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CHICAGO (WLS) — A single attack brought a digital blackout to universities across the country. A former White House official says artificial intelligence was used in this attack. He says while the company paid to recover use of its system and for hackers to delete data they stole, pilfered personal information may still be circulating...Read More
The Dutch Financial Information and Investigation Service conducted raids at two of the country’s data centers and seized 800 servers belonging to the hosting companies WorkTitans and MIRhosting. Bloomberg reports. The seized web equipment was used by Russian hackers to carry out cyberattacks against government institutions and the banking sector in Europe. More on the...Read More
The cybersecurity community is blasting Microsoft for threatening legal action against a disgruntled researcher who’s been exposing Windows vulnerabilities outside the company’s normal disclosure process. The controversy deals with a researcher known as “Nightmare Eclipse,” who has published six unpatched “zero-day” flaws in recent weeks. This includes a proof-of-concept exploit for a Windows vulnerability known...Read More
The Colorado office responsible for overseeing the state’s cybersecurity and digital infrastructure announced sweeping layoffs and a major restructuring effort this week following years of blistering state audits that exposed serious security deficiencies. The Colorado Office of Information Technology said on Wednesday it is eliminating 173 positions, which is roughly 16% of its workforce. Leaders...Read More
Meta is being sued over alleged child safety violations. (Noah Berger / AP Photo) SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico state prosecutors are seeking fundamental changes to Meta’s social media apps and algorithms to safeguard children in the second phase of a landmark trial on allegations that platforms such as Instagram have created a public...Read More
AUSTIN, TX – A broad coalition of child safety advocates, policy organizations, and Texas nonprofits filed multiple amicus briefs urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reinstate Texas’ App Store Accountability Act and reverse an injunction blocking the law from taking effect. The briefs were filed in Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v....Read More
A Montgomery County man is facing charges for hiding cameras in a Fayette County home to produce sexual abuse material, according to Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday. Online court records show Adam Benjamin Arena, 46, is facing more than 150 charges, 110 of which are felonies. The felony charges include production and possession of child...Read More
Summary Payload is a Windows ransomware family that encrypts files with ChaCha20 and uses a per-file Curve25519 ECDH exchange, then appends the .payload extension to impacted data. The malware drops a RECOVER_payload.txt ransom note, creates its own log file, and applies several anti-forensic measures, including ETW patching, deletion of VSS shadow copies, clearing of event...Read More
Hackers posing as IT experts are showing up in person at law firms, the FBI has warned. In the past, the Silent Ransom Group (SRG), also known as Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and UNC3753, sent phishing emails purportedly charging small ‘subscription fees’. To cancel the fake subscription, the victim was instructed to call the threat...Read More
