04 Mar

Change Healthcare attack latest: ALPHV bags $22M in Bitcoin amid affiliate drama

ALPHV/BlackCat, the gang behind the Change Healthcare cyberattack, has received more than $22 million in Bitcoin in what might be a ransomware payment. Dmitry Smilyanets,

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04 Mar

Seoul accuses North Korea of stealing southern chipmakers’ designs

North Korean government spies have broken into the servers of at least two chipmakers and stolen product designs as part of attempts to spur Kim

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04 Mar

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco’s WebEx

The German Ministry of Defense (Bundeswehr) has confirmed that a recording of a call between high-ranking officials discussing war efforts in Ukraine, leaked by Russian

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04 Mar

Ransomware ban backers insist thugs must be cut off from payday

Global law enforcement authorities’ attempts to shutter the LockBit ransomware crew have sparked a fresh call for a ban on ransomware payments to perpetrators. Ciaran

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04 Mar

The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke’s on us

Opinion The best cop shows excel at mind games: who’s tricking whom, who really wins, and what price they pay. A twist of humor adds

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04 Mar

LockBit’s contested claim of fresh ransom payment suggests it’s been well hobbled

Infosec in brief The infamous LockBit ransomware gang has been busy in the ten days since an international law enforcement operation took down many of

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04 Mar

Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats

Feature Two US intelligence bigwigs last week issued stark warnings about foreign threats to American election integrity and security – and the nation’s ability to

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01 Mar

Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker

Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking dozens of classified Pentagon documents, is expected to plead guilty in a US court on Monday.

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01 Mar

Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code

NSO Group, the Israel-based maker of super-charged snoopware Pegasus, has been ordered by a federal judge in California to share the source code for “all

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01 Mar

Iranian charged over attacks against US defense contractors, government agencies

The US Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment accusing an Iranian national of a years-long campaign that compromised hundreds of thousands of accounts and

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01 Mar

Rise in Deceptive PDF: The Gateway to Malicious Payloads

Authored by Yashvi Shah and Preksha Saxena McAfee Labs has recently observed a significant surge in the distribution of prominent malware through PDF files. Malware

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01 Mar

In the vanguard of 21st century cyber threats

Webinar The quantum threat might seem futuristic, more like something you’d encounter in a science fiction film. But it’s arguably already a danger to real

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01 Mar

Cops visit school of ‘wrong person’s child,’ mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have repeatedly mixed

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01 Mar

Deceptive AI content and 2024 elections – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video As the specter of AI-generated disinformation looms large, tech giants vow to crack down on fabricated content that could sway voters and disrupt elections

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01 Mar

Keeping one step ahead of cyber security threats

Webinar Dealing with cyber security incidents is an expensive business. Each data breach costs an estimated $4.35 million on average and it’s not as if

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01 Mar

NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak

NTT West president Masaaki Moribayashi announced his resignation on Thursday, effective at the end of March, in atonement for the leak of data pertaining to

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01 Mar

GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks

A malware distribution campaign that began last May with a handful of malicious software packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) has spread to

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01 Mar

Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects’ push notifications

More than 130 petitions seeking access to push notification metadata have been filed in US courts, according to a Washington Post investigation – a finding

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