Yuliya Taba / iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Ransomware activity hit a year-to-date high of 894 victim organization listings in July. The Gentleman, new ransomware groups, and agentic AI are responsible. However, cybercriminal egos might be inflating the numbers. New NCC...Read More
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) — Registered cybercrime cases in Uzbekistan increased from 4,800 to more than 62,000 over the past five years, while the Central Bank of Uzbekistan is preparing to transition to risk-based supervision of bank cybersecurity. The figures and regulatory plans were disclosed by speakers during the “Trust at the Speed of AI: Cyber...Read More
Fifty-eight people linked to organised West African cybercrime groups have been arrested across 22 countries and six continents as part of an international operation targeting romance and investment scams. The operation, known as “Operation Jackal IV”, was coordinated by Interpol and also identified 263 suspects linked to the criminal networks. The agency said the crackdown...Read More
Meta Platforms (META) shares were muted in morning trade Wednesday after the company agreed to a proposed multistate settlement worth up to $17 billion to resolve allegations that Facebook and Instagram were designed to encourage compulsive use among children and teens and that Meta misled users and the public about the platforms’ safety. The settlement announced...Read More
PHILADELPHIA (AP/ KYW Newsradio) — Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, according to state attorneys general, who made the announcement Wednesday. California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey...Read More
In the race to add AI capabilities to their mobile apps, developers have opened up a new security weakness that puts their own wallets at risk. A new study led by Wake Forest undergraduate student Eric Gao analyzed 444 iOS applications. It found that 282 exposed credentials needed to access the developers’ large language model...Read More
A Russian hacker group calling themselves “Server Killers” has claimed to be behind three days of ongoing cyber attacks on various online public services in Norway. They further claimed that Norway’s recent renewal of support for Ukraine was behind their attack. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was back in Kyiv on Sunday, to renew...Read More
A controversial new cybersecurity decree promising massive salary bonuses was briefly published before state media removed their own coverage. The Latest: On Aug. 19, the government issued Decree 329, a regulation proposed by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) aimed at professionalizing Việt Nam’s cybersecurity force. The decree, which took effect immediately, stipulates that cybersecurity...Read More
The following is a guest article by Dataminr Large healthcare organizations face mounting cyber threats while managing complex IT environments that span electronic health records, connected medical devices, legacy systems and cloud applications. Security teams struggle with alert fatigue from fragmented monitoring tools and limited staff to investigate every signal. Finding the best threat intelligence...Read More
The settlement, filed in court Wednesday, calls for Meta to pay approximately 7% upfront with the remainder structured over time. As part of a proposed consent judgment, Meta must introduce daily usage limits and nighttime blocks for teenage users, stronger age-verification measures to keep children off its platforms, and expanded parental control tools. Meta denied...Read More
