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  • Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

    Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports 2025-05-07 at 13:55 By Connor Jones Lead dev likens flood to ‘effectively being DDoSed’ Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated “slop” bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining…

  • BlueVoyant introduces Continuous Optimization for Microsoft Security

    BlueVoyant introduces Continuous Optimization for Microsoft Security 2025-05-07 at 13:55 By Industry News BlueVoyant launched its Continuous Optimization for Microsoft Security (COMS) offering. COMS improves security outcomes, helps customers stay ahead of cyber threats, and minimizes technology costs by drawing on BlueVoyant’s expertise with the Microsoft Security stack. The Microsoft Security suite provides maximum cyber…

  • AppSignal Raises $22 Million for Application Monitoring Solution

    AppSignal Raises $22 Million for Application Monitoring Solution 2025-05-07 at 13:55 By Ionut Arghire Application performance monitoring provider AppSignal has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by Elsewhere Partners. The post AppSignal Raises $22 Million for Application Monitoring Solution appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View…

  • Play Ransomware Exploited Windows CVE-2025-29824 as Zero-Day to Breach U.S. Organization

    Play Ransomware Exploited Windows CVE-2025-29824 as Zero-Day to Breach U.S. Organization 2025-05-07 at 13:55 By Threat actors with links to the Play ransomware family exploited a recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows as a zero-day as part of an attack targeting an unnamed organization in the United States. The attack, per the Symantec Threat…

  • Ransomware Attackers Leveraged Privilege Escalation Zero-day

    Ransomware Attackers Leveraged Privilege Escalation Zero-day 2025-05-07 at 13:31 By Threat Hunter Team Exploit used by Play-linked attackers targets the CVE-2025-29824 zero-day vulnerability patched on April 8. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

  • Ransomware Attackers Leveraged Privilege Escalation Zero-day

    Ransomware Attackers Leveraged Privilege Escalation Zero-day 2025-05-07 at 13:31 By Threat Hunter Team Exploit used by Play-linked attackers targets the CVE-2025-29824 zero-day vulnerability patched on April 8. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

  • Ransomware Attackers Leveraged Privilege Escalation Zero-day

    Ransomware Attackers Leveraged Privilege Escalation Zero-day 2025-05-07 at 13:31 By Threat Hunter Team Exploit used by Play-linked attackers targets the CVE-2025-29824 zero-day vulnerability patched on April 8. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source React to this headline:

  • Ethereum’s Pectra network upgrade goes live today: What to expect

    Ethereum’s Pectra network upgrade goes live today: What to expect 2025-05-07 at 13:03 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Ethereum — the network that unleashed smart contracts on the world — moves on to the next chapter with today’s Pectra upgrade, but what does it really mean? Pectra is scheduled to go live on Ethereum mainnet…

  • Actively exploited FreeType flaw fixed in Android (CVE-2025-27363)

    Actively exploited FreeType flaw fixed in Android (CVE-2025-27363) 2025-05-07 at 13:03 By Zeljka Zorz Google has released fixes for a bucketload of Android security vulnerabilities, including a FreeType flaw (CVE-2025-27363) that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” About CVE-2025-27363 CVE-2025-27363 is an out of bounds write vulnerability in FreeType, an open-source software library that renders…

  • Second Ransomware Group Caught Exploiting Windows Flaw as Zero-Day

    Second Ransomware Group Caught Exploiting Windows Flaw as Zero-Day 2025-05-07 at 13:02 By Eduard Kovacs At least two ransomware groups exploited the Windows zero-day CVE-2025-29824 before it was patched by Microsoft. The post Second Ransomware Group Caught Exploiting Windows Flaw as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original…

  • Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

    Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift? 2025-05-07 at 12:38 By Richard Speed Windows 11’s hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play? Comment  Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has weighed in on the increasingly heated discussion regarding the impending end of Windows 10. Are Windows 11’s hardware requirements all about security…

  • What is Tornado Cash, and why did it get into trouble?

    What is Tornado Cash, and why did it get into trouble? 2025-05-07 at 12:16 By Cointelegraph by Dilip Kumar Patairya What is Tornado Cash? Tornado Cash is a decentralized, non-custodial crypto mixer designed to enhance transaction privacy on public blockchains. It uses smart contracts and zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs to conceal the onchain link between the…

  • Bhutan launches tourism crypto payments with Binance Pay and DK Bank

    Bhutan launches tourism crypto payments with Binance Pay and DK Bank 2025-05-07 at 12:16 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Bhutan, known for investments in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, has launched a tourism crypto payment system in partnership with Binance Pay and DK Bank. The system allows Bhutan travelers with Binance accounts to pay for services like…

  • Hacken CEO sees ‘no shift’ in crypto security as April hacks hit $357M

    Hacken CEO sees ‘no shift’ in crypto security as April hacks hit $357M 2025-05-07 at 12:16 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Despite the $1.4 billion lost in the recent Bybit hack, crypto companies have not changed their approach to cybersecurity, according to Hacken CEO Dyma Budorin.  In an interview with Cointelegraph at the Token2049 event…

  • Second OttoKit Vulnerability Exploited to Hack WordPress Sites

    Second OttoKit Vulnerability Exploited to Hack WordPress Sites 2025-05-07 at 12:16 By Ionut Arghire Threat actors are targeting a critical-severity vulnerability in the OttoKit WordPress plugin to gain administrative privileges. The post Second OttoKit Vulnerability Exploited to Hack WordPress Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React…

  • Agenda Ransomware Group Adds SmokeLoader and NETXLOADER to Their Arsenal

    Agenda Ransomware Group Adds SmokeLoader and NETXLOADER to Their Arsenal 2025-05-07 at 11:48 By During our monitoring of Agenda ransomware activities, we uncovered campaigns that made use of the SmokeLoader malware and a new loader we’ve named NETXLOADER. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to…

  • Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

    Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support 2025-05-07 at 11:35 By Liam Proven Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped Kernel 6.15 is taking shape and it looks like it will eliminate support for Intel’s 486 chip and its contemporaries.… This article is…

  • Researchers Uncover Malware in Fake Discord PyPI Package Downloaded 11,500+ Times

    Researchers Uncover Malware in Fake Discord PyPI Package Downloaded 11,500+ Times 2025-05-07 at 11:35 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a seemingly harmless Discord-related utility but incorporates a remote access trojan. The package in question is discordpydebug, which was uploaded to PyPI on…

  • US Warns of Hackers Targeting ICS/SCADA at Oil and Gas Organizations

    US Warns of Hackers Targeting ICS/SCADA at Oil and Gas Organizations 2025-05-07 at 11:17 By Ionut Arghire The US government warns of threat actors targeting ICS/SCADA systems at oil and natural gas organizations. The post US Warns of Hackers Targeting ICS/SCADA at Oil and Gas Organizations appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt…

  • Tether launches on Kaia, brings USD₮ to LINE’s 196M user ecosystem

    Tether launches on Kaia, brings USD₮ to LINE’s 196M user ecosystem 2025-05-07 at 11:05 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Tether has deployed its flagship stablecoin, USD₮, on the Kaia blockchain as part of a broader collaboration with Line Next, the Web3 arm of Line, Japan’s popular messaging platform with over 196 million monthly active users.…

  • Bitcoin pushes for $98K as 2025 Fed rate cut odds flip ‘pessimistic’

    Bitcoin pushes for $98K as 2025 Fed rate cut odds flip ‘pessimistic’ 2025-05-07 at 11:05 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Key points: Bitcoin and gold trade in lockstep on low timeframes as macro volatility triggers heighten. The Federal Reserve interest rate decision and news conference are just hours away. Market sentiment for rate cuts in…

  • Metaplanet reaches 5,555 Bitcoin milestone with latest 555 BTC buy

    Metaplanet reaches 5,555 Bitcoin milestone with latest 555 BTC buy 2025-05-07 at 11:05 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Japan’s Metaplanet purchased an additional 555 Bitcoin as part of its aggressive accumulation strategy, bringing its total holdings to 5,555 BTC, valued at over $536 million at current prices. On May 7, the Tokyo-listed firm disclosed that…

  • Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists

    Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists 2025-05-07 at 10:32 By Thomas Claburn Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams ‘use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines’ Fans and writers of science fiction are not necessarily enthusiastic about artificial intelligence – especially when it’s used to vet…

  • North Korean Hacker Caught Trying to Land Job at US Tech Company

    North Korean Hacker Caught Trying to Land Job at US Tech Company 2025-05-07 at 10:25 View original post at Safety Detectives Kraken, one of the world’s oldest and most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges, has exposed an attempt by a North Korean hacker to get a job at the company. Although Kraken was immediately suspicious of the…

  • 41 Countries Taking Part in NATO’s Locked Shields 2025 Cyber Defense Exercise

    41 Countries Taking Part in NATO’s Locked Shields 2025 Cyber Defense Exercise 2025-05-07 at 10:17 By Eduard Kovacs The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Estonia is hosting the Locked Shields 2025 cyber defense exercise. The post 41 Countries Taking Part in NATO’s Locked Shields 2025 Cyber Defense Exercise appeared first on SecurityWeek.…

  • Voltage Finance exploiter moves $182K in ETH to Tornado Cash

    Voltage Finance exploiter moves $182K in ETH to Tornado Cash 2025-05-07 at 10:03 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte A hacker involved in the $4.67 million exploit of the decentralized finance lending protocol Voltage Finance in 2022 has moved some of the stolen Ether to Tornado Cash after a short hibernation.  Blockchain security firm CertiK said…

  • Bigger Bitcoin wallets are stacking while others sell: Santiment

    Bigger Bitcoin wallets are stacking while others sell: Santiment 2025-05-07 at 10:03 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Key takeaways: Large Bitcoin holders have accumulated 81,338 BTC over the past six weeks, showing confidence in a future price uptrend. Wallets with less than 0.1 BTC sold around 290 BTC, indicating smaller retail investors are either panic…

  • Digital welfare fraud: ALTSRUS syndicate exploits the financially vulnerable

    Digital welfare fraud: ALTSRUS syndicate exploits the financially vulnerable 2025-05-07 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz A new report from bot defense firm Kasada has exposed the growing threat of ALTSRUS, a fraud syndicate targeting some of the most vulnerable corners of the digital economy. Researchers revealed how the group has scaled its operations to steal…

  • NSO Group Fined $168M for Targeting 1,400 WhatsApp Users With Pegasus Spyware

    NSO Group Fined $168M for Targeting 1,400 WhatsApp Users With Pegasus Spyware 2025-05-07 at 09:46 By A federal jury on Tuesday decided that NSO Group must pay Meta-owned WhatsApp WhatsApp approximately $168 million in monetary damages, more than four months after a federal judge ruled that the Israeli company violated U.S. laws by exploiting WhatsApp…

  • Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs

    Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs 2025-05-07 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Seeing as the company’s CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious World War Fee  Citrix has found a new use for virtualization: Avoiding tariffs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source…

  • BlackRock Bitcoin ETF clocks 16 days of inflow as BTC reclaims $97K

    BlackRock Bitcoin ETF clocks 16 days of inflow as BTC reclaims $97K 2025-05-07 at 09:05 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Investors have been piling into BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund for over three weeks straight, culminating in the asset’s run up to $97,000 on May 7. The BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust has seen 16 days…

  • South Korea presidential front-runner pledges to approve Bitcoin ETFs

    South Korea presidential front-runner pledges to approve Bitcoin ETFs 2025-05-07 at 09:05 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea South Korea’s Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung has reportedly become the latest presidential candidate to promise the approval of spot crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other crypto-friendly measures, should he be elected. Lee announced his crypto promises on…

  • Rethinking AppSec: How DevOps, containers, and serverless are changing the rules

    Rethinking AppSec: How DevOps, containers, and serverless are changing the rules 2025-05-07 at 08:32 By Mirko Zorz Application security is changing fast. In this Help Net Security interview, Loris Gutic, Global CISO at Bright, talks about what it takes to keep up. Gutic explains how DevOps, containers, and serverless tools are shaping security, and shares…

  • Hackers Claim To Steal Files From App Used by Trump Adviser

    Hackers Claim To Steal Files From App Used by Trump Adviser 2025-05-07 at 08:17 By Hackers have claimed to steal messages from TeleMessage, an app apparently used by Trump’s former national security adviser.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

  • World Liberty Financial floats USD1 airdrop to WLFI holders

    World Liberty Financial floats USD1 airdrop to WLFI holders 2025-05-07 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Trump family-backed crypto platform World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is proposing to airdrop a small amount of its new US dollar-pegged stablecoin to reward early WLFI holders in a test of its airdrop mechanism. With over 99% of votes…

  • Coinbase x402 payments protocol to make AI agents more autonomous

    Coinbase x402 payments protocol to make AI agents more autonomous 2025-05-07 at 08:02 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Coinbase has introduced a new payments protocol for online payments that enables stablecoin transfers over standard internet protocols and AI agents to transact autonomously.   On May 6, Coinbase announced that it is launching a protocol called x402…

  • Autorize: Burp Suite extension for automatic authorization enforcement detection

    Autorize: Burp Suite extension for automatic authorization enforcement detection 2025-05-07 at 08:02 By Help Net Security Autorize is an open-source Burp Suite extension that checks if users can access things they shouldn’t. It runs automatic tests to help security testers find authorization problems. Autorize installation To use Autorize, you’ll need Burp Suite and Jython. Here’s…

  • 1 in 3 workers keep AI use a secret

    1 in 3 workers keep AI use a secret 2025-05-07 at 07:33 By Help Net Security Employees are feeling heightened concerns around the use of technology to enhance productivity, as well as job dissatisfaction and a lack of motivation at work. In fact, 30% of employees who use GenAI tools at work worry their job…

  • New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts

    New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts 2025-05-07 at 07:19 By Simon Sharwood Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote New Zealand’s government has signaled its support for a bill to ban social media for children under 16,…

  • Bitcoin must hold above $95K or face short-term rejection: Bitfinex

    Bitcoin must hold above $95K or face short-term rejection: Bitfinex 2025-05-07 at 07:02 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Key takeaways: Bitcoin must maintain above $95,000 to have a chance at retesting its $109,000 all-time high; failure to hold could lead to a deeper correction, crypto analysts warn. Several crypto analysts told Cointelegraph in March that…

  • Zerebro dev’s death in question as ‘proof’ surfaces on X

    Zerebro dev’s death in question as ‘proof’ surfaces on X 2025-05-07 at 07:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Members of the crypto community are circulating apparent “proof” that Zerebro developer Jeffy Yu faked his suicide as he promoted his new memecoin during a Pump.fun livestream on May 4. The belief appears to come from an…

  • Democrats aim at Trump’s crypto profits with a 3-prong pincer move

    Democrats aim at Trump’s crypto profits with a 3-prong pincer move 2025-05-07 at 07:02 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte US Democrat lawmakers have launched a multi-angle attack on President Donald Trump’s crypto ventures with two bills and a subcommittee inquiry aimed at cutting his ability to profit from the initiatives.    The Modern Emoluments and Malfeasance…

  • Personal data of top executives easily found online

    Personal data of top executives easily found online 2025-05-07 at 07:01 By Help Net Security The personal information of 75% of corporate directors can be found on people search sites, according to Incogni. People search sites claim to reveal a variety of personal details, including public records, phone numbers, and even property values. Home addresses…

  • Preventing Burnout in The Security Industry

    Preventing Burnout in The Security Industry 2025-05-07 at 07:01 By Burnout can happen at any level of an organization, especially in a fast-paced environment like security. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

  • Trump’s trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev

    Trump’s trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev 2025-05-07 at 05:01 By Tobias Mann But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off AMD expects the Trump administration’s newly implemented export controls on GPUs and AI accelerator sales to China to…

  • Trump’s wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington

    Trump’s wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington 2025-05-07 at 03:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo We’d be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech’s renewable energy ambitions aren’t known in the White House The Attorneys General of 17 states and Washington, DC have sued the Trump administration…

  • Bitwise throws NEAR ETF in race for SEC approval with S-1 filing

    Bitwise throws NEAR ETF in race for SEC approval with S-1 filing 2025-05-07 at 03:05 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Digital asset manager Bitwise has filed to list a spot Near exchange-traded fund with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, adding to a growing list of altcoins currently vying to win regulatory approval. The Bitwise…

  • Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp snoop drama

    Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp snoop drama 2025-05-07 at 03:05 By Iain Thomson Don’t f&#k with Zuck A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in WhatsApp to allow its government customers to spy…

  • Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments

    Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments 2025-05-07 at 01:48 By Thomas Claburn Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly collected in violation of a federal injunction intended to…

  • US regulator moves to drop appeal against Kalshi

    US regulator moves to drop appeal against Kalshi 2025-05-07 at 01:03 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking permission from the court to drop an appeal against prediction market Kalshi. The move could allow the platform to offer political event contracts to users without contest. In a May…

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