Author: HackWatchit

Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) can convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and it is capable of scanning both printed and handwritten text. Currently, the app has been downloaded 50 million times on the Google Play Store (with over 952,000 reviews with an average of 4.9/5 rating) and received nearly 136,000 ratings on Apple’s App Store. According to Microsoft’s timeline, the retirement process will begin in mid-September, with new Apple App Store and Google Play Store installs to be…

Google confirms Salesforce CRM breach, faces extortion threat Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2025 Google disclosed a Salesforce Customer Relationship Management (CRM) breach exposing data of some prospective Google Ads customers. Google confirmed a breach in a Salesforce CRM instance affecting the data of prospective Google Ads customers. The website Databreaches.net reported that the attackers have sent an extortion demand to the Tech giant. Google Threat Intelligence Group confirmed that one of its Salesforce database systems, used to store contact information and related notes for small and medium-sized businesses, was breached by the threat actor ShinyHunters (aka UNC6040).  “In June, one of…

Considering the widespread use of contactless payment systems, it’s no surprise that portable point-of-sale thefts are making a comeback. This type of robbery is enjoying a new wave of popularity, and is much harder to spot given how quickly those transactions take place. But how much risk is there, really? And how can you protect yourself from POS scams?The Case of SorrentoA recent example of POS theft happened recently in Italy, when topic exploded again a few days ago when the news agency Ansa reported an arrest made in Sorrento after someone attempted to steal €100 from a cash register…

A cyberattack on Bouygues Telecom exposed data for 6.4 million customers. Find out what information was compromised and what you need to do to protect yourself from scams, as the company warns customers to be on high alert. French telecommunications giant Bouygues Telecom has confirmed a cyberattack that resulted in the personal information of 6.4 million customers being exposed. The company, which serves nearly 27 million mobile users across France, discovered the security breach on August 4th. What Was Compromised? An investigation by the company revealed that hackers gained access to a variety of customer details. This includes contact information,…

Telecommunications service providers (TSP) are foundational to the functioning of our modern technical society, serving as the conduit through which many critical infrastructure sectors maintain communication, coordination, and control. While industrial control systems (ICS) typically operate within isolated operational networks/enclaves, some critical infrastructure sectors depend on TSPs for remote monitoring, data transmission, or secure connectivity across dispersed sites. For example, this dependency is seen in sectors such as communications, energy, water and wastewater, transportation, emergency services, and critical manufacturing. The intersection of TSP and critical infrastructure presents an attractive target for malicious actors, as weaknesses in telecommunications infrastructure can provide…

Rising adoption of 5G, edge computing, and IoT technologies across operational technology (OT) environments is driving organizations to rethink how they protect interconnected machines and critical processes, as cyber-physical security becomes increasingly intertwined. Such integration creates a two-pronged challenge, which includes how to keep operational safety in real-time and contend with policy timelines that are measured in years to secure legacy systems never designed with today’s threat landscape. A single software flaw, such as the June 2024 CrowdStrike update and the SolarWinds cybersecurity breach, demonstrated how such incidents can create a domino-like effect through often-interconnected systems, with effects rippling to…

USDe has set a new industry record by hitting $10 billion in total value locked (TVL) in just 500 days, making it the fastest stablecoin in history to reach that milestone.USDe reaches $10B milestoneThe protocol behind USDe, Ethena Labs, posted:“everyone wants to know what we’d say if we didn’t reach $10b supplyi guess we’ll never know”The GENIUS behind the rise of USDeUSDe’s rapid climb has coincided with the passing of the GENIUS Act, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, which represents the first comprehensive federal framework for stablecoins in the United States.Enacted on July 18, 2025,…

my previous article, I talked about how mechanistic interpretability reimagines attention in a transformers to be additive without any concatenation. Here, I will dive deeper into this perspective and show how it resonates with ideas from LSTMs, and how this reinterpretation opens new doors for understanding. To ground ourselves: the attention mechanism in transformers relies on a series of matrix multiplications involving the Query (Q), Key (K), Value (V), and an output projection matrix (O). Traditionally, each head computes attention independently, the results are concatenated, and then projected via O. But from a mechanistic perspective, it is better seen that…

AI is transforming the way work gets done across industries. But while it improves business efficiencies, it also arms cybercriminals with highly effective tools. These bad actors use AI to power sophisticated social engineering tactics, including malware, ransomware, and convincing phishing campaigns, to trick targets into giving up personal information, compromising themselves and their organizations. The rise of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI) makes it extremely difficult to spot these malicious schemes when they occur. They can create communications that, at times, can be nearly indistinguishable from those written by humans. To make matters worse, these advanced…