An international law enforcement operation took down a phishing-as-a-service website that security researchers say was responsible for more than 150,000 phishing domains. The site, 16shop, sold phishing kits that targeted more than 70,000 people in 43 countries.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order limiting investment in Chinese companies that develop advanced technologies including artificial intelligence. The order is the latest national security barrier the United States has mounted against Chinese access to American markets and investment.
Ukrainian cyber defenders said they had thwarted an attempt by Russian military intelligence to deploy widespread malware programmed to spy on battlefield management apps. Russian hackers' preparation for the malware campaign was "long-term and thorough," Ukraine's SBU said.
Tampa General Hospital is facing at least three proposed federal class action lawsuits filed in recent days following the nonprofit Florida healthcare provider's disclosure late last month of a data theft incident that affected 1.3 million patients and employees.
Data protection agencies in Finland and Norway on Tuesday imposed a temporary data transfer ban on Russian ride-hailing app Yango over concerns that Moscow could access sensitive data of Europeans. The ban comes before a Russian law granting the FSB access to taxi users' data takes effect Sept. 1.
The White House has launched an Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge, backed by DARPA and offering nearly $20 million in prizes, to develop a new generation of tools that can rapidly find and fix software vulnerabilities in both commercial and open-source code.
Police officers in Northern Ireland are sounding alarms over their personal safety after a data breach revealed the surnames and locations where they serve for nearly 10,000 police officers and staff. Experts warn this could lead to "their death or injury" at the hands of criminals or terrorists.
Rapid7 will lay off close to 1 in 5 of its employees in cuts that amount to the second-largest round of layoffs of any pure-play cybersecurity company since worries about an economic downturn began percolating in spring 2022. The vendor will reduce its 2,623-person staff by 18%.
Many security awareness training programs fail because organizations don't understand the risks they face, said Culture AI's John Scott. He said a successful training program "will help people by making sure that it's targeting the behaviors that address the key risks for the organization."
In this episode of CyberEd.io's podcast series "Cybersecurity Insights," Alisdair Faulkner of security and fraud prevention startup Darwinium discussed how the FedNow Service will add a layer of complexity to defending against real-time financial fraud scams used in faster payments transactions.
Rubrik purchased a data security posture management startup backed by Salesforce and SentinelOne to provide visibility into where a company's data lives and who has access. The Laminar buy will help organizations expand beyond network and endpoint security and into cloud and data security.
The U.K. Electoral Commission suffered a "complex cyber-attack" in 2021, resulting in hackers accessing sensitive voter information. Commission CEO Shaun McNally said the attack resulted in hackers accessing copies of electoral register files that the agency uses for research purposes.
Japanese classified military networks reportedly suffered a massive breach in 2020 at the hands of a Chinese cyberespionage group that proved tough to eject. One cybersecurity expert said Chinese cyberespionage groups targeting Japan and its allies are employing ever more "stealthy intrusions."
Hackers attempting to spy on the Ukrainian government are using an open-source remote access Trojan, said Kyiv cyber defenders. The RAT, MerlinAgent, is available on GitHub. The threat actor spoofed the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine in phishing emails.
Citing several growing concerns, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., on Tuesday sent a letter quizzing Google CEO Sundar Pichai about how the tech giant is applying privacy, trust and ethical "guardrails" around the development and use of its generative AI product, Med-PaLM 2, in patient care settings.
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