InfoSec News Nuggets 9/24/2025

Is Big Tech Doing Enough to Fight Scams? The EU Isn't So Sure  As online scammers continue to harass consumers, the European Union is investigating whether major companies, including Apple, Google, and Microsoft, are doing enough to stop the threat. The European Commission today announced it had sent letters to the "Apple App store, Booking.com, Bing, Google Play, and Google Search on how these platforms and search engines identify and manage risks related to financial scams." The goal…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 09/02/2022

Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M users According to the company, the attackers stole a 2021 database from its infrastructure and also shared a samples online to demonstrate the authenticity of the claims. Russian news outlet Medusa verified that the leaked data are valid. “As follows from the leak, 24.6 million Start users registered from Russia, 2.3 million from Kazakhstan, 2.1 million from China, and 1.7 million from Ukraine.” reads the post published by Medusa…
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