Samsung Electronics has approved a massive shareholder return program expected to total between 90 trillion won and 110 trillion won (roughly $65 billion to $79.5 billion) in 2026. The decision represents the largest annual capital return package in South Korean corporate history, roughly five times the size of Samsung's previous annual record set in 2020. Editorial credit: MeSamong / Shutterstock The announcement follows a 40 trillion won ($29 billion) stock buyback and canc

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) has hit Uber Technologies Inc. with an €825 million ($966 million) fine for deactivating driver accounts using fully automated systems without human oversight. The decision marks the second-largest penalty ever issued under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), trailing only the €1.2 billion fine levied against Meta in 2023. Editorial credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock GDPR Violations and A

U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest commercial banking institution in the United States, is currently investigating claims made by the prolific ransomware group LockBit that it breached the bank’s internal systems. The threat actors added the financial institution to their dark web leak site, establishing a September 4 deadline for extortion negotiations before threatening to release exfiltrated files. Extortion Deadline Without Proof-of-Possession Samples Unlike typical ransomware

5. Sec Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach as vishing wave targets major Wall Street institutions Alternative asset management giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed it suffered a data breach involving sensitive personal information following a sophisticated social engineering attack. The disclosure, detailed in regulatory filings and breach notification letters, makes Apollo one of the highest-profile victims in a coordinated extortion campaign targeting ma

OpenAI has released a native Apple Messages plugin for its ChatGPT desktop application on macOS, allowing the AI assistant to read, search, and send iMessage, SMS, and RCS texts directly from a user's Mac. The integration, available across all ChatGPT subscription tiers for Apple silicon Macs, operates within the platform's ChatGPT Work and Codex workspace environments. The release enables the AI assistant to synthesize message histories, draft context-aware responses, check