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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Capital One hacker’s sentence reversed, Google patches critical Chrome vulnerability, the story of an Expat flaw. 

The Cloak ransomware group has claimed responsibility for a February cyberattack on Virginia Attorney General’s Office.

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Cato Networks discovers a new LLM jailbreak technique that relies on creating a fictional world to bypass a model’s security controls.

The FishMonger APT group, a subdivision of Chinese cybersecurity firm I-Soon, compromised seven organizations in a 2022 campaign.

Industry professionals comment on Google acquiring cloud security giant Wiz for $32 billion in cash.

The Hellcat ransomware group claims to have stolen tens of gigabytes of data from Ascom and Jaguar Land Rover.

Former NFL and University of Michigan assistant football coach Matt Weiss hacked into the computer accounts of thousands of college athletes seeking intimate photos and videos.

More details have come to light on the recent supply chain attack targeting GitHub Actions, including its root cause.

Analysis reveals a 140% increase in browser phishing, including a 130% increase in zero-hour phishing attacks.

Real-time event and risk detection firm Dataminr has raised $85 million from NightDragon and HSBC to accelerate AI development.

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Life360 has appointed Vari Bindra, former Amazon cybersecurity lead, as Chief Information Security Officer.

Forcepoint has appointed Guy Shamilov as CISO, Bakshi Kohli as CTO and Naveen Palavalli as CPO and CMO.

Paul Calatayud has been named CISO of developer security posture management firm Archipelo.

Cyber readiness and response firm Sygnia has appointed Avi Golan as its new CEO.

Cybersecurity firm Absolute Security announced Harold Rivas as its new CISO.

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More details have come to light on the recent supply chain attack targeting GitHub Actions, including its root cause.

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Attacks involving Paragon’s Graphite spyware involved a WhatsApp zero-day that could be exploited without any user interaction.

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A long-running campaign phishing for credentials through scareware recently switched to targeting macOS users.

Google has confirmed reports that it’s buying cloud security giant Wiz and says it’s prepared to pay $32 billion in cash.

A year-old vulnerability in a third-party ChatGPT tool is being exploited against financial entities and US government organizations.

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