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Cybercrime caused over sixteen billion dollars in damages last year, according to the FBI based on its own figures.

The tech giant may have used the data for targeted advertising, according to Blue Shield, one of the largest health insurers in the United States.

Privacy advocacy group noyb has filed a formal complaint against game developer and publisher Ubisoft, accusing the company of unlawfully collecting data from players of single-player games. These titles are meant to be played without interacting with others, yet Ubisoft still requires an online connection and forces users to log in with a Ubisoft account,

Microsoft advises Windows users not to delete a folder named “inetpub. The folder is created after installing a security update for a vulnerability referred to as CVE-2025-21204. Through the security vulnerability in Windows Process Activation, an attacker who already has access to the system can gain SYSTEM privileges and thus completely compromise the machine. The

Last year, nearly one million unique WordPress sites were infected with malware, claims security company Wordfence. On any given day, between 325,000 and 350,000 sites were infected, the annual “WordPress Security Report” states. For example, the malware on WordPress sites attempts to infect visitors with malware by offering them so-called “browser updates” or redirects visitors

A vulnerability in a SuperNote tablet produced by Ratta Software allows a backdoor to be installed without any user interaction, according to findings from security firm PRIZM Labs. The issue affects the SuperNote A6 X2 Nomad, for which the manufacturer is said to have released an update. Through their research, PRIZM Labs discovered that by

Mozilla wants to integrate its own VPN solution more closely within Firefox in the coming years. In addition, a separate VPN extension will be available at addons.mozilla.org. The Firefox developer made this known during a recent Ask Me Anything on Mozilla Connect. Mozilla has been offering its own VPN solution for some time to generate

Attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in industrial routers from manufacturer Four-Faith and it is unclear whether updates are available to fix the problem, security company VulnCheck reports. This includes the F3x24 and F3x36, which are also used for unmanned systems. A vulnerability in the routers, referred to as CVE-2024-12856, allows an attacker to execute

Attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability to disable Palo Alto Networks firewalls, the company reports. Security updates for the issue have been made available. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2024-3393, resides in PAN-OS, the operating system that runs on Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls. When an unauthenticated attacker sends a malicious DNS packet to the firewall, the vulnerability

Tens of thousands of firewalls from manufacturer SonicWall that can be accessed from the internet contain critical vulnerabilities or are end-of-life. This is what security company Bishop Fox states based on its own research. The company surveyed the number of SonicWall firewalls and counted 430,000 devices. Of these, more than 20,000 were no longer supported.