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Three people have accused Apple of promoting a fake Sparrow Wallet app that drained $1.8 million from their wallets. The fake app asked for recovery phrases and handed them to criminals.
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Three individuals have filed a federal lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of promoting a fake version of the Sparrow Wallet cryptocurrency app on its App Store, leading to $1.8 million in losses. The fake app, which appeared between May and August 2025, tricked users into entering their recovery phrases, which were then stolen by scammers.
Anthropic confirmed that its Claude AI assistant experienced a worldwide outage on July 29, 2026, with users receiving '529 Overloaded' errors across multiple Claude models. The disruption affected both the Claude chat interface and third-party tools relying on the Claude API. Anthropic began investigating at 7:49 p.m.
Cisco has issued an emergency warning that a high-severity static credential vulnerability in Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), tracked as CVE-2026-20316, is being actively exploited in zero-day attacks. The flaw stems from hardcoded credentials for a low-privilege account in Cisco Secure FMC Software, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to log in and access sensitive data.