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Following claims by two ransomware groups, Yamaha confirms cyberattack
PRIVACY PRIVACY Yamaha Corporation, the world’s largest producer of musical equipment, has confirmed that has suffered a “cybersecurity incident” during which hackers gained unauthorised access to its systems, and stole data. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years
PRIVACY PRIVACY The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov, the former founder and CEO of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity firms. Sachkov, 37, has been detained for nearly two years under charges that the Kremlin has kept classified and hidden from public view, and he joins…
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Repeatable VEC Attacks Target Critical Infrastructure
PRIVACY PRIVACY Likelihood of a firm falling victim to a VEC attack rose from 45% in June 2022 to 70% in May 2023 Read More
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VMware Patches Vulnerability Exposing Admin Credentials
PRIVACY PRIVACY The issue arises from the logging of credentials in hex encoding in platform system audit logs Read More
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Group-IB Founder Sentenced in Russia to 14 Years for Treason
PRIVACY PRIVACY Reports said Ilya Sachkov was suspected of passing on state secrets Read More
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Dark Web Markets Offer New FraudGPT AI Tool
PRIVACY PRIVACY The tool can craft phishing emails, create undetectable malware and identify vulnerable sites Read More
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New Realst Mac malware, disguised as blockchain games, steals cryptocurrency wallets
PRIVACY PRIVACY Fake blockchain games, that are being actively promoted by cybercriminals on social media, are actually designed to infect the computers of unsuspecting Mac users with cryptocurrency-stealing malware. Read More
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Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios
PRIVACY PRIVACY Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Since then, TETRA has been used in products, including radios, sold by…
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Ransomware Attacks Skyrocket in Q2 2023
PRIVACY PRIVACY SonicWall’s report finds that ransomware rebounded in Q2 2023 following a major reduction in Q1 Read More
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Education Sector Has Highest Ransomware Victim Count
PRIVACY PRIVACY Extortionists know their targets have low tolerance for outages Read More