The International Criminal Court (ICC), which handles highly sensitive information about war crimes, says its computer system has been hacked. Key points: The ICC said it had detected unusual activity on its computer network at the end of last week, prompting a response that was ongoing. A spokesperson declined to comment on how serious the […]
The peer-to-peer (P2) worm known as P2PInfect has witnessed a surge in activity since late August 2023, witnessing a 600x jump between September 12 and 19, 2023. “This increase in P2PInfect traffic has coincided with a growing number of variants seen in the wild, suggesting that the malware’s developers are operating at an extremely high
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The ABC can reveal former staff of hacked tele-fundraiser Pareto Phone were not told for weeks that their highly sensitive employment information was published on the dark web. More than 320,000 files stolen from Pareto servers by cybercriminals in April were made public on the dark web last month, including tens of thousands of charity
As cost-of-living pressures continue to climb, people are looking for creative ways to save. One method gaining popularity on social media is called “cash stuffing”. It’s a reinvention of the old envelope system our grandparents used to use, and it’s bringing back the use of physical cash. In Australia, cash accounted for just 13 per cent of
Rehovot, Israel (September 21, 2023) – , the innovative provider of the first Instant and Safe Cyber-Attack Recovery Platform for Critical Assets and Operational Technologies (OT), today announced that the company has won funding for a $2.2m cybersecurity project from the Israel-United States Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, an organization that provides capital for joint
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A previously unknown threat actor dubbed ‘Sandman’ targets telecommunication service providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and South Asia, using a modular info-stealing malware named ‘LuaDream.’ This malicious activity was discovered by SentinelLabs in collaboration with QGroup GmbH in August 2023, who named the threat actor and malware after the backdoor’s internal name of
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In July, the US government announced the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES) which is aimed at addressing both immediate and long-term cyber workforce needs. This NCWES is aimed specifically at filling cyber job vacancies across the US, with President Biden saying the government is working to help communities — including those currently underrepresented in the
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Funding fuels additional Dragos expansion as demand accelerates to protect operational technology in critical and industrial infrastructure HANOVER, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 18, 2023– Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, today announced a $74 million Series D extension, led by strategic operating and investing firm WestCap. The equity
Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday. Two weeks ago, Apple reported that threat actors were actively exploiting a critical vulnerability
Presented by Zscaler Early in 2023, we saw the explosive use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT accompanied by laymen fears of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) revolution and forecasted disruptions to markets. Without a doubt, AI will have a massive and transformative impact on much of what we do, but the time has come for a more
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