International

India’s government is considering a proposal that would require smartphone companies to always activate satellite location tracking for better surveillance. Apple, Google, and Samsung oppose this due to privacy issues, according to Reuters. The Modi administration has long been worried that its agencies don’t receive accurate locations when they request …

Portugal has changed its cybercrime law to protect good-faith security research and to make hacking legal under specific, strict conditions. Daniel Cuthbert identified a new rule in Article 8.o-A, called “Acts not punishable due to public interest in cybersecurity,” which exempts some actions from being illegal that were once seen …

The Korean National Police arrested suspected four people for hacking over 120,000 IP cameras and selling the footage to a foreign adult website. Police are acting against the operators of the illegal content despite not revealing the suspects or websites, through international cooperation. “The National Office of Investigation announced that …

India’s Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu informed the Rajya Sabha that some flights reported Positioning System- GPS spoofing in the vincinity of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi while using GPS-based landing procedures. In a written reply to a question on GPS spoofing, Mr Naidu told the House …

A new malware campaign targets users by misusing their trust in popular apps. Cybercriminals are spreading fake installers for Telegram, WinSCP, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Teams to install ValleyRat, a remote access trojan for long-term system takeover. The campaign has been attributed to the China-aligned APT group known as Silver …

The Indian government now requires messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal to work only when linked to an active SIM card. This regulation, issued by the Department of Telecommunications on November 28, aims to combat increasing cyber fraud and secure digital communication. Telecommunication Cybersecurity Amendment Rules, 2025, take …

Yesterday, Cloudflare outage disrupted major platforms like ChatGPT, X, Uber, Canva, Downdetector and some other services, leaving users with 500 Internal Server Errors. Cloudflare traced the issue to an oversized configuration file that affected its network. A fix was implemented by around 9:42 a.m. ET, leading to a gradual recovery, …

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht addressed the widespread outage on social media, explaining the reason behind it on his X handle. “I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The …

On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated the largest cloud DDoS attack at 15.72 Tbps with nearly 3.64 billion packets per second, aimed at one endpoint in Australia. Azure’s global DDoS Protection system quickly identified and mitigated threats, filtering out harmful traffic and ensuring continuous service for …

Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company, announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure on Wednesday, which will involve new data centers in Texas and New York. Microsoft also on Wednesday announced a new data center under construction in Atlanta, Georgia, describing it as connected to another in Wisconsin to form …