Tech News

1. Vulnerability Exploitation & Mitigation:

   • Microsoft is set to enhance Entra ID authentication by blocking unauthorized script injection attacks, starting in late October 2026. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • A flaw in the Forge library can be exploited to bypass signature verifications. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft: Security keys may prompt for PIN after recent updates. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

2. Data Breaches & Leaks:

   • Gainsight reported a data breach impacting more customers than initially believed after a Salesforce security alert. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • A data breach at the French Football Federation (FFF) has exposed players' data via a compromised administrative account. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com 👉 cybernews.com
   • Data broker Infobel was fined by the Belgian DPA for selling data without consent. 👉 cybernews.com
   • Comcast will pay a $1.5 million fine for a vendor breach affecting 270,000 customers. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • OpenAI disclosed an API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Asahi CEO apologizes after Russia‑linked hackers expose 2M in Japan. 👉 cybernews.com

3. Malware & Botnet Activity:

   • A Python-based WhatsApp worm is spreading the Eternidade stealer across Brazilian devices. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • The Bloody Wolf threat actor expands Java-based NetSupport RAT attacks in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • A new Mirai-based botnet malware, ShadowV2, exploited the AWS outage. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • North Korean hackers are deploying 197 npm packages to spread an updated OtterCookie malware. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • GreyNoise Labs has launched a free scanner to check if you're part of a botnet. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

4. Ransomware Incidents:

   • MS Teams guest access can remove Defender protection when users join external tenants. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • Money Mart breach: Everest ransomware claims 80K files customer, financial data. 👉 cybernews.com
   • Qilin Ransomware Turns South Korean MSP Breach Into 28-Victim 'Korean Leaks' Data Heist. 👉 thehackernews.com

5. Cloud Security:

   • Microsoft Azure training bundle helps you study for certifications. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

6. AI & Cybersecurity:

   • Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • A Chinese startup, DeepSeek, claims its chip can outperform Nvidia’s AI trainers. 👉 cybernews.com

7. Cloud Computing:

   • The Cloudflare outage (1 day ago) may be a security roadmap for organizations. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com

8. Ethical Hacking:

   • Save on this ethical hacking bundle: $33 through December 7th. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

9. Legal & Law Enforcement:

   • A man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison (1 day ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service (1 day ago). 👉 krebsonsecurity.com
   • Mike G Law Expands Cyber Crime Defense Services as Digital Investigations Intensify. 👉 cybernews.com
   • France slaps €750,000 fine on Vanity Fair magazine for placing cookies without consent. 👉 cybernews.com

10. Mobile Security:

    • Mobile phones face unprecedented rise in sophisticated cyber threats, ANSSI warns. 👉 cybernews.com

11. Google:

    • Google withdraws its 2024 EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Azure licensing, after the EU launched a probe into Azure and AWS under the DMA (1 day ago). 👉 wsj.com^$

12. European Union:

    • France slaps €750,000 fine on Vanity Fair magazine for placing cookies without consent. 👉 cybernews.com
    • French President Emmanuel Macron criticizes the EU for being too slow to act on probes into Big Tech companies, attributing the delay to US pressure against DSA (1 day ago). 👉 politico.eu

13. India:

    • Indian e-commerce platform Meesho is set to launch an India IPO, seeking to raise $606M, targeting a post-issue valuation of ~$5.60B (1 day ago). 👉 techcrunch.com

14. Humanoid Robotics:

    • China's top economic planning agency warns about the risk of a bubble forming in the booming humanoid robotics industry; 150+ manufacturers operate in China (1 day ago). 👉 bloomberg.com^$

15. DeepSeekMath-V2 AI:

    • DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024 (1 day ago). 👉 the-decoder.com

16. Apple & Intel Partnership Rumors:

    • Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A process for the chip production (1 day ago). 👉 x.com

17. Streaming Services & Quotas:

    • Australia passes a law requiring global streamers with 1M+ Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local outlay or 7.5% of revenue on Australian originals (2 days ago). 👉 deadline.com

18. Prime Intellect INTELLECT-3:

    • Prime Intellect debuts INTELLECT-3, an RL-trained 106B parameter open source MOE model it claims outperforms larger models across math, code, science, reasoning (1 day ago). 👉 primeintellect.ai

19. CME Group Outage:

    • Global futures markets were disrupted for several hours on Friday after CME Group suffered an outage due to a cooling failure at a CyrusOne data center (1 day ago). 👉 reuters.com

20. OpenAI Debt:

    • OpenAI's data center partners are set to rack up nearly $100B in debt; sources say banks may lend another $38B to Oracle and Vantage to build more OpenAI sites (1 day ago). 👉 t.co

21. CoinShares Crypto ETFs:

    • SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its XRP, Solana staking, and Litecoin ETFs to focus on higher-margin opportunities ahead of a US listing (1 day ago). 👉 reuters.com

22. MediaTek Stock Surge:

    • MediaTek's stock posted its best week since 2002, up 22%, amid enthusiasm over Google's Gemini 3 and chip deals; MediaTek was reported as Google's TPU partner (1 day ago). 👉 bloomberg.com^$

23. Stanford Tool for Reducing Partisan Animosity:

    • Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce “partisan animosity” (1 day ago). 👉 news.stanford.edu

24. Quest Global Stake:

    • Sources: Temasek is in talks to buy a ~5% stake in Quest Global, in a deal that values the engineering services company at $4.6B in the lead-up to its India IPO (1 day ago). 👉 bloomberg.com^$

25. Motorola Turnaround:

    • How Motorola, which spun out its struggling smartphone business in 2011, successfully refocused on critical communication equipment, giving it a $60B market cap (2 days ago). 👉 bloomberg.com^$

26. Epic Games and AI Game Tagging:

    • Tim Sweeney says it “makes no sense” for stores like Steam to label games that are made using AI, since AI “will be involved in nearly all future production” (2 days ago). 👉 gamesindustry.biz

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