TikTok fined €530 million for sending European user data to China
SkyNet Automation The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the…
May 2025
Microsoft fixes Exchange Online bug flagging Gmail emails as spam
Microsoft has resolved an issue with a machine learning model that mistakenly flagged emails from Gmail accounts as…
Microsoft makes all new accounts passwordless by default
Microsoft has announced that all new Microsoft accounts will be “passwordless by default” to secure them against password…
Hacker ‘NullBulge’ pleads guilty to stealing Disney’s Slack data
A California man who used the alias “NullBulge” has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney’s internal Slack channels…
Pro-Russia hacktivists bombard Dutch public orgs with DDoS attacks
Russia-aligned hacktivists persistently target key public and private organizations in the Netherlands with distributed denial of service (DDoS)…
Ukrainian extradited to US for Nefilim ransomware attacks
A Ukrainian national has been extradited from Spain to the United States to face charges over allegedly conducting…
Harrods the next UK retailer targeted in a cyberattack
London’s iconic department store, Harrods, has confirmed it was targeted in a cyberattack, becoming the third major UK…
Harrods the the next UK retailer targeted in a cyberattack
London’s iconic department store, Harrods, has confirmed it was targeted in a cyberattack, becoming the third major UK…
Malicious PyPI packages abuse Gmail, websockets to hijack systems
Seven malicious PyPi packages were found using Gmail’s SMTP servers and WebSockets for data exfiltration and remote command…
Hackers abuse IPv6 networking feature to hijack software updates
A China-aligned APT threat actor named “TheWizards” abuses an IPv6 networking feature to launch adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks that…