Tech News

1. Data Breaches & Leaks:

   • Coupang, a South Korean e-commerce giant, confirms a massive data breach exposing 33.7 million accounts. 👉 cybernews.com
   • Japanese beer giant Asahi says a data breach hit 1.5 million people. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (2 days ago)
   • Comcast will pay a $1.5 million fine for a vendor breach affecting 270K customers. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (4 days ago)
   • The French Football Federation (FFF) disclosed a data breach after attackers used a compromised account to gain access to administrative management software used by football clubs. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (2 days ago)
   • More than 17,000 secrets were exposed in public GitLab repositories. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (2 days ago)

2. Vulnerabilities & Exploits:

   • CISA has added actively exploited XSS Bug CVE-2021-26829 in OpenPLC ScadaBR to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • Microsoft warns that Windows 11 updates may hide the password login option. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (2 days ago)
   • Microsoft to block unauthorized scripts in Entra ID logins with a 2026 CSP update. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • A popular Forge library gets a fix for signature verification bypass flaw. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (4 days ago)
   • Firewalls are under active attack, triggering a CISA warning for Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS. 👉 threatpost.com (9 days ago)

3. Malware & Botnets:

   • A new Mirai-based botnet malware named 'ShadowV2' has been observed targeting IoT devices from D-Link, TP-Link, and other vendors with exploits for known vulnerabilities. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (4 days ago)
   • The Bloody Wolf threat actor has been targeting Kyrgyzstan since at least June 2025 with the goal of delivering NetSupport RAT. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • Malicious LLMs are empowering inexperienced hackers with advanced tools. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (3 days ago)
   • Cybercriminals are selling access to Chinese surveillance cameras. 👉 threatpost.com (6 days ago)
   • A new browser extension called Slop Evader promises to use Google's search API "to only return content published before Nov 30th, 2022". 👉 tegabrain.com
   • DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024. 👉 the-decoder.com

4. Artificial Intelligence:

   • Psychology Today reports, in a study conducted in Milan, Italy, the sight of a person dressed as Batman led to a nearly doubled rate of people giving up their seat to a pregnant woman. 👉 psychologytoday.com
   • BleepingComputer reports, OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Reuters reports, Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party companies in favor of its own. 👉 finance.yahoo.com
   • A study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found artificial intelligence can do the work currently performed by nearly 12% of America's workforce. 👉 msn.com

5. Cyber Crime:

   • A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an "evil twin" WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers at various airports across Australia. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (2 days ago)
   • Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com
   • Fake travel reservations are exacting more pain from the travel weary. 👉 threatpost.com (9 days ago)
   • U.S. Black Friday sales hit a record of US$ 11.8 billion aided by AI shopping tools. 👉 reuters.com

6. Business & Finance:

   • Sources say Databricks is raising $5B at a $134B valuation, expects sales to grow 55% in 2026 to $4.1B, and is operating at roughly breakeven. 👉 theinformation.com
   • Bloomberg reports, three years after its release, a look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

7. Global Tech Regulations:

   • India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding. 👉 medianama.com (9 days ago)
   • CNN reports, 27 million people live in Australia. From December 10, sites that meet the Australian government's definition of an "age-restricted social media platform" will need to show that they're doing enough to eject or block children under 16. 👉 cnn.com
   • Taiwan raises its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 7.37%, up from 4.45% forecasted in August, the fastest in 15 years, as AI demand boosts its electronics exports. 👉 ft.com^$

8. Transportation Security:

   • Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data. 👉 theguardian.com (3 days ago)

9. Business & Technology:

   • MasterCard noted that even Walmart now allows its customers to make purchases through ChatGPT. 👉 mastercard.com
   • Wall Street Journal reports, In his mid-20s, Lu Heng "got an idea that has made him a lot richer". 👉 msn.com
   • Italy defense company Leonardo unveils plans for an AI-powered shield for cities and critical infrastructure, adding to Europe's push to ramp up sovereign defense capabilities amid rising geopolitical tensions. 👉 cnbc.com (3 days ago)

10. Operating Systems & Open Source:

    • ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols writes, "By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market". 👉 zdnet.com
    • The Free Software Foundation describes how "After months of preparation and excitement, we 👉 fsf.org for a global online hackathon". 👉 fsf.org (1 week ago)

11. Web Security:

    • Cybercriminals are selling access to Chinese surveillance cameras. 👉 threatpost.com (6 days ago)
    • "The internet is being increasingly polluted by AI generated text, images and video," argues the site for a new browser extension called Slop Evader. 👉 tegabrain.com

12. AI Safety:

    • Researchers have unveiled PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion. 👉 spectrum.ieee.org

13. Security Tools:

    • GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (3 days ago)

14. eCommerce Security:

    • Mastercard noted that even Walmart now allows its customers to make purchases through ChatGPT. 👉 mastercard.com
    • A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated S&P 500 even more top heavy. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

15. Google TPUv7 Ironwood:

    • An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance. 👉 newsletter.semianalysis.com

16. Airbus Recall:

    • Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data. 👉 theguardian.com (3 days ago)

17. TP-Link Ban:

    • The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an estimated 50% market share among home users and small businesses. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com

18. Advertising

    • Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (2 days ago)

19. Telecommunications Cybersecurity:

    • India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding to ensure each account remains tied to an active SIM. 👉 medianama.com (9 days ago)

20. Software

    • Microsoft warned users that Windows 11 updates released since August may cause the password sign-in option to disappear from the lock screen options, even though the button remains functional. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (2 days ago)
    • French Football Federation discloses data breach after cyberattack. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com (2 days ago)

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