Author: Modernizing Tech
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PayPal Reports Extended Customer Data Exposure
According to customer notifications reviewed by BleepingComputer, PayPal disclosed a data exposure incident that led to the prolonged exposure of sensitive customer information for several months. The software misconfiguration affected the working capital loan application used by small businesses. A code change implemented in mid-2025 unintentionally made certain customer information accessible to unauthorized individuals. The
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Microsoft Project Silica Moves Glass Data Storage Closer to Reality
Project Silica, Microsoft’s research initiative, has announced a major advancement bringing ultra-long-term digital storage in glass closer to practical use. The breakthrough, published in the journal Nature, shows that data can now be stored in ordinary borosilicate glass rather than rare and expensive fused silica. Project Silica addresses long-term data preservation, a growing challenge as
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New Android Malware Uses Gemini AI to Stay Active and Enable Remote Control
Security researchers at ESET have identified a new Android malware family that uses Google Gemini as part of its execution flow. ESET describes it as the first known Android threat to abuse a generative AI model in this way. The malware, PromptSpy, is designed to give attackers remote access to an infected phone while resisting
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Dell Issues Critical Security Update After Active Exploitation of RecoverPoint Vulnerability
Dell has released an urgent security update for RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines after confirming active exploitation of a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain root-level access to affected systems. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-22769, involves hardcoded credentials embedded in RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines versions prior to 6.0.3.1 HF1. An unauthenticated remote attacker with
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Google Adds AI Music Generation to Gemini With Lyria 3
Google has introduced AI-generated music to its Gemini app, expanding the platform’s creative capabilities beyond text, images, and video. The new feature is powered by Lyria 3, a generative music model developed by Google DeepMind, and is currently rolling out in beta. It allows users to generate short music tracks using text prompts or visual
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Vulnerabilities Found in Popular Software Development Extensions
Security researchers have identified multiple vulnerabilities in widely used integrated development environment (IDE) extensions, add on tools used in software development editors such as Visual Studio Code, exposing an attack surface in modern software development workflows. The findings, published by researchers at OX Security, are based on an examination of several popular extensions used in
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Study Finds Security Design Flaws in Cloud Password Managers
Academic researchers have disclosed a series of security weaknesses in several widely used cloud-based password managers that could allow attackers to view, alter, or fully compromise stored credentials, even in environments advertised as zero-knowledge. The findings come from a study conducted by teams at ETH Zurich and the Switzerland’s University of Lugano (USI), which examined
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Research Shows Infostealers Expanding to AI Agent Environments
A recent cybersecurity investigation by Hudson Rock, a firm specializing in cybercrime intelligence and infostealer threat monitoring, has uncovered a real-world infostealer infection that successfully exfiltrated configuration files from an OpenClaw AI agent environment, signaling a notable shift in how malware targets sensitive data. Unlike traditional infostealer activity focused on browser credentials, this incident involved
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