Infosec.Pub

Suzanne Smalley / The Record: Austria's privacy regulator finds that Microsoft violated EU law by illegally tracking students through Microsoft 365 Education, after noyb's complaint in 2024  —  Austria's data protection authority on Wednesday ruled that Microsoft illegally tracked students using its education software …

Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate An arsenal of angry European Parliament members (MEPs) is demanding answers from senior commissioners about why EU subsidies are ending up in the pockets of spyware companies.…

The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy concentration of infected devices at U.S. providers is complicating efforts to limit collateral damage from the botnet's attacks, which shattered previous records this week with a brief traffic flood that clocked in at nearly 30 trillion bits of data per second.

The Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) was created to make Linux more observable and secure. It extends kernel functionality without requiring new modules or recompilation, enabling precise monitoring, tracing, and policy enforcement at runtime. For defenders, it promised transparency. For attackers, it opened a new space to hide.

Two AI "girlfriend" apps have blabbed millions of intimate conversations from more than 400,000 users.

Immerse yourself in a Mesoamerican Metroidvania adventure, featuring vivid ligne-claire comic visuals set in the 16th century. Explore the intersection of two worlds in this spellbinding tale based on historical background with rich lore, dynamic combat, and a captivating OST. That is, a comicvania.

I can't find any reviews, but I do know that it got a strong reception from the Steam Next demo they released.

🎮

• Steam
• Nintendo Switch

Comments

US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office.…

Reuters: A new simulation from the European Central Bank shows that the digital euro could trigger a deposit outflow of up to €700B during a run on commercial banks  —  - ECB simulates adverse and baseline scenarios  — Flight to safety would see 13 banks out of cash  — Baseline scenario shows modest impact

WTF happened to onionmail.info?

So disturbing.

It was such a great resource for email. It was a quite unique infrastructure that gave a bit of freedom and privacy unlike any other email provider.

Crime group claims to have already doled out $1K to those in it 'for money and for the love of the game' Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has launched an unusual crowdsourced extortion scheme, offering $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to help pressure their alleged victims into paying ransoms.…

Someone in Texas shot a fiber line. The shooter remains a mystery, but nearly 25,000 people were taken offline by the incident. The outage affected parts of Dallas, Irving, Plano, Arlington, Austin, and San Antonio. […] As random as a bullet taking down the internet might sound, there’s actually precedent to this sort of thing. … Continue reading Texas Loss of Internet Caused by Guns →

New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.

Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …

Central bank says market concentration hasn't been this extreme in 50 years.

Turns out Apple’s ‘Find My’ feature isn’t just for when your phone slips down the side of the couch.