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Ericsson blames vendor vishing slip-up for breach exposing thousands of records

10 March 2026 at 13:16

Crooks used simple phone scam to compromise vendor account, spilling personal and financial data belonging to more than 15,000 people

A voice-phishing scam targeting one of Ericsson's service providers has exposed the personal data of more than 15,000 individuals after attackers sweet-talked an employee into handing over access.…

EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen

9 March 2026 at 17:02

An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses

ExclusiveΒ  ELECQ, maker of smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, is warning customers that their personal details may have been stolen in a ransomware attack that encrypted and copied user data from its cloud systems.…

Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts

9 March 2026 at 13:40

Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accounts

Russian-linked hackers are trying to break into the Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government officials, journalists, and military personnel globally – not by cracking encryption, but by simply tricking people into handing over the keys.…

Microsoft spots ClickFix campaign getting users to self-pwn on Windows Terminal

6 March 2026 at 14:37

Crooks tweak familiar copy-paste ruse so that victims run malicious commands themselves

A new twist on the long-running ClickFix scam is now tricking Windows users into launching Windows Terminal and pasting malware into it themselves – handing the credential-stealing Lumma infostealer the keys to their browser vault.…

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

5 March 2026 at 13:18

Contractors tasked with improving AI reportedly had access to intimate footage captured through wearables

Britain's privacy watchdog is asking questions about Meta's AI-powered smart glasses after reports that human contractors reviewing recordings from the devices were exposed to extremely private moments captured by unsuspecting users.…

Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach

5 February 2026 at 20:54

Contact details were accessed in an intrusion that went undetected for months, the blogging outfit says

Newsletter platform Substack has admitted that an intruder swiped user contact details months before the company noticed, forcing it to warn writers and readers that their email addresses and other account metadata were accessed without permission.…

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