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12 on X and one on Instagram caught in the crackdown

OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian crew suspected of spreading fake news on social media sites about the upcoming US presidential campaign.…

Windows giant tells Cisco Talos it isn't fixing them

Cisco Talos says eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps could be abused by nefarious types to record video and sound from a user's device, access sensitive data, log user input, and escalate privileges.…

Investigators previously said the number was much, much higher

The data broker at the center of what may become one of the more significant breaches of the year is telling officials that just 1.3 million people were affected.…

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in brief  Malware that kills endpoint detection and response (EDR) software has been spotted on the scene and, given it's deploying RansomHub, it could soon be prolific.…

Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, more all out there

A Florida firm has all but confirmed that millions of people's sensitive personal info was stolen from it by cybercriminals and publicly leaked.…

Attacker locked out all staff for four days

The cryptocurrency offshoot of reality TV and entrepreneurship show Unicorn Hunters has confirmed that an unknown attacker compromised its G-Suite, locking all staff out of their accounts.…

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Webinar  In a world where cyber threats are continually evolving, staying informed is critical for IT and security professionals.…

Teams wanting the cash have to commit to handing their models to OpenSSF after next year's final

One year after it began, the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) has whittled its pool of contestants down to seven semifinalists.…

US politicians and Israeli officials among the top targets for the IRGC’s cyber unit

Google has joined Microsoft in publishing intel on Iranian cyber influence activity following a recent uptick in attacks that led to data being leaked from the Trump re-election campaign.…

He’ll also have to pay back $1.2 million from fraudulent transactions he facilitated

A Russian national is taking a trip to prison in the US after being found guilty of peddling stolen credentials on a popular dark web marketplace.…

Anydesk is its access tool of choice

A new extortion gang called Mad Liberator uses social engineering and the remote-access tool Anydesk to steal organizations' data and then demand a ransom payment, according to Sophos X-Ops.…

Payment arm of Korean messaging app denies any illegal activity

Kakao Pay, a subsidiary of Korea's WhatsApp analog Kakao, handed over data from more than 40 million users to the Singaporean arm of Chinese payment platform Alipay, without user consent, Korea's financial watchdog revealed Tuesday.…

No, no, go ahead, don't let us stop you, Xi

Cyber-spies suspected of connections with China have infected "dozens" of computers belonging to Russian government agencies and IT providers with backdoors and trojans since late July, according to Kaspersky.…

Citizen Lab also spots a COLDWASTREL swimming in the Rivers of Phish

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) cyberspies, joined by a new digital snooping crew, have been conducting a massive online phishing espionage campaign via phishing against targets in the US and Europe over the past two years, according to the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.…

Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with "millions in lump sum payments" from the sale

Texas has sued General Motors for what it said is a years-long scheme to collect and sell drivers' data to third parties - including insurance companies - without their knowledge or consent. …

Three state attorneys general probed the company and found plenty to chastise

Biotech biz Enzo Biochem is being forced to pay three state attorneys general a $4.5 million penalty following a 2023 ransomware attack that compromised the data of more than 2.4 million people.…

Company admits turning human women into faceless, sexualized furniture was a 'tone deaf' marketing ploy

If you attended the Black Hat conference in Vegas last week and found yourself over in Palo Alto Networks' corner of the event, you may have encountered a marketing gimmick that has since been heavily criticized for misogyny.…

Questions raised as one of the world's largest PC makers joins America's critical defense team

Opinion  Lenovo's participation in a cybersecurity initiative has reopened old questions over the company's China origins, especially in light of the growing mistrust between Washington and Beijing over technology.…

There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls

India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) on Tuesday directed telcos to stop calls from unregistered telemarketers – and prevent them from using networks again for up to two years – as part of an effort to curb spam and scams.…

Nicely ahead of that always-a-decade-away moment when all our info becomes an open book

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released the long-awaited post-quantum encryption standards, designed to protect electronic information long into the future – when quantum computers are expected to break existing cryptographic algorithms.…