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Ohio city severely disrupted by ransomware attack
Huber Heights in Ohio, USA, was hit with a cyberattack that’s expected to limit access to local services for at least a week. Another attack impacted a county in North Carolina.
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‘Denial of pleasure’ attack: FlipperZero targets adult toys
Researchers find that Flipper Zero can connect and control adult toys remotely by making them vibrate or stop working via a Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) broadcast.
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Denmark hit with largest cyberattack on record
Hackers potentially linked to Russia’s military intelligence carried out a series of highly coordinated cyberattacks on Danish energy infrastructure in the spring, a new report says.
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Major Canadian fintech Moneris claimed by Medusa ransomware
Moneris, a payment processing business used by Starbucks and IKEA, has been listed on Medusa ransomware’s dark web blog.
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Attackers claim Plume data breach
Plume, a smart WiFi services provider, was posted on a popular data leak forum, with attackers claiming that they’ve downloaded gigabytes of user data.
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Dragos cybersecurity claimed by ransomware cartel
Dragos, an industrial cybersecurity services provider, was listed on the ALPHV ransomware gang’s leak site, quoting a third-party breach.
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Australia ports operator back online after cyber incident
DP World Australia, one of the country's largest ports operators, said operations had resumed at all its facilities after a cybersecurity incident forced it to a halt for three days.
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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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