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South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over massive data breach

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South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped e-commerce giant Coupang with a record-breaking 624.7 billion won ($409 million) fine, the largest data breach penalty in the country’s history. The ruling, handed down today by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), dwarfs the previous record of 134.8 billion won imposed on telecoms firm SK Telecom last year. The […]

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Avast’s former CEO built an AI that found every OpenSSL zero-day this year. Now it runs inside air-gapped networks.

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AISLE, the cybersecurity startup founded by former Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek, launched Snapshot on Tuesday, a product that deploys its AI vulnerability scanner inside a customer’s private cloud, on-premises data centre, or fully air-gapped environment. Source code and security data never leave the organisation’s control. The product is aimed squarely at regulated industries, banks, defence […]

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The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday

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Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher Microsoft threatened with criminal prosecution, has published a seventh Windows zero-day exploit. Called RoguePlanet, it grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 machines. The researcher released the proof-of-concept hours after Microsoft shipped its June Patch Tuesday update, which fixed a record 200 vulnerabilities. RoguePlanet exploits a […]

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Researchers tricked an OpenClaw AI agent into leaking AWS keys and customer data with a phishing email

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Security researchers at Varonis built an OpenClaw email agent, connected it to a Gmail inbox with fake company data, and then phished it. The agent, dubbed Pinchy, handed over AWS credentials, database connection strings, and a customer export without verifying who was asking. It took a single impersonation email. The experiment tested whether AI agents […]

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A Chinese state-linked botnet has grown to 1,500 hacked routers and is mapping vulnerable targets within hours of disclosure

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A covert botnet linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers has more than doubled in size and is now scanning for newly disclosed vulnerabilities within hours of publication. The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 compromised small office and home office routers, firewalls, and IoT devices, according to new research from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Most of the […]

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KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s computer, then shared the files with its CEO

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KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s work computer to extract documents detailing their allegations of data misuse, then shared the material with senior partners and the firm’s former chief executive, the Australian Financial Review has reported. The global accounting firm had the legal right to access an employee’s work laptop. What makes it striking […]

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Aryon Security raises $29M to stop cloud breaches before they happen

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Aryon Security, an Israeli cloud-security startup, has raised $29M in a Series A round to push a prevention-first approach to securing the cloud. The round, which the company says brings its total funding to $38M, was led by US-based Brightmind Partners. The investor list is the headline. Shlomo Kramer’s Skinos Ventures, Datadog, Blumberg Capital, and […]

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Your face is the ticket: Google’s Gemini and biometric gates are the World Cup’s quieter tech story

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The 2026 World Cup is rolling out two layers of technology that most of its 10 million visitors will actually touch: a consumer-AI layer led by Google, and a biometric-identity layer that turns a fan’s face into a ticket. This is the quieter half of the tournament’s tech, the half aimed at fans rather than […]

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Two Russian APT groups are exploiting a WinRAR flaw patched nearly a year ago to hit Ukraine

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Two Russian state-linked hacking groups are actively exploiting a path traversal vulnerability in WinRAR that was patched nearly a year ago, using it to deploy credential-stealing malware against Ukrainian government and military targets, according to research published by Trend Micro. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-8088 and rated 8.4 on the CVSS scale, allows attackers to […]

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Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related

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Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased facial recognition system from its smart glasses companion app on Friday, one day after WIRED reported that the software had been quietly embedded in an app installed on more than 50 million phones. The feature, which Meta internally called NameTag, was designed to convert faces captured by […]

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