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Report: Trump campaign hack still ongoing
The Donald Trump presidential campaign has been aware of a hack since mid-August. But the penetration by malign foreign actors is apparently continuing.
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Major Russian pirate library Flibusta shuts down as founder battles terminal cancer
The free pirate library Flibusta, outlawed and blocked in Russia, has closed down as its creator fights an aggressive brain tumor.
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MoneyGram cyberattack leads to days-long outage, unprocessed payments
MoneyGram, a US financial payment services firm, announced on Tuesday that it is making some progress in restoring operations after a full-blown cyberattack incapacitated its networks over the weekend.
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'We are deeply sorry' CrowdStrike VP testifies to US lawmakers over outage
CrowdStrike’s Head of Intelligence apologized to a US House Homeland Security Committee in Washington on Tuesday, taking the blame for the company’s release of a faulty software update that led to the worldwide failure of millions of Microsoft Windows-run computers in July.
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Riot Games increases prices by up to 76%: which regions will be most affected?
Popular game developer Riot Games has announced changes in its virtual currency pricing. While many regions are affected, Ukraine is hit hardest with a 76% increase in prices across major games like League of Legends and Valorant.
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Russia, Iran, China use AI to boost online campaigns against Kamala Harris
Russia, Iran, and China are also participating in the US presidential election. American intelligence officials say they’re using AI tools to sway the population ahead of November’s vote.
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AI makes ethical hackers 40% more effective, twice as productive, EC-Council claims
Cyber Pros need to turbocharge their skills with AI if they want to stay competitive. A certification company says that AI doubles an ethical hacker’s productivity and increases their effectiveness by 40%.
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Crooks, beware: Telegram will now hand over your data to authorities if asked
Pavel Durov seems to have had enough trouble with the law. The Telegram CEO, who was detained in France in late August, has said that his platform will now provide authorities with some user data if they request it legally.
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Kaspersky users shocked by automatic antivirus replacement without explicit permission
Kaspersky users in the US woke up thinking that their system had been compromised, as they found UltraAV antivirus and UltraVPN automatically installed on their systems without warning.
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Ukraine sees shift in Russian hacking tactics: more widespread, less severe
After failing to induce the desired panic among civilians or achieve a battlefield impact, Russian threat actors in Ukraine have pivoted to targeting any systems related to war and politics and maintaining a low profile.
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After summer leak, Disney is doing away with Slack for good
It was to be expected that Disney would take action to secure its system after a hacktivist group stole over one terabyte of data from the company’s internal messaging channels. And the firm is doing just that by ditching Slack.
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New FTC report slams social media firms for harmful data use
YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, and other similar tech companies are failing to protect users from privacy intrusion and safeguard children and teens on their platforms, says the US Federal Trade Commission.
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“That’s not manly” Russian dictator outraged as Musk ‘remotely disables' his Cybertruck
Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Russia's Chechen Republic, who was seen driving a Cybertruck with a machine gun, has blamed Elon Musk for 'deactivating' his vehicle.
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Iran tried to hand stolen Trump campaign data to Biden's campaign, agencies say
In an effort to sow discord and shape the outcome of the US elections, an Iranian malicious cyber actor tried multiple times to tempt US President Joe Biden’s campaign with non-public material stolen from former President Trump’s campaign, three US agencies said in a joint statement.
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Pagers used in Hezbollah attacks: who still uses them and why?
Members of Hezbollah, a militant organization operating in Lebanon, used old-school pagers to avoid being tracked down and targeted by Israeli intelligence. Who else uses pagers and why?
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Is Tor really safe? Law enforcement surveilling and unmasking users on the dark web
Law enforcement in Germany has repeatedly and successfully deanonymized selected Tor users on the dark net using a so-called “timing analysis,” according to a new investigation.
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Musk's X back up in Brazil thanks to Cloudflare, but will it last?
Elon Musk’s X is back up for a majority of users in Brazil on Wednesday after a Cloudflare network update circumvented Brazil’s Supreme Court order to block the social media platform.
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Apple and TSMC start production of previous iPhone chips in the US
Fab 21, a recently opened TSMC 5-nanometer semiconductor fab near Phoenix, Arizona, has started manufacturing chips for Apple.
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Tough new AI laws enter into force in California: what are they?
California governor Gavin Newson has signed some of America’s toughest laws yet regulating AI, cracking down on both dangerous deepfakes that could influence elections and the use of the technology in Hollywood.
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AT&T ordered to pay $13M settlement in latest setback for company
After allegedly paying nearly $400,000 for a ransom in May, AT&T is reaching for its wallet again. This time, it’s to settle a cloud breach investigation led by the FCC.
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