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New research reveals that a growing number of organizations are experiencing cyberattacks that leverage artificial intelligence. The 2025 Bitdefender Cybersecurity Assessment found that more than six-in-ten (63%) IT & cybersecurity professionals say their organization has experienced an attack involving AI within the last 12 months.

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If you thought your postings on LinkedIn were safe from the AI-training arms race, think again.

The Microsoft-owned professional networking site has quietly announced that from Monday, 3 November 2025, it will be using profile details, public posts, feed activity data, and more from users in the UK, EU, Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong to train its artificial intelligence models – as well as to support personalised ads across the broader family of Microsoft companies.

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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has levied a fine of £200,000 (US $260,000) against a sole trader who sent almost one million spam text messages to people across the country – many of whom were already struggling with debt.

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Early this month, the Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) confirmed a data breach that exposed customer information from one of its e-commerce databases. While the incident has faded from the headlines, it still serves as a powerful reminder that personal data, even if limited in details, can fuel identity theft and scams long after the breach has been contained.

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Imagine a simple scenario: a kid playing Roblox wants to enhance his gameplay by downloading some files he found online. He installs the files and a countdown starts. A simple message accompanied by an image referencing Adolf Hitler demands payment via gift card, warning that files will be deleted in 1 hour. It looks terrifying – and that’s by design.

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The weaponization of Facebook started long before the US elections in 2016, but only after that incident did the social network’s management actually take the matter seriously, writes the Washington Post, based on an external investigation.

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