01 Feb

Biden will veto attempts to kill off SEC’s security breach reporting rules

The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) strict data breach reporting rule. In

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01 Feb

Biden will veto attempts to rip up SEC breach reporting rule

The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) strict data breach reporting rule. In

Author rabih
01 Feb

LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children’s hospital

Ransomware gang LockBit is claiming responsibility for an attack on a Chicago children’s hospital in an apparent deviation from its previous policy of not targeting

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01 Feb

VajraSpy: A Patchwork of espionage apps

ESET researchers have identified twelve Android espionage apps that share the same malicious code: six were available on Google Play, and six were found on

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01 Feb

Congress told how Chinese attackers plan to incite ‘societal chaos’ in the US

Chinese attackers are preparing to “wreak havoc” on American infrastructure and “cause societal chaos” in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US

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31 Jan

FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon’s botnet

China’s Volt Typhoon attackers used “hundreds” of outdated Cisco and NetGear routers infected with malware in an attempt to break into US critical infrastructure facilities,

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31 Jan

Ransomware payment rates drop to new low – only 29% of victims are forking over cash

Trusting a ransomware crew to honor a deal isn’t the greatest idea, and the world seems to be waking up to that. The number of

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31 Jan

Nearly 4-year-old Cisco vuln linked to recent Akira ransomware attacks

Security researchers believe the Akira ransomware group could be exploiting a nearly four-year-old Cisco vulnerability and using it as an entry point into organizations’ systems.

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31 Jan

We know nations are going after critical systems, but what happens when crims join in?

Volt Typhoon, the Chinese government-backed cyberspies whose infrastructure was at least partially disrupted by Uncle Sam, has been honing in on other US energy, satellite

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31 Jan

Ivanti releases patches for VPN zero-days, discloses two more high-severity vulns

Ivanti has finally released the first round of patches for vulnerability-stricken Connect Secure and Policy Secure gateways, but in doing so has also found two

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31 Jan

ESET Research Podcast: ChatGPT, the MOVEit hack, and Pandora

ESET Research An AI chatbot inadvertently kindles a cybercrime boom, ransomware bandits plunder organizations without deploying ransomware, and a new botnet enslaves Android TV boxes

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30 Jan

Was the Fake Joe Biden Robocall Created with AI? 

As voters in the recent New Hampshire primary have found, a fake robocall of President Joe Biden has been making the rounds. Using AI voice-cloning

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30 Jan

US shorts China’s Volt Typhoon crew targeting America’s criticals

The US Justice Department and FBI may have scored a win over Chinese state-sponsored snoops trying to break into American critical infrastructure. Citing “two Western

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30 Jan

Jenkins jitters as 45,000 servers still vulnerable to RCE attacks after patch released

The number of public-facing installs of Jenkins servers vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical vulnerability is in the tens of thousands. Scans from internet security

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30 Jan

Reg story prompts fresh security bulletin, review of Juniper Networks’ CVE process

Juniper Networks has disclosed separate vulnerabilities it was previously accused of concealing, and apologized to customers for the error in communication. The update, which happened

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30 Jan

ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt the Grandoreiro banking trojan

ESET has collaborated with the Federal Police of Brazil in an attempt to disrupt the Grandoreiro botnet. ESET contributed to the project by providing technical

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30 Jan

UK biometrics boss bows out, bemoaning bureaucratic blunders

The farewell report written by the UK’s biometrics and surveillance commissioner highlights a litany of failings in the Home Office’s approach to governing the technology.

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29 Jan

SolarWinds slams SEC lawsuit against it as ‘unprecedented’ victim blaming

SolarWinds – whose network monitoring software was backdoored by Russian spies so that the biz’s customers could be spied upon – has accused America’s financial

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