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An Australian pilot who recently …
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Dec 25, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Cybersecurity / Hacking News
It’s getting harder to tell where normal tech ends and malicious intent begins. Attackers are no longer just breaking in — …
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Dec 25, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Data Breach / Financial Crime
The encrypted vault backups stolen from the 2022 LastPass data breach have enabled bad actors to take advantage of weak master …
Late last month, fires engulfed Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve – Etosha National Park. An analysis of satellite imagery by Bellingcat has found that more than a third of the park was …
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Editor’s note: Vladislav Gillung officially changed his name to Vladislav Romanov in his twenties. …
An investigation by Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged bulk carrier, Irtysh (IMO: 9664976), operating in defiance of Western sanctions by exporting grain from occupied Crimea to …
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This investigation is part of a collaboration between Bellingcat and Evident. You can watch Evident’s …
Warning: Contains written descriptions of extreme violence including murder. All graphic footage has been omitted.
A Bellingcat investigation has identified and verified the exact location of a mass …
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Dec 25, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Vulnerability / Enterprise Security
Fortinet on Wednesday said it observed “recent abuse” of a five-year-old security flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN in the …
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Dec 25, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Vulnerability / Endpoint Security
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a security flaw impacting Digiever DS-2105 Pro network …
A new apartment in the Mirapolis complex comes with panoramic views of the city. The property developer boasts easy access to shops and schools, with colourful mock-ups showing families and manicured …
Attacks by a jihadist group on fuel convoys bound for Bamako, the capital of Mali, have destroyed more than 130 tankers since September, a Bellingcat investigation has found.
The systematic attacks by …
The Cossacks played an important role in the formation of the Russian Empire. They lived in communities called hosts on the edges of the empire. They operate under a military hierarchy ruled by a …
The rise of powerful large language models (LLMs) that can be consumed via API calls has made it remarkably straightforward to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into applications. …
Quality assurance (QA) testing has long been the backbone of software development, but traditional QA approaches haven’t kept pace with modern development cycles and complex UIs. Most organizations …
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) transforms how organizations handle unstructured document data, enabling automatic extraction of valuable information from invoices, contracts, and reports. …
Enterprise organizations increasingly rely on web-based applications for critical business processes, yet many workflows remain manually intensive, creating operational inefficiencies and compliance …
Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats This is pretty scary :
Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, …
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Dec 24, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Online Fraud / Artificial Intelligence
The fraudulent investment scheme known as Nomani has witnessed an increase by 62%, according to data from ESET, as campaigns …
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Dec 24, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Malware / Endpoint Security
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a macOS information stealer called MacSync that’s delivered by means of …
There’s a certain feeling I get when I file freedom-of-information ( FOI ) requests. It’s similar to how I feel at the DMV , perhaps, or at the passport renewal office–the feeling that a …
This post is cowritten with Sangeetha Bharath and Seemal Zaman from Visa.
Across every industry, agentic AI is redefining how work gets done by shifting digital experiences from manual, user-driven …
Marketing teams face increasing pressure to create engaging campaigns quickly while maintaining brand consistency and creative quality. Traditional marketing campaign creation processes often involve …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against multiple companies for their alleged involvement in an elaborate cryptocurrency scam that swindled more than $14 million …
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Dec 24, 2025 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Privacy / Antitrust
Apple has been fined €98.6 million ($116 million) by Italy’s antitrust authority after finding that the company’s App Tracking …