WASHINGTON (TNND) — More than 100 artificial intelligence and cybersecurity companies are warning the federal government that increasingly powerful AI systems could dramatically expand the scale and sophistication of cyberattacks in the coming months, potentially putting critical infrastructure, businesses and national security at greater risk. The joint warning, signed by companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon...Read More
The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has confirmed suffering a cybersecurity incident after the Qilin ransomware group claimed to have targeted the agency. In a statement on its website, ATF said the incident affected a standalone system, which was disconnected after the intrusion was discovered. “The impacted system operates separately from...Read More
A ransomware group said on Friday it was putting up for auction a trove of data it stole from Berlin state agencies, and city officials refused to pay. The Rhysida group, which researchers say operates from Russia or Eastern Europe, said on its website it took 5.79 terabytes of data including 46,500 contracts as well...Read More
Police inspector Ravi KB who died in the accident Bengaluru: An inspector attached to south-east cybercrime police station died while three of his team members sustained injuries when a private bus they were travelling in overturned and crashed on a bridge on Bhopal bypass in Biaora city of Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district early Friday morning.The...Read More
Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MLC Mirza Rehmath Baigh approached the cybercrime police after unidentified persons allegedly made internet-based calls and attempted to extort money from him.Baigh told the police that he recently received calls in which the caller threatened to defame him by circulating deepfake videos unless he agreed to pay money.The MLC...Read More
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 Override is here and, in a first for the battle royale, you can input Admin Panel codes for free rewards! This IGN guide lists all of the 22 Fortnite Lobby Hack codes and explains how to redeem them and what you unlock for doing so, including rare Sprites, XP, and...Read More
More than 100 leading technology, cybersecurity, financial and infrastructure companies are calling for a global surge in cyber defense, warning that increasingly capable AI models will make cyberattacks more widespread and sophisticated in the coming months. A coalition of more than 100 companies, including leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta and Fortinet,...Read More
The attack started quietly. A handful of hijacked open-source packages. A few stolen API keys. Security teams filed the reports and moved on. That was March. By June, the campaign had stolen 294,842 secrets from 6,943 developer machines, partnered with a ransomware group to monetize the access, open-sourced its own attack toolkit with a $1,000...Read More
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced on the 27th that it had confirmed a breach by a ransomware hacking group into a standalone system that stored information related to the agency’s investigative targets. The U.S. Department of Justice has designated the matter as a “major incident” under federal guidelines and...Read More
An Ontario resident lost $50,000 in an online scam. The resident, from Fergus, north of Guelph, contacted the Ontario Provincial Police on Aug. 25. The OPP said the resident received communications from people claiming to be representatives of a cryptocurrency exchange platform. The representatives told the victim that there was a security concern related to...Read More
