Alabama man pleads guilty to hacking, extorting hundreds of women
2026-03-04T20:23:08Z•c3ce34e4ade6e1720acd9778bc1a021a3806719696cb955dfb361354651377a9
CVE-2025-0282account-takeoverair-gapped-breachapt37availability-outagebatch-securitychrome-extension-malwareclawjackedcredential-theftcrypto-theftdeepfakeeuropol-arrestsextortionfake-id-siteidentity-fraudinjection-attacksiranian-threatsivantimicrosoft-license-fraudmnemonic-exposurenation-state-activityopenclawresurgethird-party-patchingvulnerabilitywindows-11
What happened
Collection of security news: a 22-year-old pleaded guilty to hijacking and extorting hundreds of (including minor) social accounts; a Florida woman sentenced for trafficking stolen Microsoft COA labels; the UK NCSC warns of elevated Iranian cyberattack risk; deepfakes and injection attacks are undermining identity verification; Anthropic’s Claude suffered a global outage; researchers disclosed a high-severity “ClawJacked” flaw in OpenClaw that lets malicious websites bruteforce and hijack local agents; Samsung settled with Texas over unlawful smart-TV data collection; the QuickLens Chrome add‑
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