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France’s tax authority has confirmed that an attacker gained unauthorized access to its information systems and extracted data belonging to individuals and businesses. Separately, a hacker using the name ZeroBytes claims to have obtained cadastral records linked to more than two million property owners. The Direction générale des Finances publiques (DGFiP) disclosed the incid...

Encrypted messaging provider Threema says a series of large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks disrupted its services this week, leaving users unable to connect for several hours on Tuesday and causing intermittent outages on Wednesday morning. The company disclosed the incident today, explaining that the attacks targeted both Threema and its Swiss colocation ...

Apple has sent a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users it believes may have been targeted with mercenary spyware. The warnings are issued to people facing sophisticated surveillance attacks involving tools similar to NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Apple uses threat notifications when it detects activity suggesting a user has been individually targeted by …

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Brave is rolling out new protections to reduce browser fingerprinting through WebGL and WebGPU, two APIs that can expose detailed information about a device’s graphics hardware and drivers. The protections are enabled by default on desktop and Android and are being introduced gradually after testing in Brave’s Nightly and Beta channels. GPUs as fingerprinting signal …

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A data breach at Trezor logistics partner ShipMonk exposed the personal information of 13,689 hardware wallet customers. Trezor says its own systems and devices were not compromised, but warned affected customers to expect more convincing phishing attempts. Trezor disclosed the incident earlier today, three days after ShipMonk notified the company of unauthorized access to sy...