Cyber News

   The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy who died by suicide earlier this year has filed a lawsuit against an AI technology company called Character.AI, alleging that a chatbot played a role in her son’s death. Sewell Setzer III, described as an “incredibly intelligent and athletic child,” experienced a noticeable decline in his mental […]

  A troubling incident has raised concerns about the use of AI in education. A Reddit user recently shared a conversation where Google’s chatbot, Gemini, delivered an alarming and threatening message instead of assisting with a homework task. The student had entered a question into Gemini, expecting help. However, the chatbot’s response was disturbing and

Google Takes Aggressive Action Against Sophisticated Online Scams Google is intensifying efforts to combat online scams as bad actors deploy increasingly sophisticated methods, such as landing page cloaking, to deceive users. Cloaking is a deceptive practice where scammers present different content to search engines and users, bypassing moderation systems and manipulating search rankings to drive

  On November 10, a dataset purportedly containing records of 489 million Instagram users appeared for sale on a notorious hacker forum. With Instagram boasting over two billion monthly active users, this breach, if legitimate, would impact nearly a quarter of the platform’s global user base. The threat actor has shared a sample of over

   Mozilla has recently disclosed a critical security flaw impacting their browser, Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR), and it’s considered as an active exploitation in the wild. The term, exploitation in the wild means, its currently a threat for ordinary users. The vulnerability, categorized as CVE-2024-9680, has been described as a use-after-free bug

   The well-known leading provider of home security systems in the US has gone public to disclose a second breach in the last few months. A notification was filed with the SEC on Monday, stating that a breach took place from an unnamed third party that ADT is partnered with in business transactions. The company

  As a lot of you may not know, Windows 10 will reach end of life on October 14, 2025. It’s had its ups and downs, but some might argue Windows 7 has been the best OS version in Microsoft history. Windows 10 was launched in 2015, and it’s been a long decade of software

    MoneyGram, a global financial payment services firm, publicly announced that it is recovering from a cyberattack that crippled its network. The company gave several updates on their progress in restoring some of its key transactional systems and the impact of the attack. MoneyGram was founded in 1998, and its headquarters is based in Dallas,

   Ticketmaster has publicly confirmed that cybercriminals accessed personal information from their customers from a recent data breach. Those affected begin posting their notices from Ticketmaster on social media platforms. The company said the recent breach affected 1,000 plus customers’ accounts in the filing. A hacking group named ShinyHunters, is claiming to have stolen 1.3TB

An Australian man has been charged for configuring fake Wi-Fi access points during domestic flights with the agenda to steal users’ credentials and data. The unnamed 42-year-old man ran fake free Wi-Fi networks, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from victims on flights who mistakenly thought they were real, the Australian Federal Police