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Colt changes tune, admits data theft as Warlock gang begins auction

TheRegister - Thu, 2025-08-21 12:01
Worried about your data? Not to worry, we'll check the dark web for you! Yes really

A week after its services were disrupted by a cyberattack, UK telco Colt Technology Services has gone back on its initial statement to confirm that data has indeed been stolen.…

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Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension

TheRegister - Thu, 2025-08-21 11:28
Researcher claims extension didn't start out by exfiltrating info... while dev says its actions are 'compliant'

Security boffins at Koi Security have warned of a shift in behavior of a popular Chrome VPN extension, FreeVPN.One, which recently appears to have begun snaffling screenshots of users' page activity and transmitting them to a remote server without their knowledge – and Google has yet to take it down.…

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AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

TheRegister - Thu, 2025-08-21 10:33
One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute

Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute.…

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