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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: FBI is targeting Scattered Spider, Australia’s MediSecure hacked, new Wi-Fi attack.
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Australian and US authorities collaborated to identify and charge the alleged cybercriminals, who face many years in prison.
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The cybersecurity incident has disrupted Boston Scientific’s ability to process and ship customer orders.
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The pro-Russian hacker group Server Killers claimed responsibility for the attack.
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A ReliaQuest employee fell victim to a phishing attack and the hackers gained access to a dashboard.
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The hacking forum BreachForums is displaying a notice claiming that the website is under the control of the FBI.
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When not scamming other criminals, criminals are concentrating on the use of mainstream AI products rather than developing their own AI systems.
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Zscaler says its customer, production and corporate environments are not impacted after a notorious hacker offers to sell access.
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Germany recalled its ambassador to Russia for a week of consultations in Berlin following an alleged hacker attack on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party.
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Vincent Strubel, who heads France’s national cybersecurity agency, called the cyberthreats level facing the Olympic Games unprecedented.
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A botnet dismantled in January and used by Russia-linked APT28 consisted of more than just Ubiquiti Edge OS routers.
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Yaroslav Vasinskyi was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison for his alleged role in the REvil ransomware operation.
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Verizon’s 2024 DBIR shows that vulnerability exploitation increased three times and confirmed data breaches doubled compared to the previous year.
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In February 2023, French police arrested well-known Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki, who was living under a false identity near Paris. He was deported to...
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A vulnerability in the WordPress Automatic plugin is being exploited to inject backdoors and web shells into websites.
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Cannes Hospital Centre – Simone Veil cancels medical procedures after shutting down systems in response to a cyberattack.
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Telecom giant Frontier shuts down systems to contain a cyberattack that led to personal information compromise.
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LabHost, a major phishing-as-a-service platform, has been shut down as part of a major law enforcement operation.
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Charles O. Parks III was arrested and charged with defrauding two cloud-services providers of $3.5 million.
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Authorities in Australia and the US have arrested and charged two individuals for developing and selling the Hive RAT.
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Former security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to prison for hacking and defrauding cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Operational for at least ten years, RubyCarp has its own botnet, its own tools, and its own community of users that concentrate on cryptomining...
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LastPass this week revealed that one of its employees was targeted in a phishing attack involving deepfake technology.
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The financial sector has suffered over 20,000 cyberattacks in two decades, causing more than $12 billion in losses.
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