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Facebook, Instagram and threads are experiencing technical issues, causing temporary disruptions worldwide. Many users are having trouble messaging, and Meta has not yet commented on the cause of the outage. Around 11:30 pm on Wednesday, many users experienced login issues with the web version of WhatsApp, receiving a ‘service not …

A federal court in Hammond, Indiana, has unsealed an indictment against Guan Tianfeng, a Chinese citizen, for allegedly hacking firewall devices globally in 2020. Guan and his co-conspirators, employed by Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co. Ltd., targeted a previously unknown vulnerability (an “0-day” vulnerability) in firewalls produced by U.K.-based Sophos …

Thousands of AWS customers had terabytes of sensitive data, including personal details, AWS credentials, and proprietary code, compromised in a cyber attack linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group. They gained access to sensitive information through poorly set up systems, resulting in over 2 TB of compromised data. Cybersecurity researchers Noam …