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Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran’s internet
WeRedEvils alleges successful attack on infrastructure, including data theft Israel-based hacktivists are taking credit for an ongoing internet outage in Iran.…
Respect your data, and protect it
Hear how AI runtime security secures applications in the complete journey from design to build to run Sponsored Post Ensuring access to mission critical, AI-enabled applications is important for modern businesses keen on boosting employee productivity and transforming customer operations. But not if it compromises data security.…
Fortune 50 biz coughed up record-breaking $75M ransom to halt leak of stolen data
They say crime doesn't pay. They're right – it's the victims doing the paying An unnamed Fortune 50 corporation paid a stonking $75 million to a ransomware gang to stop it leaking terabytes of stolen data.…
UK plans to revamp national cyber defense tools are already in motion
Work aims to build on the success of NCSC's 2016 initiative – and private sector will play a part The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says it's in the planning stages of bringing a new suite of services to its existing Active Cyber Defence (ACD) program.…
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.…
Ransomware infection cuts off blood supply to 250+ hospitals
Scumbags go for the jugular A ransomware attack against blood-donation nonprofit OneBlood, which services more than 250 American hospitals, has "significantly reduced" the org's ability to take, test, and distribute blood.…