Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your Inbox Across Asia-Pacific (APAC), cybercrime syndicates are increasingly employing decentralization strategies to evade detection and disruption, according to a new report by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), a regional inter-governmental body based in Australia. This comes in response to the...Read More
A Russian hacking group active since April has been using SpaceX’s AI coding assistant, Cursor, to conduct cyberattacks. Reuters reported that the group used Cursor to break into a Belgian chemical company. The wire service reported that the group had also launched successful attacks against at least six other firms. Gambit Security identified the hacking...Read More
Shares of Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) soared on Thursday after the identity management leader delivered strong quarterly profits. Image source: Getty Images. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again.In 2009, a “Double Down” signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same “Total Conviction” signal is...Read More
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Virginia will receive $364 million as part of a nationwide settlement with Meta, resolving claims that the company hid the addictive design of its apps and misled the public about the risks to children, according to Attorney General Jay Jones. The investigation began in 2021 and now resolves claims from nearly...Read More
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – A video showing a 10-year-old girl surrounded and beaten by a group of kids she didn’t know is circulating on social media. The girl’s mother is speaking out after the Sunday incident near the Honorable Myron Duhart Park. The mother went downtown to discuss filing charges against the kids involved. Police...Read More
By AJ Vicens Aug 27 (Reuters) – A ransomware group gained access to a computer system containing information about targets of investigations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a spokesperson for the U.S. agency said after a hacking group publicized a claimed breach on Wednesday. Tanya Roman, a spokesperson for the agency,...Read More
Last month, OpenAI revealed that its agents had hacked open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face. Now, a pair of reports—one by OpenAI and the other from independent researchers—offers new details into the cybersecurity incident. For example, independent investigators METR and Redwood Research, which had been brought in by OpenAI, found that the breach wasn’t...Read More
Researchers from the cybersecurity company Bitdefender have detected two phishing campaigns targeting both hotels and other types of tourist accommodations, where instead of trying to scam travelers, the establishments themselves are attacked. This finding means that threats focused on the hotel sector have changed course. In the past, scams on WhatsApp impersonating hotels to deceive...Read More
Newswise — Following Meta’s proposed settlement of up to $17.1 billion with states over allegations that its platforms harmed young people, Cedars-Sinai Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Neurosciences psychiatrist Nathalie Murphy, MD, and addiction psychiatry expert Itai Danovitch, MD, are available for interviews. Danovitch and Murphy can discuss what science has found out about compulsive social...Read More
In this interview with Help Net Security, Prasad Tharippala, Field CISO at Versa, explains what organizations miss when they run open-weight models in house. He covers the hidden costs of GPU infrastructure, licensing review and staffing, and why hardening and incident response become the buyer’s job. He walks through red-teaming AI agents, what counts as...Read More
