18 Mar

North Korea’s 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un

Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea’s fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies

Author rabih
18 Mar

Britain’s satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK’s secure communications

Author rabih
18 Mar

Iran’s cyberattack against med tech firm is ‘just the beginning’

Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts. “Cyber and terrorism are the two levers

Author rabih
18 Mar

Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports

Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects

Author rabih
18 Mar

Japan to allow ‘proactive cyber-defense’ from October 1st

Japan’s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara yesterday used his

Author rabih
17 Mar

WorldCoin‘s newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you

Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the

Author rabih
17 Mar

EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach

The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks. Based in

Author rabih
17 Mar

Too big to ignore, too small to be served: the midmarket security gap

Partner Content The midmarket matters. JP Morgan estimates approximately 300,000 organizations generating $13T in annual revenue. Yet they occupy an awkward position in the security landscape.

Author rabih
17 Mar

Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn’t noticed yet

Feature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of

Author rabih
17 Mar

Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes

Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users

Author rabih
17 Mar

Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because users may be too lazy to check its mistakes

Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users

Author rabih
17 Mar

Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats

Australia’s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered

Author rabih
16 Mar

Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack

Robotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee’s credentials during

Author rabih
16 Mar

Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war

Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts

Author rabih
16 Mar

AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains… for cybercriminals

AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are

Author rabih
16 Mar

Flaw in UK’s corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records

Companies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a “security issue” that exposed the personal details of

Author rabih
15 Mar

Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters

Infosec In Brief Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack. The company said it is “investigating a cybersecurity incident involving

Author rabih
13 Mar

Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others

A group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users’ credentials,

Author rabih
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