Author: HackWatchit
What happens when a decentralized trading platform removes its biggest bottlenecks? That is the question Gains Network is attempting to answer with the rollout of gTrade v10, a major infrastructure upgrade intended to scale the protocol to meet the growing needs of DeFi traders and integrators. The update brings notable changes to how fees, leverage, and execution are handled, without compromising on-chain transparency. Funding Fees Replace Borrowing: A Shift in Incentive Design In v10, gTrade replaces the traditional borrowing fee model with funding fees, a mechanism commonly used on centralized futures exchanges to balance long and short positions. In the…
Google has confirmed that a recently disclosed data breach of one of its Salesforce CRM instances involved the information of potential Google Ads customers. “We’re writing to let you know about an event that affected a limited set of data in one of Google’s corporate Salesforce instances used to communicate with prospective Ads customers,” reads a data breach notification shared with BleepingComputer. “Our records indicate basic business contact information and related notes were impacted by this event.” Google says the exposed information includes business names, phone numbers, and “related notes” for a Google sales agent to contact them again. The company…
is a commonly used metric for operationalizing tasks such as semantic search and document comparison in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Introductory NLP courses often provide only a high-level justification for using cosine similarity in such tasks (as opposed to, say, Euclidean distance) without explaining the underlying mathematics, leaving many data scientists with a rather vague understanding of the subject matter. To address this gap, the following article lays out the mathematical intuition behind the cosine similarity metric and shows how this can help us interpret results in practice with hands-on examples in Python. Note: All figures and…
As organizations increasingly rely on application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate communication and data exchange between software systems, these “gates” become primary targets for attackers. Businesses that fail to put API security at or near the top of their priority list risk suffering costly data breaches, service interruptions, reputational damage, and more. Yet, despite the importance of API security, many organizations neglect to allocate sufficient resources for performing regular, thorough API reviews. As a result, these organizations put their very futures in jeopardy. For example, Traceable’s State of API Security report, released earlier this year, found that 99 percent of organizations…
A Nigerian man has been extradited from France to face hacking, identity theft, and fraud charges in the US. He and his co-conspirators allegedly used spearphishing to steal customer data, filing fraudulent tax returns and disaster relief claims worth millions of dollars. In a much-awaited legal move, Nigerian man Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu, a/k/a “Chukwuemeka Victor Eletuo” and “So Kwan Leung,” was recently extradited from France to the United States to face charges related to hacking, fraud, and identity theft. The extradition, announced by the FBI and the Department of Justice, marks the culmination of extensive teamwork between US and French…
In response to recent cyberattacks, the federal judiciary said its been in the process of implementing new safeguards to address the judiciary’s ongoing exposure to “constant and sophisticated” cyber threats.The incident highlights longstanding warnings that the judiciary’s systems are outdated and vulnerable. A top federal judge told Congress in June that CM/ECF and PACER face “unrelenting security threats” and need urgent replacement.Instagram’s latest feature—a searchable map showing user-posted content tagged to specific locations—has sparked a wave of privacy concerns, CNBC reports. Rolled out this week, the feature lets users explore photos and videos by browsing a visual map interface.But users…
Phishing attacks exploit WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 to install RomCom Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2025 WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088, fixed in v7.13, was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install RomCom malware. The WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088, a directory traversal bug fixed in version 7.13, was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to deliver RomCom malware, Bleeping Computer first reported. The flaw is a path traversal vulnerability affecting the Windows version of WinRAR. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious archive files. Researchers Anton Cherepanov, Peter Košinár, and Peter Strýček from ESET disclosed the flaw. Attackers…
Here’s a look inside Black Hat USA 2025. The featured vendors are: Stellar Cyber, Vonahi Security, Gurucul, Check Point, HackerOne, EasyDMARC, Elastic, Google, Tines, Veracode, VioletX, Pentera, Keep Aware, Oleria, SpyCloud, Trend Micro and Picus Security.
Dispel, a vendor of secure remote access for operational technology (OT), announced on Wednesday at Black Hat USA 2025 that they have entered a multi-year global partnership with ABB, a global technology leader in automation and electrification. Under this agreement, ABB will use Dispel’s technology to deliver secure, efficient remote services to industrial customers under ABB Care. ABB Care, a comprehensive service program, combines software maintenance, cybersecurity, and expert support to help customers maintain secure and efficient industrial control systems (ICS) while minimizing downtime and extending system life. By using Secure Remote Platform (SRP) to connect to automation software, sensors,…