27 May

Bayer and 12 other major drug companies caught up in Cencora data loss

Infosec in brief More than a dozen big pharmaceutical suppliers have begun notifying individuals that their data was stolen when US drug wholesaler Cencora was

Author rabih
24 May

Man behind deepfake Biden robocall indicted on felony charges, faces $6M fine

The political consultant who admitted paying $150 to create a deepfake anti-Biden robocall has been indicted on charges of felony voter suppression and misdemeanor impersonation

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24 May

Best Buy and Geek Squad were most impersonated orgs by scammers in 2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shared data on the most impersonated companies in 2023, which include Best Buy, Amazon, and PayPal in the top

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24 May

Suspected supply chain attack backdoors courtroom recording software

Justice is served… or should that be saved now that audio-visual software deployed in more than 10,000 courtrooms is once again secure after researchers uncovered

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24 May

Deepfake Drama: How Gwyneth Paltrow Became the Latest Target in AI Deception

As technology advances, so do the methods used by cybercriminals to spread misinformation and scams. One of the most concerning developments in recent years is

Author rabih
24 May

Mandatory reporting for ransomware attacks? – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video As the UK mulls new rules for ransomware disclosure, what would be the wider implications of such a move, how would cyber-insurance come into

Author rabih
24 May

Three-year-old Apache Flink flaw under active attack

An improper access control bug in Apache Flink that was fixed in January 2021 has been added to the US government’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog,

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23 May

Here’s yet more ransomware using BitLocker against Microsoft’s own users

Yet more ransomware is using Microsoft BitLocker to encrypt corporate files, steal the decryption key, and then extort a payment from victim organizations, according to

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23 May

Casino cyberattacks put a bullseye on Scattered Spider – and the FBI is closing in

Interview The cyberattacks against Las Vegas casinos over the summer put a big target on the backs of Scattered Spider, the suspected perps, according to

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23 May

Google guru roasts useless phishing tests, calls for fire drill-style overhaul

A Google security bigwig has had enough of federally mandated phishing tests, saying they make colleagues hate IT teams for no added benefit. Matt Linton

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23 May

Veeam says critical flaw can’t be abused to trash backups

Veeam says the recent critical vulnerability in its Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM) can’t be used by cybercriminals to delete an organization’s backups. Rated 9.8 out

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23 May

70% of CISOs worry their org is at risk of a material cyber attack

Chief information security officers around the globe “are nervously looking over the horizon,” according to a survey of 1,600 CISOs that found more than two

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23 May

Introducing Nimfilt: A reverse-engineering tool for Nim-compiled binaries

ESET Research Available as both an IDA plugin and a Python script, Nimfilt helps to reverse engineer binaries compiled with the Nim programming language compiler

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23 May

UK data watchdog wants six figures from N Ireland cops after 2023 data leak

Following a data leak that brought “tangible fear of threat to life”, the UK’s data protection watchdog says it intends to fine the Police Service

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23 May

How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe

In-depth Academics have suggested that Apple’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can be abused to create a global privacy nightmare. In a paper titled, “Surveilling the

Author rabih
23 May

Would you buy Pegasus spyware from this scammer?

Indian infosec firm CloudSEK warned on Wednesday that scammers are selling counterfeit code advertised as the NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware. “Threat actors created their

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23 May

‘China-aligned’ spyware slingers operating since 2018 unmasked at last

Bitdefender says it has tracked down and exposed an online gang that has been operating since 2018 nearly without a trace – and likely working

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23 May

Lawmakers advance bill to tighten White House grip on AI model exports

The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to advance a law bill expanding the White House’s authority to police exports of AI systems – including

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