The Dutch government blocked Kyndryl’s €100M bid for Solvinity, citing national security concerns over critical digital infrastructure. Dutch Government told Kyndryl it can’t buy Solvinity. That sentence doesn’t sound dramatic, but what it means is this: a European government just blocked an American IT company from acquiring the firm that runs DigiD, the platform Dutch…
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Apple Blocked $2.2bn in App Store Fraud in the Last Year
Total figure for fraudulent transactions Apple has blocked since 2020 now stands at over $11bn
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Apple blocked over $11 billion in App Store fraud in 6 years
Apple revealed that it blocked over $11 billion in fraudulent App Store transactions over the last six years, more than $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent App Store transactions in 2025 alone. […]
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The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
Booed commencement speakers, blocked data centers, plummeting poll numbers: The fast-growing industry has a faster-growing crisis.
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Sophos Endpoint in action: Blocking a novel supply chain attack
How the unique anti-exploitation capabilities included with Sophos Endpoint blocked a supply chain attack. Categories: Products & Services Tags: Endpoint, Sophos Endpoint, Exploits
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Anthropic cuts OpenClaw access from Claude subscriptions, offers credits to ease transition
Anthropic has blocked paid Claude subscribers from using the widely used open-source AI agent OpenClaw under their existing subscription plans, a move that took effect April 4 and has drawn pushback from subscribers who question both the cost implications and the company’s stated rationale. In an email to subscribers reviewed by InfoWorld, Anthropic said access…
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Italian spyware vendor creates Fake WhatsApp app, targeting 200 users
WhatsApp blocked a fake app by Italian firm SIO/Asigint that targeted 200 users with spyware, urging them to reinstall the official app. WhatsApp has recently uncovered a malicious fake version of its app that targeted roughly 200 users, most of whom are in Italy. The platform confirmed that the unofficial client contained spyware and was…
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Federal judge blocks Perplexity’s AI browser from making Amazon purchases
A federal judge has blocked Perplexity, makers of the Comet AI browser, from accessing user Amazon accounts and making purchases on their behalf. In an March 9 order, Judge Maxine Chesney of the Northern District Court of California said the temporary injunction reflects the likelihood that Amazon “will succeed on the merits” of its claim…
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Boards don’t need cyber metrics — they need risk signals
Security teams live in a world of numbers. Dashboards depict counts of blocked attacks, phishing clicks, vulnerabilities discovered, patches applied, alerts triaged, and incidents closed. Over the past decade, the cybersecurity industry has become adept at measuring activity with increasing precision. Experts say what remains far less consistent is whether those measurements help boards govern…
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Google fears massive attempt to clone Gemini AI through model extraction
Google detected and blocked a campaign involving more than 100,000 prompts that it claimed were designed to copy the proprietary reasoning capabilities of its Gemini AI model, according to a quarterly threat report released by Google Threat Intelligence Group. The prompts looked like a coordinated attempt to perform model extraction or distillation, a machine-learning process…
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Google fears massive attempt to clone Gemini AI through model extraction
Google detected and blocked a campaign involving more than 100,000 prompts that it claimed were designed to copy the proprietary reasoning capabilities of its Gemini AI model, according to a quarterly threat report released by the company’s Threat Intelligence Group. The prompts looked like a coordinated attempt to perform model extraction or distillation, a machine-learning…