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Ransomware, extortion groups adapt as payment rates reach historic lows

Ransomware, extortion groups adapt as payment rates reach historic lows 2025-10-27 at 15:12 By Zeljka Zorz Ransomware groups are facing an economic downturn of their own: In Q3 2025, only 23 percent of victims paid a ransom, and for data theft incidents that involved no encryption, the payment rate dropped to just 19 percent, according […]

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⚡ Weekly Recap: WSUS Exploited, LockBit 5.0 Returns, Telegram Backdoor, F5 Breach Widens

⚡ Weekly Recap: WSUS Exploited, LockBit 5.0 Returns, Telegram Backdoor, F5 Breach Widens 2025-10-27 at 15:11 By Security, trust, and stability — once the pillars of our digital world — are now the tools attackers turn against us. From stolen accounts to fake job offers, cybercriminals keep finding new ways to exploit both system flaws

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I was squeezed like a sausage inside a ‘human upgrade center’ where biohackers chase ageless beauty

I was squeezed like a sausage inside a ‘human upgrade center’ where biohackers chase ageless beauty 2025-10-27 at 14:32 By McKenzie Beard Inside Dave Asprey’s weird and wonderful biohacking lab. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

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Bitcoin finds its footing as expected US-China tariff truce cools market panic

Bitcoin finds its footing as expected US-China tariff truce cools market panic 2025-10-27 at 14:32 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The growing optimism surrounding a potential trade deal is the main catalyst for the recovery in investor sentiment ahead of Thursday’s tariff meeting, industry watchers told Cointelegraph. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

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Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won’t need security teams

Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won’t need security teams 2025-10-27 at 14:32 By Joe Fay Jen Easterly says most breaches stem from bad software, and smarter tech could finally clean it up Ex-CISA head Jen Easterly claims AI could spell the end of the cybersecurity industry, as the sloppy software

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72 states sign first global UN Convention against Cybercrime

72 states sign first global UN Convention against Cybercrime 2025-10-27 at 14:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec The world’s first global convention to prevent and respond to cybercrime opened for signature today in Hanoi, Vietnam, and will remain open at United Nations Headquarters in New York until 31 December 2026. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in

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New Firefox Extensions Required to Disclose Data Collection Practices

New Firefox Extensions Required to Disclose Data Collection Practices 2025-10-27 at 14:32 By Ionut Arghire All new extensions will be required to declare their data collection practices in their manifest file using a specific key. The post New Firefox Extensions Required to Disclose Data Collection Practices appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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Mt. Gox pushes repayments to 2026 as decade-long saga drags on

Mt. Gox pushes repayments to 2026 as decade-long saga drags on 2025-10-27 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox postponed some long-awaited customer repayments by another year to Oct. 31, 2026, citing incomplete creditor procedures. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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From outflows to inflows: Bitcoin ETPs rally amid surprising economic update

From outflows to inflows: Bitcoin ETPs rally amid surprising economic update 2025-10-27 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Bitcoin, which had been the main driver of crypto ETP outflows a week earlier, almost fully recovered its losses with $931 million in inflows last week. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

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BTC price eyes record monthly close: 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

BTC price eyes record monthly close: 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week 2025-10-27 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin rebounded to $116,000, but traders were nervous about the bull market even while stocks soared on news of a likely US-China trade deal. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

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Ransomware Payments Dropped in Q3 2025: Analysis

Ransomware Payments Dropped in Q3 2025: Analysis 2025-10-27 at 12:57 By Eduard Kovacs Coveware has attributed the drop to large enterprises increasingly refusing to pay up and smaller amounts paid by mid-market firms. The post Ransomware Payments Dropped in Q3 2025: Analysis appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Year-Old WordPress Plugin Flaws Exploited to Hack Websites

Year-Old WordPress Plugin Flaws Exploited to Hack Websites 2025-10-27 at 12:57 By Ionut Arghire Roughly 9 million exploit attempts were observed this month as mass exploitation of the critical vulnerabilities recommenced. The post Year-Old WordPress Plugin Flaws Exploited to Hack Websites appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Qilin Ransomware Combines Linux Payload With BYOVD Exploit in Hybrid Attack

Qilin Ransomware Combines Linux Payload With BYOVD Exploit in Hybrid Attack 2025-10-27 at 12:57 By The ransomware group known as Qilin (aka Agenda, Gold Feather, and Water Galura) has claimed more than 40 victims every month since the start of 2025, barring January, with the number of postings on its data leak site touching a

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Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection

Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection 2025-10-27 at 11:52 By SA Mathieson Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog The UK government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has saved £4.4 million over three years by using machine learning to tackle fraud, according to the National

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The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse

The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse 2025-10-27 at 11:37 By Rupert Goodwins When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella Opinion  When your cabbie asks you what you do for a living, and you answer “tech journalist,” you never get asked about cloud infrastructure

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The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent?

The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent? 2025-10-27 at 11:37 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols No, it’s just good at mass-production copy and paste. And yes, we’re correctly applying Betteridge’s Law Opinion  Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT’s AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching

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ChatGPT Atlas Browser Can Be Tricked by Fake URLs into Executing Hidden Commands

ChatGPT Atlas Browser Can Be Tricked by Fake URLs into Executing Hidden Commands 2025-10-27 at 11:36 By The newly released OpenAI Atlas web browser has been found to be susceptible to a prompt injection attack where its omnibox can be jailbroken by disguising a malicious prompt as a seemingly harmless URL to visit. “The omnibox

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Chrome Zero-Day Exploitation Linked to Hacking Team Spyware

Chrome Zero-Day Exploitation Linked to Hacking Team Spyware 2025-10-27 at 11:33 By Ionut Arghire The threat actor behind Operation ForumTroll used the same toolset typically employed in Dante spyware attacks. The post Chrome Zero-Day Exploitation Linked to Hacking Team Spyware appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Can your earbuds recognize you? Researchers are working on it

Can your earbuds recognize you? Researchers are working on it 2025-10-27 at 09:05 By Mirko Zorz Biometric authentication has moved from fingerprints to voices to facial scans, but a team of researchers believes the next step could be inside the ear. New research explores how the ear canal’s unique acoustic properties can be used to

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