29 May

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has been under a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since Sunday, and is trying to keep services going. While the San Francisco institution has

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29 May

North Korea building cash reserves using ransomware, video games

A brand-new cybercrime group that Microsoft ties to North Korea is tricking targets using fake job opportunities to launch malware and ransomware, all for financial

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29 May

ESET World 2024: Big on prevention, even bigger on AI

Hundreds of cybersecurity professionals, analysts and decision-makers came together earlier this month for ESET World 2024, a conference that showcased the company’s vision and technological

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28 May

2.8M US folks learn their personal info was swiped months ago in Sav-Rx IT heist

Sav-Rx has started notifying about 2.8 million people that their personal information was likely stolen during an IT intrusion that happened more than seven months

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28 May

BreachForums returns, just weeks after FBI-led takedown

BreachForums is back online just weeks after the notorious ransomware leak site was seized by law enforcement. Online threat hunters spotted the site’s resurgence, now

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28 May

SpiderOak One customers threaten to jump ship following datacenter upgrade

Over a month after an April datacenter upgrade coincided with problems with some of its customers’ backups, secure storage biz SpiderOak still isn’t fully operational,

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28 May

The Top 10 Riskiest Online Destinations Revealed

As Americans make their travel plans, scammers lie in wait. We’ve uncovered the top ten “riskiest” destinations for travel scams — places that turn up

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28 May

Auction house Christie’s confirms criminals stole some client data

International auctioning giant Christie’s has confirmed data was stolen during an online attack after a top-three ransomware group claimed credit. A reclining Henry Moore sculpture

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28 May

Beyond the buzz: Understanding AI and its role in cybersecurity

Digital Security A new white paper from ESET uncovers the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence for cyber-defenders Phil Muncaster 28 May 2024  •  ,

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28 May

Take two APIs and call me in the morning: How healthcare research can cure cyber crime

Opinion Some ideas work better than others. Take DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Launched by US President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 response

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27 May

How’s Uncle Sam getting on with Biden’s AI exec order? Pretty good, we’re told

Interview President Biden’s October executive order encouraging the safe use of AI included a ton of requirements for federal government agencies that are developing and

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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

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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

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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

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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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