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Ransomware Gang Claims Cyberattack on Planned Parenthood Ionut Arghire
Planned Parenthood confirms “cybersecurity incident” as RansomHub ransomware gang threatens to leak 93 Gb of data stolen from the nonprofit last week. The post Ransomware Gang Claims Cyberattack on Planned Parenthood appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Chinese-Speaking Hacker Group Targets Human Rights Studies in Middle East [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Unnamed government entities in the Middle East and Malaysia are the target of a persistent cyber campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as Tropic Trooper since June 2023. “Sighting this group’s [Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures] in critical governmental entities in the Middle East, particularly those related to human rights studies, marks a new strategic…
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Veeam Releases Security Updates to Fix 18 Flaws, Including 5 Critical Issues [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Veeam has shipped security updates to address a total of 18 security flaws impacting its software products, including five critical vulnerabilities that could result in remote code execution. The list of shortcomings is below – CVE-2024-40711 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication that allows unauthenticated remote code execution. CVE-2024-42024 (CVSS…
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The AI Wild West: Unraveling the Security and Privacy Risks of GenAI Apps Alastair Paterson
GenAI users are uploading data to over eight apps every month – what are the security and privacy concerns? The post The AI Wild West: Unraveling the Security and Privacy Risks of GenAI Apps appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Acuvity Raises $9 Million Seed Funding for Gen-AI Governance and In-house Development Kevin Townsend
Activity emerged from stealth with $9 million seed funding to provide solutions for enterprises to safely adopt GenAI. The post Acuvity Raises $9 Million Seed Funding for Gen-AI Governance and In-house Development appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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U.S. Seizes 32 Pro-Russian Propaganda Domains in Major Disinformation Crackdown [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 32 internet domains used by a pro-Russian propaganda operation called Doppelganger as part of a sweeping set of actions. Accusing the Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaign of violating U.S. money laundering and criminal trademark laws, the agency called out companies Social Design…
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Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Smart Licensing Utility Ionut Arghire
Cisco has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including two critical-severity flaws in Smart Licensing Utility. The post Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Smart Licensing Utility appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Two Nigerians Sentenced to Prison in US for BEC Fraud Ionut Arghire
Franklin Ifeanyichukwu Okwonna and Ebuka Raphael Umeti were sentenced to prison in the US for business email compromise (BEC) fraud. The post Two Nigerians Sentenced to Prison in US for BEC Fraud appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Microchip Technology Confirms Personal Information Stolen in Ransomware Attack Ionut Arghire
Microchip Technology says employee contact information and other types of data was stolen in an August ransomware attack. The post Microchip Technology Confirms Personal Information Stolen in Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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How Do You Know When AI is Powerful Enough to be Dangerous? Regulators Try to Do the Math Associated Press
An AI model trained on 10 to the 26th floating-point operations per second must now be reported to the U.S. government and could soon trigger even stricter requirements in California. The post How Do You Know When AI is Powerful Enough to be Dangerous? Regulators Try to Do the Math appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read…