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#10 ‘Mother of All Breaches’ Data Leak Reveals 26 Billion Account Records Stolen from Twitter, LinkedIn, More - Brooke Cato for The New York Post
One of the largest data breaches to date could compromise billions of accounts worldwide, prompting concerns of widespread cybercrime. Dubbed the “Mother of All Breaches,” the massive leak revealed 26 billion records — including popular sites like LinkedIn, Snapchat, Venmo, Adobe, and X, formerly Twitter — in what experts are calling the biggest leak in history. The compromised data includes more than just login credentials, according to experts. Much of it is “sensitive,” making it “valuable for malicious actors,” per Cybernews, which first discovered the breach on an unsecured website...
#9 Dangerous TA866 Malware Returns with Devious New Phishing Campaign - Sead Fadilpašić for Techradar
After a nine-month hiatus, the infamous TA866 threat actor is back, a new report from cybersecurity researchers Proofpoint has claimed, having recently observed a large phishing campaign targeting people in North America. As per its report, Proofpoint says TA866 sent “several thousand emails” with subjects such as “Project achievements” and similar. The emails carried a PDF attachment with names like “Document_[10 digits].prf” and similar. These documents contained a OneDrive URL which, if clicked, launched a multi-step infection chain that ultimately deployed a variant of the WasabiSeed malware...
#8 Americans Feeling Betrayed by Supreme Court for Voting in Favor of Biden’s Border Agents to Allow More Illegals In - Asir F for Independent News
The illegal migrant crisis has taken a notch further with this Supreme Court decision. Furthermore, Americans, albeit conservatives or liberals, are rather upset at this decision as they fought for some of the Supreme Court panel to be there. X users felt that this decision was a betrayal of the American people. Breitbart states, in a contentious move, the Supreme Court, sharply divided in a five-to-four vote, granted a temporary stay allowing Biden administration agents to open Texas’s border barrier. This decision blocks an earlier appeals court ruling favoring Texas in an ongoing clash between the Biden administration’s open border policies and Texas’s attempts to fortify its border. Two Republican-appointed justices sided with the Democrats in this temporary stay, complicating the litigation. The disagreement centers on Texas’s use of concertina wire along the border, causing a drop in illegal crossings. The Supreme Court’s decision amplifies the tensions in the border security dispute, setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle...
#7 Ocean Freight Rates Skyrocketing – Wall Street Journal on RT
The average cost of a container has more than doubled globally in the past month, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal published on Sunday. The disruptions caused by the continued Houthi attacks on cargo vessels in the Red Sea are sending shockwaves across global supply chains, delaying shipments, and raising transportation costs, the article states. The data cited by the outlet, which is from London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants, shows that the average worldwide cost of shipping a 40-foot container jumped 23% to $3,777 just in the week ending January 18. That puts the current rate at more than double what was being charged a month ago...
#6 Federal Agency Spent Nearly $20 Billion to Settle Migrants All Over the US - Charlotte Hazard for Just the News
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) spent almost $20 billion in the years 2022 and 2023 on refugee resettlement, according to a recent report. According to OpenTheBooks, the ORR, which is a part of Health and Human Services, spent $8.9 billion in fiscal year 2022 and $10.9 billion in fiscal year 2023 when migrant encounters at the U.S. southern border were at an all-time high. It was also reported that a majority of the money was given to nonprofits that would help migrants save up for large necessities such as a house or car...
#5 First Chicago, Now Boston: A Hundred Migrants are Sleeping on the Floors of Sanctuary City's Logan Airport - Harriet Alexander for The Daily Mail
Around 100 migrant men, women, and children are camped out in Boston's main international airport, with the state's shelter system having reached capacity in November and the governor begging the federal government to do more to help. Footage obtained by CBS News showed rows of people sleeping on the floor. One woman, Keturah Douze, said she had been collecting hygiene products to try and help them. 'While they're at the airport, they don't have access to a shower, so there's like some shower wipes, little towels, just to clean up while they wait,' she said...
#4 Audio Recording Reveals the Moment that Senior Republican Figure Tried to Bribe Kari Lake Not to Run for Senate - Rob Crilly for The Daily Mail
An audio recording obtained by DailyMail.com reveals the extraordinary moment when what appears to be Arizona's top Republican official tried to bribe populist firebrand Kari Lake not to run in the state's Senate race. Jeff DeWit, 51, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, can be heard asking Lake, a close ally of Donald Trump, to name her price to stay out of politics for two years. 'There are very powerful people who want to keep you out,' he tells her in a conversation recorded at the start of March last year...
#3 What do they know? World's Billionaires are Building Bunkers and Assembling Fortresses Outside Their Mansions - Kim Komando and Matthew Phelan for Daily Mail
'Doomsday prepping' used to be seen as a hobby relegated to the paranoid fringe — but ordinary Americans spent a staggering $11 billion on survival items just last year, from April 2022 to April 2023. About a third of US citizens admit to prepping, surveys show, but few have the resources today's billionaire bunker-builders have to devote to their own shelters. The world's wealthiest have increasingly spent hundreds of millions on securing underground compounds, private islands, and (for the merely rich) 'survival condos.'
#2 Netflix Shares Pop 10% as Atreamer Adds 13.1 Million Subscribers, Tops Revenue Estimates - Sarah Whitten for CNBC
Shares of Netflix jumped in premarket trading Wednesday after the company reported adding 13.1 million subscribers during the fourth quarter, stronger growth than Wall Street expected as the streamer builds its ad-supported service and cracks down on password sharing. Netflix now has 260.8 million paid subscribers, a new record for the service, it said when it reported quarterly results after the bell Tuesday. The subscriber growth easily tops the 8.76 million paid membership ads Netflix reported in the third quarter. The company also blew past Wall Street's fourth-quarter expectations of 8 million to 9 million...
#1 Donald Trump Wins Again, as Former President Quickly Beats Nikki Haley in New Hampshire GOP Primary - Paul Steinhauser for Fox News
Eight days after he crushed the competition in Iowa's low-turnout Republican presidential caucuses, Trump quickly defeated Nikki Haley - his final remaining major rival for the GOP nomination - in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. Fox News projected Trump would win the primary just a few minutes after the final polls closed in New Hampshire. "I’m very honored by the result," Trump told Fox News Digital's Brooke Singman in a statement. Haley said in a speech to supporters in Concord, New Hampshire after the race was called, "I want to congratulate Donald Trump on his victory tonight. He earned it, and I want to acknowledge that."
And Now for Something Special 
'Wholesome' Moment Cat Reacts to His New Tiny Pillow Watched by 95M - Lucy Notarantonio for Newsweek 90
Prepare for your heart to melt as you watch the moment a cat receives a tiny handmade pillow. The clip, shared on January 17, has amassed 95.3 million views and 7.9 million likes.
