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Pirated Microsoft Office copy caused utility firm breach
A Ukrainian utility company was breached after installing a pirated version of Microsoft Office downloaded from a torrent website.
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Business operations disrupted at Western Digital following network security incident
Computer drive and data storage device manufacturer Western Digital is investigating a network security incident from last week that partly shut down its business, including its MyCloud storage platform, leaving many users in the dark and questioning if their data is safe.
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Feds seize $112m from CryptoRom swindlers
Scammers allegedly used the seized accounts to launder funds acquired via cryptocurrency confidence scams, known as “CryptoRom” or “pig butchering.”
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Australia latest to ban TikTok on government phones
Australia has joined the growing list of Western nations limiting the use of TikTok among government employees over security.
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Attackers start leaking Procter & Gamble data
Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) supposedly commercial data was posted on a dark-web blog that cybercriminals use to publicize and blackmail victims.
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Twitter source code explained
Twitter has officially posted parts of its source code in two main repositories on the code-sharing platform GitHub. The question is, what exactly is being revealed in the cache, and will the move end up being a win for both users and the company? Let's find out.
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Snatch ransom gang claims City of Modesto
Snatch has taken credit for a previous ransomware attack on the California City of Modesto that forced police to patrol the streets using handheld radios.
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Vice Society nabs Lewis & Clark College as latest ransomware victim
The Vice Society ransomware gang claims its latest victim, the prestigious Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Now, Lewis & Clark officials say they refuse to pay the gang's ransom demands.
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US court forces GitHub to reveal Twitter's source code leaker
Twitter has obtained a subpoena forcing GitHub to reveal the user allegedly responsible for posting “variable excerpts” of leaked Twitter source code on the GitHub community site.
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Beware: infected 3CX desktop app spread by North Korean hackers
A popular voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) software, 3CX, is being abused by attackers to spread a malicious payload. A North Korean threat actor is suspected to be behind the supply-chain attack.
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UK watchdog raises alarm as crooks steal WhatsApp accounts
Action Fraud, the UK’s national cybercrime reporting center, urges users to add an extra layer of protection to WhatApp accounts.
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Real or fake? Every third American fooled by AI images
An experiment has shown that 35% of Americans could not tell photographs of famous landmarks from images generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
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Pro-Kremlin hackers strike French parliament
NoName057(16), an anti-Ukrainian hacktivist collective, has brought down the website of the French National Assembly for several hours to send a message to French President Emmanuel Macron.
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BMW France claimed as Play ransomware victim
BMW France has been named on a dark-web blog that crooks use to publicize their latest victims. The company hasn’t confirmed the attack so far.
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LockBit ransomware gang infrastructure reported down
A ransomware-monitoring website reported that the infamous LockBit gang might have been taken offline - now, it looks as if the incident was a false alarm.
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ChatGPT phishing emails could weaponize realism
OpenAI’s large-language model (LLM) ChatGPT has come under the spotlight of Europol, the pan-European policing body.
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TikTok a strategic challenge for US, official says – but where’s the evidence?
TikTok represents a strategic issue rather than an immediate tactical threat to the US, the head of the National Security Agency's cybersecurity directorate said. However, some experts question the evidence behind concerns over the China-owned app.
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UScellular breach: new details revealed
UScellular has revealed new details about the January data breach that resulted in thousands of customers' personal data being offered up for free on the dark web.
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Crown Resorts approached by crooks exploiting GoAnywhere bug
Crown Resorts, Australia’s largest gaming and entertainment company, has been contacted by a ransomware gang that claims to be exploiting Fortra’s GoAnywhere vulnerability.
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ChatGPT leaks user credit card details
Open AI said a small percentage of ChatGPT Plus users may have had their payment information leaked during Monday's ChatGPT outage.
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