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Russia proposes exchange trading of Bitcoin, Ether and Tether’s USDT
Russia’s central bank proposed allowing Bitcoin, Ether and USDT to trade on regulated exchanges, following a law signed by President Vladimir Putin last week.
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A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices
A malicious SIM card can order the device it sits in to run commands of the attacker's choosing. On the cellular modules built into electric-vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, that is enough to take the whole device over. Researchers at the University of Birmingham and t
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Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo
Mozilla has scrapped the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy of it was committed by mistake to one of the company's own private code repositories. That key is how a user, or a Linux distribution packaging the browser, confirms a downloaded F
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Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers
Security researchers invented a cryptocurrency startup, advertised developer jobs, and hired three people they believe were North Korean operatives. Every virtual machine the company issued was recording. The onboarding paperwork is the part hiring teams can use. The first hire claimed to live in Pa
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Extension Banned for Stealing AI Chats Returns to Chrome Store, Resumes Malicious Activities
The extension amassed over 300,000 installs and a 4.6 rating before Google removed it for stealing data. The post Extension Banned for Stealing AI Chats Returns to Chrome Store, Resumes Malicious Activities appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11
Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine. The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical hardw
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Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets
A malicious tool server connected to an AI coding assistant can quietly walk off with SSH keys, environment secrets, source code, and customer data without ever sending one obviously harmful instruction. The trick can work even after a blunt version of the same theft is refused: split the request in
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Bitdeer crashes 19% in a day after dilutive offering, bad earnings
Bitdeer Technologies shed a fifth of its market value on Monday, closing at a market capitalization of $2.11B, down 19% from Friday’s $2.65B. The post Bitdeer crashes 19% in a day after dilutive offering, bad earnings appeared first on Protos .