16 Jun

Scattered Spider has moved from retail to insurance

Cyber-crime crew Scattered Spider has infected US insurance companies following a series of ransomware attacks against American and British retailers, according to Google, which urged

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16 Jun

Remorseless extortionists claim to have stolen thousands of files from Freedman HealthCare

An extortion gang claims to have breached Freedman HealthCare, a data and analytics firm whose customers include state agencies, health providers, and insurance companies, and

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16 Jun

Canada’s WestJet says ‘expect interruptions’ online as it navigates cybersecurity turbulence

Canadian airline WestJet is warning of “intermittent interruptions or errors” on its app and website as it investigates a cybersecurity incident. The airline first became

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16 Jun

Eurocops arrest suspected Archetyp admin, shut down mega dark web drug shop

Operation Deep Sentinel is the latest international law enforcement collaboration against cybercrime, shutting down Archetyp – one of the largest dark web drug marketplaces. Launched

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16 Jun

Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests

A new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for

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16 Jun

Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe

Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area will shortly receive a new Recall Export feature, allowing Recall snapshots to be shared with third-party apps

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16 Jun

Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data

A former GCHQ intern was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for stealing top-secret files during a year-long placement at the British intelligence agency. Hasaan Arshad, now

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16 Jun

How collaborative security can build you a better business

Sponsored Post Here’s a sobering reality: 95% of data breaches involve human error. So, why do most organizations still throw technology at a fundamentally human

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16 Jun

Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme

Asia In Brief Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security

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15 Jun

Dems demand audit of CVE program as Federal funding remains uncertain

Infosec In Brief A pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued US

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13 Jun

Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US

The current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being

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13 Jun

Do you trust Xi with your ‘private’ browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says

Both Apple’s and Google’s online stores offer free virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by Chinese companies, according to researchers at the Tech Transparency Project,

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13 Jun

Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks

Apple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon’s Graphite spyware. The infections

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13 Jun

Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years’ experience and a PhD

Cybersecurity hiring managers need a reality check when it comes to hiring junior staff, with job adverts littered with unfair expectations that are hampering recruitment

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13 Jun

Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home

Four staffers at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator data to their

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12 Jun

Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks

Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers’ customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management

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12 Jun

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Cybersecurity Workforce

Credit: NICE The NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) was revised in November 2020 as NIST Special Publication 800-181 rev.1 to enable more effective

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12 Jun

‘Major compromise’ at NHS temping arm exposed gaping security holes

Exclusive Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK’s NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never

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