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60 canceled flights
Ukrainian drone attacks repeatedly cause massive problems in Russia’s air traffic. However, the dozens of new flight cancellations in Moscow probably have a different reason.
New malware discovered
A new threat has emerged on the cybercrime scene that is specifically targeting ATMs in Europe and could therefore endanger the entire banking industry. The malware, known as “EU ATM Malware”, was recently offered for sale on a hacker forum.
Data records sold for 500,000 US dollars
Data from over half a billion users of the ticket provider Ticketmaster has allegedly been up for sale since Tuesday evening. Ticketmaster also sells tickets for concerts in Germany, which is why German users would probably also be affected.
10 international arrest warrants, 4 arrests
Investigators are talking about the biggest strike against cyber criminals: more than 100 servers have been confiscated and 1300 domains put out of operation in an operation in several countries worldwide.
Guy's, St. Thomas' and King's College Hospital affected
A ransomware attack has hit prominent hospitals in the British capital, according to a report. The consequences are not yet foreseeable.
Competition for 1Password and LastPass
For a long time, third-party providers such as 1Password and LastPass dominated the password manager market. Now Apple wants to enter the market with its own in-house solution.
Launch soon
OpenAI is about to release its latest language model GPT-5, which is expected to come onto the market in August. This was reported by The Verge, citing informed sources from the company.
Through the CRM system
The US subsidiary of Germany’s Allianz SE confirms a major cyber attack in which hackers have stolen the personal data of the “majority” of its customers.
After CEO resignation
After the Kiss cam debacle at a Coldplay concert, the two managers of a software company who were caught have now had to give up their jobs.
E-commerce group from China
Media reports have been circulating for some time that the Chinese group JD.com could take over Mediamarkt’s parent company Ceconomy. Now things are becoming more concrete.
EU Cloud Association
The industry association Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has filed a formal action for annulment with the European Court of Justice against the approval of the VMware takeover by Broadcom.
Billion-euro project stopped
Intel has officially announced the end of its planned chip factory in Magdeburg. The US company is thus burying one of the most ambitious industrial projects in Germany in recent years. Originally around 3,000 new jobs were to be created in Saxony-Anhalt, but the semiconductor giant is pulling the
Network problems
Users of the Starlink satellite internet service reported massive connection problems on Thursday evening shortly before 3 PM EST. At that time, more than 7,000 reports had already been received on the Downdetector outage website. After more than two hours, the network was working again. What was the cause?
Thousands of data records deleted
A twelve-day experiment with AI-based software development ended in disaster: Replit’s Vibe coding agent deleted a production database on his own authority and then tried to cover up the incident. The CEO of the service provider has now apologized.
American tech industry
According to US President Donald Trump, American AI models do not have to comply with copyright laws.