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β€ŠPornHub blocks North Carolina, Montana over new age verification laws

Adult media giant Aylo has blocked access to many of its websites, including PornHub, to visitors from Montana and North Caroline as new age verifications laws go into effect. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pornhub-blocks-north-carolina-montana-over-new-age-verification-laws/
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β€ŠNigerian hacker arrested for stealing $7.5M from charities

A Nigerian national was arrested in Ghana and is facing charges related to business email compromise (BEC) attacks that caused a charitable organization in the United States to lose more than $7.5 million. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nigerian-hacker-arrested-for-stealing-75m-from-charities/
β€ŠMandiant’s account on X hacked to push cryptocurrency scam

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mandiants-account-on-x-hacked-to-push-cryptocurrency-scam/
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β€Š'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages

Over the holidays, the npm package registry was flooded with more than 3,000 packages, including one called "everything," and others named a variation of the word. These 3,000+ packages make it impossible for all npm authors to unpublish their packages from the registry. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/everything-blocks-devs-from-removing-their-own-npm-packages/
β€ŠFTC offers $25,000 prize for detecting AI-enabled voice cloning

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started accepting submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, a public competition with a $25,000 top prize for ideas that protect consumers from the danger of AI-enabled voice cloning for fraudulent activity. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-offers-25-000-prize-for-detecting-ai-enabled-voice-cloning/
β€ŠCrypto wallet founder loses $125,000 to fake airdrop website

A crypto wallet service co-founder shares with the world his agony after losing $125,000 to a crypto scam. The startup CEO, who at the time believed he was on a legitimate cryptocurrency airdrop website, realized after his loss that the domain he'd went on was setup for the purposes of phishing unsuspecting users. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crypto-wallet-founder-loses-125-000-to-fake-airdrop-website/
β€ŠHackers target Apache RocketMQ servers vulnerable to RCE attacks

Security researchers are detecting hundreds of IP addresses on a daily basis that scan or attempt to exploit Apache RocketMQ services vulnerable to a remote command execution flaw identified as CVE-2023-33246 and CVE-2023-37582. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-apache-rocketmq-servers-vulnerable-to-rce-attacks/
β€ŠUS charged 19 suspects linked to xDedic cybercrime marketplace

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the end of a transnational investigation into the dark web xDedic cybercrime marketplace, charging 19 suspects for their involvement in running and using the market's services. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-charged-19-suspects-linked-to-xdedic-cybercrime-marketplace/
β€ŠKyberSlash attacks put quantum encryption projects at risk

Multiple implementations of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism for quantum-safe encryption, are vulnerable to a set of flaws collectively referred to as KyberSlash, which could allow the recovery of secret keys. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kyberslash-attacks-put-quantum-encryption-projects-at-risk/