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Irish Regulators Fine Facebook $414 Million for Forcing Users to Accept Targeted Ads
Jan 05, 2023Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Data Protection The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta Platforms €390 million (roughly…
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Facebook to Pay $725 Million to settle Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Data Leak
Dec 27, 2022Ravie LakshmananData Security / Privacy Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has agreed to…
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Glupteba Botnet Continues to Thrive Despite Google’s Attempts to Disrupt It
Dec 19, 2022Ravie LakshmananBlockchain / Botnet The operators of the Glupteba botnet resurfaced in June 2022 as part of a…
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Google Wins Lawsuit Against Russians Linked to Blockchain-based Glupteba Botnet
Google has won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals in connection with the operation of a botnet called Glupteba,…
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Google to Pay $391 Million Privacy Fine for Secretly Tracking Users’ Location
Internet giant Google has agreed to pay a record $391.5 million to settle with 40 states in the U.S. over…
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Modified WhatsApp App Caught Infecting Android Devices with Malware
An unofficial version of the popular WhatsApp messaging app called YoWhatsApp has been observed deploying an Android trojan known as…
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Facebook Detects 400 Android and iOS Apps Stealing Users Log-in Credentials
Meta Platforms on Friday disclosed that it had identified over 400 malicious apps on Android and iOS that it said…
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U.S. Seizes Cryptocurrency Worth $30 Million Stolen by North Korean Hackers
More than $30 million worth of cryptocurrency plundered by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group from online video game Axie Infinity…
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FTC Sues Data Broker Over Selling Location Data for Hundreds of Millions of Phones
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday said it filed a lawsuit against Kochava, a location data broker, for…
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U.S. FCC Commissioner Asks Apple and Google to Remove TikTok from App Stores
One of the commissioners of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has renewed calls asking for Apple and Google to…
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