinion by: Hatu Sheikh, founder of Coin Terminal Although blockchains and DApps are critical, crypto industry stakeholders often prioritize applications based on adoption principles and revenue distribution. DApps won’t function without their underlying chains. The markets must uphold

Governance in the Age of Citizen Developers and AI 2025-05-20 at 18:23 By A quiet revolution has been happening inside enterprise walls: business users are building their own software.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

100+ Fake Chrome Extensions Found Hijacking Sessions, Stealing Credentials, Injecting Ads 2025-05-20 at 18:23 By An unknown threat actor has been attributed to creating several malicious Chrome Browser extensions since February 2024 that masquerade as seemingly benign utilities but incorporate covert functionality to exfiltrate data, receive commands, and execute arbitrary code. “The actor creates websites

AWS Default IAM Roles Found to Enable Lateral Movement and Cross-Service Exploitation 2025-05-20 at 18:23 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered risky default identity and access management (IAM) roles impacting Amazon Web Services that could open the door for attackers to escalate privileges, manipulate other AWS services, and, in some cases, even fully compromise AWS accounts.

The Crowded Battle: Key Insights from the 2025 State of Pentesting Report 2025-05-20 at 18:23 By In the newly released 2025 State of Pentesting Report, Pentera surveyed 500 CISOs from global enterprises (200 from within the USA) to understand the strategies, tactics, and tools they use to cope with the thousands of security alerts, the

Nvidia part of plans for mega 1.4 GW AI datacenter near Paris 2025-05-20 at 17:57 By Dan Robinson Say something nice? At least France has nuclear power, though its grid needs work Europe’s largest AI datacenter campus is to be built near Paris in France, according to blueprints released by a joint venture formed by

Urgent warning to iPhone users — turn off popular feature and take these steps for safety 2025-05-20 at 17:43 By Brooke Steinberg Apple’s AirPlay feature is beloved by many users — but it can leave you vulnerable to hackers. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post

Senate stablecoin vote splits Democrats amid concerns over corruption 2025-05-20 at 17:02 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood US Senate Democrats are getting flak after they helped move stablecoin legislation ahead for discussion on the Senate floor. On May 19, 16 Democratic senators broke from the party line to pass a motion to invoke cloture, which

Robinhood proposes SEC rules for tokenized real-world assets 2025-05-20 at 17:02 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Robinhood submitted a 42-page proposal to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), calling for a national framework to regulate tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). The brokerage is seeking to modernize financial infrastructure by making tokenized assets legally equivalent to

Kraken expands in Europe with regulated crypto derivatives 2025-05-20 at 17:02 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced the launch of regulated derivatives trading on its platform under the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). According to a May 20 announcement, Kraken’s perpetual and fixed maturity crypto futures contracts will

Actors’ union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader 2025-05-20 at 17:02 By Iain Thomson I’m altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further The union representing American actors has complained about Llama Production, which is owned by Epic Games, over the use of generative AI in a new character for Fortnite.… This

Avalanche-backed Fusion launches with $100M to boost blockchain adoption 2025-05-20 at 16:17 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Avalanche, Helix and Faculty Group have launched Fusion, a new blockchain ecosystem aimed at driving real-world adoption through modular infrastructure tailored to specific industries. Built on Avalanche, Fusion features a two-layer architecture that includes composers, customizable layer-1 networks

India’s Supreme Court urges government to regulate cryptocurrency 2025-05-20 at 16:17 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski India’s Supreme Court questioned the government’s lack of regulatory clarity on cryptocurrencies despite imposing taxes on digital assets like Bitcoin. According to the Indian legal news outlet LawChakra, the country’s Supreme Court expressed concern over the increasing use of

Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell 2025-05-20 at 16:17 By Richard Speed Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows? Build  Microsoft has brought back an old favorite to the Windows command line interface: Edit, a text editor harking back to the halcyon days of DOS and text