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2025 Year-End Review: The Impact of Major Cyber and Data Breaches on Cybersecurity Skills | Tech News

Year-Ender 2025: A Call to Action in Cybersecurity As 2025 draws to a close, it serves as a stark reminder of the escalating threats facing organizations across the globe. This year witnessed a surge in significant security and data breaches that shattered the sense of safety for large corporations, governmental…

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LockBit Ransomware Takes Advantage of Critical Citrix Bleed Vulnerability for Infiltration

Recent cybersecurity alerts highlight the exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler application delivery control (ADC) and Gateway appliances by numerous threat actors, including affiliates of the notorious LockBit ransomware group. This new wave of attacks takes advantage of CVE-2023-4966, a severe flaw that has allowed adversaries to infiltrate…

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Zero-Day Alert: Active Exploitation of New Vulnerability in Google Chrome

Google has distributed critical security updates addressing seven vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, one of which is a high-severity zero-day exploit currently being weaponized in the wild. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-6345, is classified as an integer overflow flaw within Skia, an open-source 2D graphics library frequently utilized in web…

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22-Year-Old Hacker Confesses to Role in 2014 Yahoo Breach, Acknowledges Assistance to Russian Intelligence

Kazakhstan-Born Hacker Enters Guilty Plea in Massive Yahoo Data Breach Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old Canadian citizen originally from Kazakhstan, has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a significant data breach that compromised all three billion Yahoo accounts in 2014. The U.S. Justice Department previously announced charges against Russian intelligence officers…

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15,000 GitHub Go Module Repositories at Risk of Repojacking Attacks

GitHub Vulnerability Exposes Over 15,000 Go Repositories to Repojacking Attacks Recent research has unveiled that more than 15,000 Go module repositories on GitHub are at risk of repojacking attacks, a significant cybersecurity concern. Jacob Baines, Chief Technology Officer at VulnCheck, reported that over 9,000 of these vulnerabilities stem from changes…

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Qualcomm Unveils Information on Chip Vulnerabilities Targeted in Specific Attacks

Qualcomm Issues Security Advisory for High-Severity Flaws In recent developments, chipmaker Qualcomm has disclosed significant information regarding three critical security vulnerabilities that were reportedly exploited in targeted attacks as of October 2023. The company emphasized that these flaws were subjected to “limited, targeted exploitation,” raising alarms about their implications for…

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New Bluetooth Vulnerability Could Allow Hackers to Control Android, Linux, macOS, and iOS Devices

A significant security vulnerability affecting Bluetooth technology poses risks to Android, Linux, macOS, and iOS devices. Identified as CVE-2023-45866, this flaw allows malicious actors to bypass authentication procedures, enabling unauthorized access to susceptible devices and the capability to execute commands remotely. According to security researcher Marc Newlin, who disclosed these…

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Facebook Harvested Your Android Call History and SMS Data for Years

A recent incident has underscored the extent of data collection by Facebook, particularly concerning its Messenger application installed on Android devices. Reports indicate that until late last year, Facebook was collecting users’ contact lists, SMS, and call history data without explicit user consent, raising serious privacy concerns. The situation gained…

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