Age checks are becoming law worldwide. The question is no longer whether platforms verify age, but what happens to the faces they collect — and whether they need to collect them at all. By Ricardo Amper, Founder & CEO, Incode Technologies More than 30 age assurance laws are now in force worldwide. The UK is […]
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Microsoft has observed a surge in attacks using the ACR Stealer malware to steal browser-stored passwords, authentication tokens, and sensitive documents from its enterprise customers. Between late April and mid-June, the threat actor used the ClickFix social-engineering method, WebDAV servers, and the MSHTA (Microsoft HTML Application Host) utility to deliver the info-stealing payload. ACR Stealer
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Public exploits have been released for the critical “wp2shell” remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting WordPress Core, making it imperative that administrators patch their sites immediately. The wp2shell attack consists of two flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137, that can be chained together to achieve pre-authentication remote code execution against WordPress installs running versions 6.9.x and
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7-Zip version 26.02 was released on June 25 to fix a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute malicious code by convincing users to open specially crafted compressed files. The vulnerability, disclosed by Lunbun researcher Landon Peng, exists in 7-Zip’s processing of XZ-compressed data. According to an advisory from the Zero Day
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An advanced threat actor is abusing the update mechanism for the ViPNet private networking product suite to target Russian organizations, including government agencies. Dubbed HelloNet, the campaign has been active since at least May, deploying a malicious payload that acts as a proxy and loader for additional malware. According to Kaspersky researchers, HelloNet has impacted
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Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI is full of astonishing accusations and details, with Apple alleging it uncovered a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets. Apple's complaint mostly points the finger at a few ex-Apple employees that now work at OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. OpenAI has faced quite a number of lawsuits lately on how
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“Here's what I found on the web” can finally be put to rest. I put both the old and the new version of Apple's Siri assistant through a few real-world questions on my Apple Watch(es) to see how they stack up. Spoiler: I'm keeping the new one, thank you very much. With the WatchOS 27
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According to data shared by Newzoo (via VGC), players spent approximately $180m on digital pre-orders across the US and European markets during the last week of June. Using that data, and mapping it onto player distribution of GTA 5, Newzoo estimates that the game made $260m in its first week – that’ll be $180m from
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According to 404 Media, a hacker has breached the company database of Suno, an online AI music generation tool. The hack is said to reveal multiple references to the training data it scraped from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and others. Suno has previously admitted that its tool was trained on “essentially all music files of
