Data Security

Both Google and Apple have already been sought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to provide documents submitted by DeepSeek to be published on their respective app stores, as well as their analyses of the AI app.

Spanish police identified two of the suspects as the service’s top global distributors, having earned over $14 million from subscription sales.

The advisory group's actions have resulted in its scrutiny over security clearances, cybersecurity practices, and the legality of its activities.

Newly appointed U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been urged by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., to oppose the UK's reported order for Apple to develop a backdoor that would enable government access to encrypted iCloud data, which they argued to be detrimental to U.S. government and citizen data security.

Infiltration of Zacks' active directory as domain admin enabled the theft of source code belonging to the company's primary website and 16 others, according to the threat actor, who has been peddling the exfiltrated account information, including full names, usernames, physical and email addresses, and phone numbers, for a small amount of cryptocurrency.

Such a database not only contained Wi-Fi network names and credentials, device IDs, IP addresses, and email addresses but also other sensitive logging, monitoring, and error records for IoT devices around the world, according to an investigation by cybersecurity researcher Jeremy Fowler published on vpnMentor.

Despite confirming that its China-based subsidiary Unimicron Technology (Shenzhen) Corp., had been disrupted by a ransomware intrusion on Jan. 30, Unimicron did not disclose being subjected to a data breach as it noted an ongoing investigation into the incident.