A recent campaign of cyber attacks made new and novel use of the Claude AI chatbot in scanning VPN endpoints and automating multiple portions of the attack cycle, representing another step forward in the deployment of LLMs for malicious purposes.
Japanese electronics company Casio is still reeling from a ransomware attack that disrupted its systems, two weeks after the incident occurred and with no expected recovery timeline.
After 12 years at the head of the Hamburg data protection commission, Johannes Caspar is stepping down. The privacy commissioner returns to academia disillusioned with the GDPR, calling it "broken" and lamenting infighting.
Drawing on terms first proposed in a series of stalled-out data privacy bills that date back to at least 2018, the Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 (GSRA) narrows the focus specifically to warrantless government interception at all levels from federal to local.
Hackers used data from 2015 Ashley Madison data breach to conduct cyber extortion scams, asking users to pay more than $1,000 worth of Bitcoin.
INTERPOL’s arrested nearly 1,000 cybercriminals, recovered $130 million from 2,800 accounts linked to proceeds of crime, and closed 1,600 cases in Operation HAECHI III.
Israel's cyber response to cyber attacks launched by Hamas was to launch an air strike on a building known to be the cyber HQ for Hamas. It is believed to be the first time any military has responded to a digital threat with immediate force.
The U.S. Federal Government is a behemoth that touches every aspect of American life – and today the services and information needed by U.S. citizens are increasingly found online. However, the latest report on the state of U.S. federal websites indicates that they fail on some key indicators regarding web security.
Suspects affiliated with a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform used in LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Dharma ransomware attacks were detained in Ukraine and Switzerland.
Microsoft warns of social engineering attacks dubbed “payroll pirates” resulting in lost wages after hackers divert employees’ earnings to threat actor-controlled bank accounts.
