Budget season is upon us, and everyone in your organization is vying for their slice of the pie. Every year, every department has a pet project that they present as absolutely essential to profitability, business continuity, and quite possibly the future of humanity itself. And no doubt that some of these actually may be mission critical. But as cybersecurity professionals, we understand that
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Unauthorized activity detected on the Washington courts network, which led to websites and other services becoming unavailable.
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INTERPOL on Tuesday said it took down more than 22,000 malicious servers linked to various cyber threats as part of a global operation.
Dubbed Operation Synergia II, the coordinated effort ran from April 1 to August 31, 2024, targeting phishing, ransomware, and information stealer infrastructure.
“Of the approximately 30,000 suspicious IP addresses identified, 76 per cent were taken down and 59
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South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users.
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Georgia Tech researchers have developed PLCHound, an algorithm that uses AI to improve the identification of internet-exposed ICS.
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Meta has been fined 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) by South Korea’s data privacy watchdog for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with advertisers without their consent.
The country’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Meta gathered information such as
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Google’s cloud division has announced that it will enforce mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users by the end of 2025 as part of its efforts to improve account security.
“We will be implementing mandatory MFA for Google Cloud in a phased approach that will roll out to all users worldwide during 2025,” Mayank Upadhyay, vice president of engineering and distinguished engineer at
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The global operation was intended to root out malicious IP addresses used for phishing, ransomware and infostealer malware.
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The CRON#TRAP campaign involves a novel technique for executing malicious commands on a compromised system.
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The suspect, tracked as UNC5537, allegedly bragged about hacking several Snowflake victims on Telegram, drawing attention to himself.
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