August 2024
UK crimebusters shut down global call-spoofing outfit that claimed 170K-plus victims
Suspected devs behind Russian Coms cuffed – now to find the users of the nastyware The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down an outfit called Russian Coms – a call-spoofing service believed to have swindled hundreds of thousands of victims.…
FBI, CISA remind US voters that DDoS attacks can’t touch election systems
PSA comes amid multiple IT services crises in recent days US law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are reminding the public that the country's voting systems will remain unaffected by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as the next presidential election fast approaches.…
How to counter adversarial AI
Using Precision AI to stop cyber threats in real time Sponsored Hackers and cyber criminals are busy finding new ways of using AI to launch attacks on businesses and organisations often unprepared to deal with the speed, scale and sophistication of the assaults directed against them.…
Firefox’s Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust’s TLS certificates
Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority Mozilla is following in Google Chrome's footsteps in officially distrusting Entrust as a root certificate authority (CA) following what it says was a protracted period of compliance failures.…
Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency
Meanwhile, US apparently considers further AI hardware sanctions Germany's government has named China-controlled actors as the perpetrators of a 2021 cyber attack on the Federal Office of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) – the official mapping agency.…