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ICBC confirms ransomware attack on USA subsidiary
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services (ICBC FS), a subsidiary of China’s largest lender ICBC, has confirmed that it suffered from a disruptive ransomware attack.
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McLaren Health Care breach exposes medical data of 2.3M+ individuals
McLaren Health Care, a healthcare provider in Michigan, USA, has suffered a ransomware attack with perpetrators getting their hands on sensitive data such as medical records.
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ICBC, China’s largest bank, hit with ransomware
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the largest bank in the country, was hit with a ransomware attack. The attack has also disrupted the US Treasury market.
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Signal tests usernames to avoid using phone numbers
Signal, the privacy-oriented messenger, has launched a limited public test of connecting with usernames instead of phone numbers to communicate with other users.
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OpenAI hints at DDoS attack behind ChatGPT outage
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its API are facing “periodic outages” that resemble distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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Meta mandates AI disclosures for political ads
Starting next year, Meta will implement a new policy requiring advertisers to disclose when digital tools like AI were used to create or alter political and social ads.
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US lawmakers and intelligence community clash over foreign surveillance
The US intelligence community seeks to reauthorize a controversial surveillance program known as 702 without any substantial changes. But some lawmakers are pushing for reforms.
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Russians extradited on $48M cyber fraud charges
Three Russian men have been extradited to the US from Morocco, Germany, and Romania to face charges of using stolen personally identifying information (PII) to steal $48 million.
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Australia's second largest Telco provider Optus down for millions
Optus, one of Australia's top telecommunications service providers, is down for millions of customers, interrupting Melbourne train service and phone lines at some hospitals.
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Musk’s AI model Grok an easy target for malicious actors
Security researchers say that while Grok, an AI model released by Elon Musk’s startup xAI, is interesting, it can cause harm and be misused by malicious actors.
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Major Japanese defense contractor breached by ALPHV
Japan Aviation Electronics (JAE), a multi-billion tech manufacturer, has confirmed that it’s been hit with a cyberattack that impacted its workflow.
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Sun Life third-party breach exposes 212K individuals
Sun Life data was exposed after MOVEit hackers breached Pension Benefit Information (PBI), jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of individuals.
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Meta bars political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools
Meta is barring political campaigns and advertisers in other regulated industries from using its new generative AI advertising products, denying access to tools that lawmakers have warned could turbo-charge the spread of election misinformation.
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UnitedHealth’s Crystal Run impacted by ongoing cyber incident
Crystal Run Healthcare, a New York-based multi-specialty medical group, continues to grapple with a “system interruption” that has impacted its network systems since last week.
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Internet outages cost $43 billion a day
Internet outages disrupt countless sectors, underscoring the importance of stable internet access as a basic human right.
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Boeing breach: LockBit leaks 50 GB of data
The Boeing Company, a jetliner manufacturer and US defense contractor, had the company’s data leaked by the LockBit ransomware gang. So far, around 50 gigabytes of compressed data was uploaded LockBit's dark web blog.
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Ace Hardware struggles to restore systems after ‘malicious’ cyberattack
Home improvement retail giant Ace Hardware is struggling to recover multiple online supported business operations nearly a week after its IT systems were hit by a ‘malicious’ cyberattack.
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Henry Schein ransom negotiations fail, attacks claimed by ALPHV/BlackCat
Henry Schein, a major global distributor of healthcare products, is undergoing what appears to be intense negotiations after being breached by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransom group in October. The gang says it will begin publishing portions of its trove by Friday.
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Infosys US unit hit by cyber event
India's IT service provider Infosys said its US subsidiary, Infosys McCamish Systems, was impacted by a "cybersecurity event" that disrupted its operations.
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Insurance broker falls for phishing attack, leaves 80K people affected
The Hilb Group was hit by a phishing attack, and employee mistakes caused its clients’ financial data to be leaked.
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