29 Jun, 2026

Alabama man pleads guilty to hacking, extorting hundreds of women

A 22-year-old Alabama man pleaded guilty to extortion, cyberstalking, and computer fraud charges after hijacking the social media accounts of hundreds of young women (including minors). Between April 2022 and May 2025, Jamarcus Mosley impersonated the targets’ friends and used other tactics to trick his victims into handing over account recovery codes and passwords. Mosley then […]

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Florida woman imprisoned for massive Microsoft license fraud scheme

A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in prison for running a massive years-long scheme to traffic thousands of stolen Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels. 52-year-old Heidi Richards (also known as Heidi Hastings, Heidi Shaffer, and Heidi Williams), who operated an e-commerce business called Trinity Software Distribution, was also ordered to pay a […]

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UK warns of Iranian cyberattack risks amid Middle-East conflict

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) alerted British organizations to a heightened risk of Iranian cyberattacks amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. While there is no significant change in the direct cyber threat from Iran to the UK, the NCSC said this could change at any time, given how quickly the […]

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Anthropic confirms Claude is down in a worldwide outage

Claude appears to be having a major outage right now, with elevated errors reported across all platforms. The incident was flagged on March 2, 2026, and it’s impacting users broadly rather than being limited to one app or region. According to the latest status update, the team is still investigating the issue. The first “Investigating” […]

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ClawJacked attack let malicious websites hijack OpenClaw to steal data

Security researchers have disclosed a high-severity vulnerability dubbed “ClawJacked” in the popular AI agent OpenClaw that allowed a malicious website to silently bruteforce access to a locally running instance and take control over it. Oasis Security discovered the issue and reported it to OpenClaw, with a fix being released in version 2026.2.26 on February 26. OpenClaw […]

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Samsung TVs to stop collecting Texans’ data without express consent

Samsung and the State of Texas have reached a settlement agreement over the alleged unlawful collection of content-viewing information through its smart TVs As part of the agreement, the TV manufacturer will revise its privacy disclosures to clearly explain its data collection and processing practices to consumers. Last December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed […]

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QuickLens Chrome extension steals crypto, shows ClickFix attack

A Chrome extension named “QuickLens – Search Screen with Google Lens” has been removed from the Chrome Web Store after it was compromised to push malware and attempt to steal crypto from thousands of users. QuickLens was initially published as a Chrome extension that lets users run Google Lens searches directly in their browser. The extension grew […]

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$4.8M in crypto stolen after Korean tax agency exposes wallet seed

Someone jumped at the opportunity to steal $4.4 million in crypto assets after South Korea’s National Tax Service exposed publicly the mnemonic recovery phrase of a seized cryptocurrency wallet. The funds were stored in a Ledger cold wallet seized in law enforcement raids at 124 high-value tax evaders that resulted in confiscating digital assets worth […]

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Microsoft testing Windows 11 batch file security improvements

Microsoft is rolling out new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds that improve security and performance during batch file or CMD script execution. As Microsoft explained today, IT administrators can now enable a more secure processing mode that prevents batch files from being modified while they run by adding the LockBatchFilesInUse registry value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor. Policy authors can […]

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