North Korean hackers are running cyber attacks that focus on fraudulent cash-outs at ATM machines by hacking payment systems, augmenting with use of social engineering elements.
The Reddit suit claims that Anthropic began regularly scraping the site in December 2021. After being asked to stop, Anthropic issued a public statement in July 2024 indicating that it had stopped all crawling of Reddit for AI training data.
Phishing scams by a Chinese threat actor ‘Fangxiao’ employs over 42,000 brand impersonation domains to earn advertising revenue and spread malware via WhatsApp messages.
With a major GDPR fine of $123 million on Marriott following an even bigger $230 million fine on British Airways, businesses worldwide are now on notice to have adequate security safeguards in place to protect user data.
A cyber attack on London hospitals that has unfolded over the course of June has had a devastating impact on the city's blood supply, and has caused hundreds of operations to be postponed.
DICOM medical records systems that are commonly used to store sensitive images were found to expose billion of medical records just by scanning the server IP addresses and known ports.
Majority of the respondents in Amnesty International survey indicated that privacy concerns have changed their online behavior as there's no control over how companies use their personal data.
Preloaded apps on current Lenovo, HP and Dell systems are found to have unique and serious security vulnerabilities that require end users to take extra steps to fix.
SIM swap attack is on the rise which includes the recent Twitter hack on their CEO’s account. Attackers used social engineering to convince telco to switch target’s number to their own SIM cards.
Security researchers believe that Chinese hackers are to blame for the attack in part because of the "selective" nature of the targets that were chosen for follow-on compromise via malicious software updates. Notepad++ is a free and broadly popular piece of software that is thought to have tens of millions of users worldwide.
