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‼️ Monero swap site https://t.co/8SieTIvG8L confirmed 3 months of its data leaked after a $5M extortion demand.

Hudson Rock found 4,580 orders tying a public crypto deposit to a Monero address and the IP behind it.

The leak still holds 4,002 orders flagged as deleted by users.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115652343421186137
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❗️ Meta-backed Scale AI faces 5 GDPR complaints for allegedly surveilling the freelancers who train AI for OpenAI and Google.

Privacy group noyb says a tracker logs their typing and mouse moves, and they must film their face to earn money.

Scale calls the claims "unfounded".

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115666939338994151
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‼️ Meta staff weighed a "whisper strategy" to turn academics against Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, court filings show.

The March 2023 notes set a goal to "get the academic community to disavow Haidt".

"Can't co-opt them, so how do we enrage them," they add.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115682542154326101
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‼️ The FBI sent a paid informant to "befriend" an autistic teen on X three days after he turned 18, his lawyer says.

The motion says the FBI had found him no threat, then had the informant call him "Emir" and send him FBI-made propaganda.

He is charged with trying to aid ISIS.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115697641728225289
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‼️ Security firm Calif says iOS 27.2 kills most of the bugs it used to jailbreak an iPhone 18 Pro through Memory Integrity Enforcement, Apple's anti-spyware hardware.

Apple credits Calif on 6 of the 163 fixes.

The jailbreak survived a reboot, and Calif says AI helped build it.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115712741310693598
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❗️ Apple can now ask iPhone users in the UK and three other countries to scan their face to prove they're adults.

iOS 27.2 judges the selfie on the phone and in Apple's cloud before 18+ app downloads in Australia, Brazil and Singapore too.

Even a software update can trigger it.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115727840679543038
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❗️ The US Treasury sanctioned two Russians it says converted millions in crypto for North Korea's IT worker scheme.

Ilya Boykov alone handled $3.5M of it since 2024.

A North Korean-run outfit in Russia was hit too. Treasury says its IT workers use "Super Intelligence" tools.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115742940375162916
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‼️ BREAKING: US officials believe Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is the target of a Chinese spy plot.

They believe Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive seen at his side in Taiwan, is a Chinese intelligence asset.

President Trump has been briefed about the matter.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115761060292567275
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‼️ Bluesky is blocking links to the "Icepick" leak of 41,000+ DHS personnel as "malicious".

It told WIRED the files hold emails and phone numbers "shared without their authorization".

On X, Grok pointed users to a "cleaned searchable web tool" and torrents of the full archive

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115776663392813124
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‼️ Google won't fix an Android bug that lets one invisible text crash a phone's calling service, researcher Mark Blaszczyk says.

So he just released the Proof-of-Concept!

The malformed message never reaches the inbox and needs no user interaction. It drops active calls, emergency calls included.

He says about 30 sent in a row corrupt the phone's SMS database, so a Pixel 9 or Samsung Galaxy crashes on every boot. A factory reset only helps until the carrier delivers the texts again.

He reported it to Google on 5 May. Google closed it as "Won't Fix" and a "Non-Security Issue".

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115792768723476603
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‼️ Jack Dorsey's Block used AI to find a way to crash Bitcoin nodes on Windows, macOS and BSD.

A malicious peer can send TCP urgent data that slips past Bitcoin Core's memory limit until the node runs out and crashes. Linux is not affected.

Bitcoin Core patched it in 29.5,

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2115807113822003478
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