<p>Schools in Toronto and North Carolina are reporting extortion attempts.</p>

<p>The venture capital firm has over $90 billion in assets under management, including cybersecurity giants.</p>

<p>The cybersecurity company said it will lay off 5% of its global workforce. </p>

<p>As &#8220;vibe coding&#8221; gains in popularity and tech companies push devs in their employ to embrace generative AI tools, a platform that scans for vulnerabilities in AI-generated code has raised a fresh round of funding. Ox Security, which models risk across both AI- and human-produced code, on Wednesday announced that it closed a $60 million [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The five-year legal battle between the Meta-owned company and the most notorious spyware maker in the world ends with a huge win for WhatsApp. </p>

<p>A hacker has exploited a vulnerability in TeleMessage, which provides modded versions of encrypted messaging apps such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp, to extract archived messages and other data relating to U.S. government officials and companies who used the tool, 404 Media reported. TeleMessage came into the spotlight last week after it was reported that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hackers claiming to be part of the hacktivist group Anonymous claimed the data breach. </p>

<p>Riot’s “anti-cheat artisan” Phillip Koskinas explains how he and his team go after cheaters and cheat developers to protect the integrity of games, such as Valorant and League of Legends. </p>

<p>The app claims it uses end-to-end encryption, but spilled its users&#8217; dating preferences and granular location data to the open web.</p>

<p>Two alleged victims came forward claiming they received a spyware notification from Apple. </p>

<p>The U.K. grocery and retail giant said the unspecified cyber incident is affecting its back office and call centers.</p>

<p>The ruling, which has yet to take effect, was ordered under India&#8217;s online blocking laws.</p>

<p>Governments like China and North Korea, along with spyware makers, used the most recorded zero-days in 2024.</p>

<p>The researchers said the attackers behind the campaign had &#8220;deep understanding of the target community.&#8221;</p>

<p>4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the person responsible for the hack apparently leaking data, including a list of moderators and “janitors” (one janitor told TechCrunch they were “confident” that the leaked data was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he had been mistakenly added to an unauthorized Signal group chat by U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, where numerous high-ranking [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Connecticut&#8217;s largest healthcare provider said it was hit by ransomware in March.</p>

<p>The health insurance giant is notifying at least 4.7 million patients of the security lapse.</p>

<p>AI-generated code is no doubt changing how software is built, but it’s also introducing new security challenges. More than 50% of organizations encounter security issues with AI-produced code sometimes or frequently, according to a late 2023 survey by developer security platform Synk. For Endor Labs, that opportunity proved alluring enough that it chose to change [&hellip;]</p>