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What LLMs Know About Their Users

Schneier on Security

a highly dramatic pelican or a Russian-accented walrus), yet they maintain engagement in technical and explanatory discussions. […] User frequently cross-validates information, particularly in research-heavy topics like emissions estimates, pricing comparisons, and political events. User’s account is 237 weeks old.

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Operation Secure: INTERPOL dismantles 20,000+ malicious IPs in major cybercrime crackdown

Security Affairs

Between January and April 2025, INTERPOL led Operation Secure, a global effort that took down over 20,000 malicious IPs and domains linked to information-stealing malware. The operation led to the seizure of 41 servers, over 100 GB of data collected, and 32 arrests, dismantling 79% of the identified threats.

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Election season raises fears for nearly a third of people who worry their vote could be leaked

Malwarebytes

Broadly, Malwarebytes found that: 74% of people “consider US election season a risky time for personal information.” Distrust in political ads is broad—62% said they “disagree” or “strongly disagree” that the information they receive in US election-related ads is trustworthy. The reasons could be obvious.

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Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook 

Malwarebytes

This data was automatically transferred when loading the webpage, before users could even accept or decline the use of their data. The data collection resulted in the reporterwho said they never once agreed to the use of their data for marketing purposes being inundated with ads for gambling websites.

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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I'd seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for "7,000", which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2024

SecureList

CloudSorcerer is a sophisticated cyber-espionage tool used for stealth monitoring, data collection and exfiltration via Microsoft, Yandex and Dropbox cloud infrastructures. Twelve also exfiltrates sensitive information from targeted systems and posts it on the group’s Telegram channel.

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Prominent US law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a data breach

Security Affairs

The law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 3.5 The law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a 2023 data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 3.5 The law firm pointed out that it has no evidence the exposed data has been misused.