Cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike has released a version of its Falcon platform, called Falcon Go, that’s aimed at small and medium size (SMB) businesses and designed to provide a one-stop, frictionless security product that lets AI do the work instead of IT staff. Falcon Go is designed to act as endpoint protection that’s easy to deploy, […]
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Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in […]
Cyber NewsThe Federal Trade Commission is running a competition “to foster breakthrough ideas on preventing, monitoring, and evaluating malicious voice cloning.”
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The Federal Trade Commission is running a competition “to foster breakthrough ideas on preventing, monitoring, and evaluating malicious voice cloning.”
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Biden Issues Sweeping New AI & Cybersecurity Regulations Tech Enters Its ‘Obamacare’ Phase with the Advent of ‘Obamacode’ Obama’s back and Judgment Day’s here. In a significant policy shift reminiscent of the healthcare reform under Obamacare, the Biden Administration has announced a comprehensive new set of regulations addressing the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence […]
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A zero-day flaw in the Zimbra Collaboration email software was exploited by four different groups in real-world attacks to pilfer email data, user credentials, and authentication tokens. “Most of this activity occurred after the initial fix became public on GitHub,” Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The […]
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A hacking group that leveraged a recently disclosed security flaw in the WinRAR software as a zero-day has now been categorized as an entirely new advanced persistent threat (APT). Cybersecurity company NSFOCUS has described DarkCasino as an “economically motivated” actor that first came to light in 2021. “DarkCasino is an APT threat actor with strong […]
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Interesting article about a surprisingly common vulnerability: programmers leaving authentication credentials and other secrets in publicly accessible software code: Researchers from security firm GitGuardian this week reported finding almost 4,000 unique secrets stashed inside a total of 450,000 projects submitted to PyPI, the official code repository for the Python programming language. Nearly 3,000 projects contained […]
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The threat actors behind the Rhysida ransomware engage in opportunistic attacks targeting organizations spanning various industry sectors. The advisory comes courtesy of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). “Observed as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, Rhysida actors have compromised […]
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