August 15, 2024
DARPA, ARPA-H award $14m to 7 AIxCC semifinalists, with a catch
Teams wanting the cash have to commit to handing their models to OpenSSF after next year's final One year after it began, the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) has whittled its pool of contestants down to seven semifinalists.…
Google raps Iran’s APT42 for raining down spear-phishing attacks
US politicians and Israeli officials among the top targets for the IRGC’s cyber unit Google has joined Microsoft in publishing intel on Iranian cyber influence activity following a recent uptick in attacks that led to data being leaked from the Trump re-election campaign.…
Russian man who sold logins to nearly 3,000 accounts gets 40 months in jail
He’ll also have to pay back $1.2 million from fraudulent transactions he facilitated A Russian national is taking a trip to prison in the US after being found guilty of peddling stolen credentials on a popular dark web marketplace.…
Mad Liberator extortion crew emerges on the cyber-crook scene
Anydesk is its access tool of choice A new extortion gang called Mad Liberator uses social engineering and the remote-access tool Anydesk to steal organizations' data and then demand a ransom payment, according to Sophos X-Ops.…
Over 40 million Kakao Pay users’ data somehow ended up with Alipay
Payment arm of Korean messaging app denies any illegal activity Kakao Pay, a subsidiary of Korea's WhatsApp analog Kakao, handed over data from more than 40 million users to the Singaporean arm of Chinese payment platform Alipay, without user consent, Korea's financial watchdog revealed Tuesday.…
China-linked cyber-spies infect Russian govt, IT sector
No, no, go ahead, don't let us stop you, Xi Cyber-spies suspected of connections with China have infected "dozens" of computers belonging to Russian government agencies and IT providers with backdoors and trojans since late July, according to Kaspersky.…