Artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling more than half of cybercrime in Africa, enabling criminals to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks as financial losses continue to mount, a new study found. “Cybercrime has emerged as one of the most significant criminal threats to the region,” Neal Jetton, director of Interpol’s Cybercrime Directorate, said in a report...Read More
Paradoxically, physical security companies are not free from being victims of cybercriminals either. Sometimes, hackers demonstrate that even they are not one hundred percent safe. Brinks Home, an American company that offers home surveillance systems backed by an alarm center, reportedly suffered a ransomware attack by the infamous extortion group ShinyHunters, who have added it...Read More
A cyberattack on Poland’s largest convenience store chain, Żabka, has exposed internal company systems after attackers allegedly stole corporate data through a third-party contractor’s account. The company confirmed on Tuesday that it detected unauthorized access to technical systems used to communicate with its franchise network late last week and immediately blocked the intrusion. According to...Read More
That’s because the ability to write messages is tied to a quirky Bitcoin feature called OP_RETURN, which lets anyone attach a small text string to a transaction. The text gets permanently timestamped into the blockchain alongside the transfer of money. The function exists for technical purposes; mainly, developers use it to timestamp documents or embed...Read More
//php echo do_shortcode(‘[responsivevoice_button voice=”US English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”]’) ?> Cybersecurity is one of the most challenging issues in the automotive industry, despite sustained efforts to develop and deploy comprehensive solutions. New categories of cyberattacks will emerge alongside new vulnerabilities as software-defined vehicles (SDVs) add new software platforms. Artificial intelligence expands cyberattack methods and capabilities...Read More
“Vamos a Spania” (Let’s go to Spain) became a viral slogan on social media last week. There were 1.3 million views of a video explaining in darija —Moroccan Arabic dialect— the recent Spanish Supreme Court decision limiting the government’s ability to push migrants back at the border. Messaging groups circulated the following statement: “Anyone who...Read More
Kevin Horvat, Unsplash Imagine this scenario. It’s early evening in a small city in central Turkey. An Iranian woman in her mid-20s walks to the corner café. Headphones in, she listens to Radiohead’s 2 + 2 = 5. She hasn’t set foot in Iran since she left, nor is she breaking any laws in Turkey....Read More
CHICAGO — When Damarion Spann, 18, saw an Instagram flier calling for a massive gathering on a beach near downtown Chicago, he immediately wanted to go. Thousands of others joined him that night on the sand, blasting music and dancing. The cultural trend of so-called teen takeovers has popped up across the U.S. in recent...Read More
TP-Link has patched 15 vulnerabilities in the zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) mechanism of its Omada network devices that could be chained with previously disclosed flaws to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The flaws were uncovered by Forescout’s Vedere Labs researchers, who published the full details at the Black Hat USA security conference earlier today. Omada is TP-Link’s business...Read More
TP-Link has patched 15 vulnerabilities in the zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) mechanism of its Omada network devices that could be chained with previously disclosed flaws to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The flaws were uncovered by Forescout’s Vedere Labs researchers, who published the full details at the Black Hat USA security conference earlier today. Omada is TP-Link’s business...Read More
