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Sophisticated Android spyware KoSpy, linked to North Korean hacking group ScarCruft (APT37), has targeted users in South Korea, Japan, India, Russia, and the Middle East since March 2022.

Read more here: https://t.co/2TzV4hZDZb

#KoSpy #NorthKorea #InfoSec

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Google tightens Chrome extension affiliate advertising policies following controversy over PayPal's Honey extension, which allegedly manipulated affiliate links to collect commissions from already-paid influencer promotions.
https://t.co/OHtpoX9lDT

#HoneyScam #ChromeExtension

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Apple releases critical security update for iPhones and iPads to patch zero-day vulnerability CVE-2025-24201 in WebKit, which powers Safari and all iOS browsers, amid reports of sophisticated active exploitation.
https://t.co/Gt8NTZGFpk

#ZeroDay #Apple #iPad

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Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) secures registration with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) as part of its strategy to resume full-scale trading in India.

More details here: https://t.co/9w0bbPNHCV

#Coinbase #India

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Indian government successfully rescues 283 nationals who were deceived by false job offers in Southeast Asia and forced into cybercrime operations, coordinating their evacuation from Thailand.

Read more here: https://t.co/qOntBxca2U

#Scam #Phishing

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Reliance Industries' Jio Platforms partners with Elon Musk's SpaceX to bring Starlink satellite internet to India, following Airtel's similar move.

More details here: https://t.co/TH3AWtpVU5

#Jio #Starlink #ElonMusk

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Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) secures registration with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) as part of its strategy to resume full-scale trading operations in the Indian market.
https://t.co/9w0bbPNHCV

#Coinbase #Crypto #India

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North Korea's Lazarus Group infiltrates npm with six malicious packages including is-buffer-validator and react-event-dependency, designed to compromise developer environments, steal credentials, and extract cryptocurrency.
https://t.co/C8sRIywcaE

#LazarusGroup #NPM

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Delhi Police arrests four scammers who extorted Rs 44.50 lakh from a victim by impersonating CBI officials in a sophisticated digital arrest scheme targeting unsuspecting citizens.

More details here: https://t.co/N2g99SWzPI

#DigitalArrests #InfoSec

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Major brands including JioHotstar, Louis Vuitton, and Tata Solar fight legal battles against fraudulent websites impersonating their brands, which deceive consumers, compromise data security, and damage corporate reputations.
https://t.co/4blrIjjVNa

#InfoSec #JioHotstar

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Cryptocurrency users face sophisticated phishing attacks disguised as Binance emails offering free Trump coins, which instead install ConnectWise RAT malware, giving hackers complete device control within minutes.
https://t.co/oNfRgLiBi0

#ConnectWise #TrumpCoins #InfoSec

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Microsoft's TTD framework contains four critical CPU instruction emulation flaws that could compromise security, produce unreliable debugging results, and mislead forensic investigations when analysing Windows applications.
https://t.co/vdlaXaDPyn

#TTD #InfoSec #Microsoft

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Cybercriminals create fake DeepSeek websites like deepseek-pc-ai[.]com to trick users into downloading malware disguised as an official AI client, exploiting the fact that no legitimate DeepSeek desktop application actually exists.
https://t.co/L5qrZjBOfV

#DeepSeek #Malware

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Ex-policy director Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges Meta offered content oversight to the Chinese Communist Party and suppressed political dissent in exchange for market access.

More details here: https://t.co/0yGELgWdrb

#Meta #CCP

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North Korean hacking group Moonstone Sleet has begun deploying Qilin ransomware since February, marking their first use of a Ransomware-as-a-Service.

More details here: https://t.co/VU4N2FO3xi

#MoonstoneSleet #NorthKorea #Hack

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Storm-0408's massive malvertising campaign has infected nearly one million devices globally by using illegal streaming sites to redirect users through malicious websites to GitHub-hosted malware payloads.
https://t.co/5HKuX6sXUm

#Malware #InfoSec

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Malicious Python package 'set_utils' targets blockchain projects, secretly stealing private keys while posing as a harmless utility library.

More details here: https://t.co/MKC08kgvC2

#Python #Ethereum

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Brazil's Federal Regional Court reinstates injunction against Apple, requiring the tech giant to allow alternative app stores on iOS within 90 days.

More details here: https://t.co/xGNYMN8YjS

#iOS #Apple #Brazil

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Albion Online forum users were targeted by a Russian phishing campaign pretending to be a security alert from the Electric Frontier Foundation.
https://t.co/Q5xh0mWx5C

#Phishing

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Google's AI faced 258 reports of extremist content and 86 CSAM reports in 10 months, while major tech platforms show inadequate measures against harmful AI-generated content.

More details here: https://t.co/6HVZaZcNYs

#CSAM #Gemini #AI