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M&S confirms data leak during cyberattack

2 days ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Popular UK retail chain Marks & Spencer has confirmed that hackers stole customer data during its recent cyberattack. The company filed an update with the London Stock Exchange confirming this. M&S’ LSE filing states that “due to the sophisticated nature of the incident, some of their personal customer data has been taken.” This data doesn’t include what details were stolen, but it does affirm that no payment data or account passwords were compromised.
UPI outage disrupts Indian payment systems

2 days ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Photo: Arnav Pratap Singh / Shutterstock.comIndia’s real-time payment system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) suffered a major outage on May 12, affecting digital payments across the country. The outage affected apps like Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm during peak business hours. The reason behind the outage is yet to come to light. PhonePe, a phone wallet app accounting for nearly half of UPI transactions in India at 47.25 percent, had rerouted all of its traffic through a new datacenter.
Ascension health hack affects over 437,000 patients

2 days ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Non-profit healthcare system Ascension Health has notified the US Department of Health and Human Services that it was affected by a data breach affecting more than 437,000 patients. The hackers targeted a vulnerability in a third-party program that one of Ascension’s business partners used. The intrusion occurred on December 5, 2024, when Ascension discovered that it may have “inadvertently disclosed information” to a former business partner.
Asus patches RCE flaw in DriverHub

2 days ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Asus has released software updates to patch two security vulnerabilities affecting its DriverHub tool. If exploited, the bugs allowed an attacker to abuse DriverHub to run arbitrary code on a target’s system remotely. The identified vulnerabilities include CVE-2025-3462 and CVE-2025-3463 with CVSS scores of 8.4 and 9.4, respectively. Both bugs allow unauthorised sources to interact with the software’s features via maliciously crafted HTTP requests.
UIDAI runs facial identity scan test on NEET UG candidates

1 week ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has successfully conducted a facial authentication test during the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET UG) 2025 in New Delhi. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) and National Testing Agency (NTA) collaborated on the pilot as well.
LockBit ransomware gang website compromised

1 week ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Illustration: JMiks | ShutterstockLockBit, one of the most notorious ransomware gangs, has been compromised by an unknown threat actor. Its dark website has been defaced with a message and a download link to a leaked SQL database containing information on the gang’s operations.
Masimo confirms cyberattack affecting operations

1 week ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Medical device manufacturer Masimo has warned customers about a cyberattack that has affected its operations and caused delays in customer orders. The incident affected its networks but only impacted on-premise systems, leaving the company’s cloud infrastructure unharmed. Masimo disclosed the cyberattack in a K-8 filing submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), claiming that the incident happened on April 27, 2025.
NSO Group ordered to pay $167 million to Meta

1 week ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Meta has won its 2019 lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group. The latter allegedly exploited a zero-day vulnerability to deliver spyware to at least 1,400 WhatsApp users. A jury has ordered NSO Group to pay Meta more than $167 million for the hacking, in addition to over $440,000 in compensatory damages. Collecting the awarded damages isn’t easy for Meta, though.
Scammers are using mystery boxes to steal your credit card

1 week ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Security researchers have discovered subscription scam campaigns that use mystery box scams to trick unsuspecting victims into paying for monthly subscriptions and giving their credit cards away in the process. The scammers are mostly using Facebook to target victims. Bitdefender researchers discovered the campaign, which involves more than 200 unique websites.
Claude AI exploited for fake political identities

1 week ago | candid.technology | Yadullah Abidi

Photo: PatrickAssale / Shutterstock.comUnknown threat actors have abused Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot to launch an “influence-as-a-service” offering that interacts with legitimate accounts on Facebook and X. The campaign is assumed to be financially motivated and has created more than 100 unique personas engaging with thousands of legitimate accounts. Once the attackers had their infrastructure ready, they used these accounts to promote clients’ political perspectives.