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A settlement has been reached in the class action brought by investors against Meta over the Cambridge Analytica incident, but details have not been shared.

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Cybersecurity startup Empirical Security has raised $12 million in seed funding for its vulnerability management platform. 

Karen Serobovich Vardanyan pleaded not guilty to charges related to his alleged role in the Ryuk ransomware operation.

Deployed on mobile devices confiscated by Chinese law enforcement, Massistant can collect user information, files, and location.

An $8 billion class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta stemming from the 2018 privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

Four CVEs disclosed at the Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 hacking competition have been patched in VMware products.

Cisco has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in Cisco ISE that leads to remote code execution (RCE).

Oracle’s July 2025 Critical Patch Update contains 309 security patches that address approximately 200 unique CVEs.

More than 1,000 suspects were arrested in raids in at least five provinces between Monday and Wednesday, according to Information Minister Neth Pheaktra and police.

Codenamed Eastwood, the operation targeted the so-called NoName057(16) group, which was identified as being behind a series of DDoS attacks on municipalities and organizations linked to a NATO summit.

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Kenna Security co-founder Ed Bellis has joined Empirical Security as Chief Executive Officer.

Robert Shaker II has joined application security firm ActiveState as Chief Product and Technology Officer.

MorganFranklin Cyber has promoted Nick Stallone and Ferdinand Hamada into newly created roles.

Jessica Newman has joined Sophos as General Manager of Global Cyber Insurance.

Breach and attack simulation solutions provider AttackIQ has appointed Pete Luban as Field Chief Information Security Officer.

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Oracle’s July 2025 Critical Patch Update contains 309 security patches that address approximately 200 unique CVEs.

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Cyberattack disrupted UNFI’s operations in June; company estimates $50–$60 million net income hit but anticipates insurance will cover most losses.

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Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon targeted a National Guard unit’s network and tapped into communications with other units.

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DragonForce says it stole more than 150 gigabytes of data from US department store chain Belk in a May cyberattack.

A vulnerability affecting systems named End-of-Train and Head-of-Train can be exploited by hackers to cause trains to brake. 

Louis Vuitton customers in the UK, South Korea, Turkey and possibly other countries are being notified of a data breach.

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Application Delivery Networking provider Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), this week announced the release of a software plug-in that will allows enterprises running its PackerShaper appliances to discover, monitor, assess and control Apple software updates.

A former senior database administrator for GEXA Energy in Houston was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for hacking into his former employer's computer network.Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, of Houston pleaded guilty on Nov. 16, 2009, to one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage. Kim was also ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to GEXA Energy and to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.

World Cup fans continue to be prime targets for cybercriminals this summer with new mobile viruses targeting smart-phone users looking for the latest news and content surrounding the international soccer tournament being held in South Africa this year.

The number of spam messages approached 6 billion for the month of January and never dipped below 3.5 billion during the past six months, according to SaaS e-mail and web security provider AppRiver’s mid-year Threat and Spamscape report.

The third installment of the "Twilight" franchise, “Eclipse,” which premiered this week, is breaking records for a midnight opening and fans are searching in the masses for any details about the film they can find online. Cyber criminals know this and have already "poisoned" common search results hoping to gain access to people's computers and infect them with malware.

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RevEng.ai has raised $4.15 million in seed funding for an AI platform that automatically detects malicious code and vulnerabilities in software.

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