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NEW: Hackers stole more than $2.7 billion in crypto last year, according to multiple blockchain monitoring companies. North Korea alone stole 2 of those billions, thanks to the jackpot of the Bybit hack, which netted them $1.4 billion.
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Hackers stole over $2.7B in crypto in 2025, data shows | TechCrunch
This was another banner year for crypto hacks and heists — 2025 was the third year in a row that a new crypto theft record was set.
NEW: A flaw in the website of Hama Film, a photo booth maker with presence in Australia, UAE and the U.S., exposes pictures and videos of its customers. Security researcher alerted the company last month, no answer. We reached out to the company a few times, no answer.
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Flaw in photo booth maker’s website exposes customers’ pictures | TechCrunch
Hama Film makes photo booths that upload pictures and videos online. But their back-end systems have a simple flaw that allows anyone to download c...
NEW: Staffers at notorious spyware maker Intellexa had live remote access to their customers' surveillance systems. This allowed them to see the personal data of targets hacked with Intellexa's spyware Predator, according to new research based on a leaked training video. Needless to say, this is bad for several reasons.
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Sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa had direct access to government espionage victims, researchers say | TechCrunch
Based on a leaked video, security researchers alleged that Intellexa staffers have remote live access to their customers' surveillance systems...
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NEW: A trivial-to-exploit bug in jury systems used across the United States was exposing jurors' sensitive personal data, such as full names, date of birth, occupation, email addresses, cell phone numbers, and home addresses — and potentially even health data. The bug essentially allowed anyone to brute-force and access jurors' accounts. The system is provided by gov tech gian Tyler Technologies. We alerted them of the bug on Nov. 5, they acknowledged and said they fixed it yesterday. ** **
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Bug in jury systems used by several US states exposed sensitive personal data | TechCrunch
An easy-to-exploit vulnerability in a jury system made by Tyler Technologies exposed the personally identifiable data of jurors, including names, h...
NEW: Delivery giant DoorDash disclosed a data breach impacting an unspecified number of users. Hackers stole names, emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses, but DoorDash said that “no sensitive information was accessed by the unauthorized third party." 🤔
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DoorDash confirms data breach affecting users’ phone numbers and physical addresses | TechCrunch
The delivery giant said “no sensitive information” was accessed, and did not specify the number of customers, delivery workers, and merchants w...
NEW: A group of Senators and Congresspeople are warning Governors that their states are providing ICE “with frictionless, self-service access to the personal data of all of your residents.” The data sharing is managed by a nonprofit called Nlets, which is managed by state police agencies.
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Lawmakers warn Democratic governors that states are sharing drivers' data with ICE | TechCrunch
A group of Democratic lawmakers asked governors in California, Colorado, and other states to block ICE from accessing their residents’ driver’s...
NEW: This is how former L3Harris Trenchant boss Peter Williams was able to steal zero-days worth millions of dollars and sell them to a Russian broker, based on court documents and interviews with his former colleagues.  A former Trenchant employee told me that “no one had any supervision over [Williams] at all. He was kind of allowed to do things the way he wanted to.” “He was, in my opinion, perceived to be beyond reproach,” the former employee, who has knowledge of Trenchant's IT systems, told me.
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How an ex-L3Harris Trenchant boss stole and sold cyber exploits to Russia | TechCrunch
Peter Williams sold eight exploits to a Russian zero-day broker by smuggling them from his employer’s highly secured air-gapped network. A court ...
NEW: Peter Williams, the former head of Western zero-day and spyware maker Trenchant, pleaded guilty to selling eight exploits to a Russian broker that resells to the Russian government. The DOJ said Williams was promised millions of dollars in exchange for "national-security focused software."
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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker | TechCrunch
Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the T...