Hackers Can Use the Sound of Swiping to Steal Your Fingerprints
Nowadays, fingerprints are one of the most popular forms of personal identification, whether it’s unlocking your phone, approving online payments, access control, and many...
Several Countries Join Forces to Smash the World’s Most Dangerous Cybergang
UK and US law enforcement led an international operation, successfully disrupting the Russian-linked ransomware specialist LockBit, one of the most harmful cybercrime groups in...
Criminals Break into Smart Homes by Jamming Wireless Security
A series of robberies in Minneapolis led police to believe that burglars are using WiFi jammers to block off security system signals from reaching...
Russian Worldwide Espionage Botnet Caught and Disrupted
The US Department of Justice claims to have taken down a global botnet controlled by GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency. The botnet reportedly consisted...
Cybergang DarkGate Uses CAPTCHA to Spread Malware
HP Wolf Security’s latest threat insights disclosure put a spotlight on DarkGate – a group of web-based criminals using legal advertising tools to enhance...
Cyberattack Disables Hospital for Days
Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago has been disabled by a cyberattack for over a week, blocking doctors and nurses from accessing digital patient records, and...
Microsoft Claims Adversary Countries are Using Generative AI For Cyber Operations
Microsoft claims US adversaries like Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China are beginning to use generative AI to organize offensive cyber operations.
The tech giant...
Monitoring Online Terror with AI
Social media platforms on the internet are constantly flooded with huge amounts of content, and this vast ocean of material needs to be constantly...
Cybercriminals Create Malicious AI Chatbots
Artificial intelligence tools for the general public (ChatGPT, Bard, Dall-E) are being widely used for many everyday tasks, but users with malicious intentions can...
AI-Voice Robocalls Declared Illegal in the US
US regulators declared last week that scam "robocalls" made using voices created with artificial intelligence are now illegal.
This phenomenon gained attention last month after...
Hackers can Spy on Cameras Through Walls
Security cameras are our first line of defense in many fields of life, from our homes to the bank. But what if they aren't...
Learning App Data Leaks – Exposing Millions
A mere misconfigured database has exposed more than two million user records on LectureNotes Learning App, a platform for sharing class notes.
Back in December...
68% Increase of Ransomware Attacks In 2023
The rise of ransomware-as-a-service gangs has brought with it a surge of 68% in known ransomware attacks last year, a record level, according to...
Can Hackers Hijack Flights?
Flysmart+ is an iOS app for pilots to calculate aircraft takeoff performance, weight, and balance, developed by the Airbus subsidiary Navblue. It was recently...
Higher Cyber Defense Leads to Higher Ransoms
Study finds that businesses with cybersecurity insurance face significantly higher ransom payments compared to businesses that are not insured.
According to Dutch victim data, the...
Cybersecurity in the Workplace
Charles Harry is a former National Security Agency cyberwarfare expert and director of the University of Maryland's Center for Governance of Technology and Systems,...
Deep Fakes and Identity Decentralization
The growing trend of AI-generated content and deep fakes is making us lose our trust in the internet. Can identity decentralization be the solution?...
Countering Smartphone ‘Account Takeover’ Attacks
Account takeover attacks consist of a hacker gaining unauthorized access to online accounts. Computer science researchers developed a new way to identify security weaknesses...
Microsoft Suffers Severe Attack by Russian Cyberespionage Group
Microsoft was attacked by the Russian hacking group Midnight Blizzard, which reportedly broke into its corporate networks on January 12 and stole some sensitive...
An Innovative Solution to Protect ChatGPT from Jailbreak Attacks
Large language models (known as LLMs) are deep learning-based models that are trained to generate, summarize, translate, and process written texts. While such models...
Attackers Impersonate Security Researchers, Attempt Extortion
Multiple extortion attempts were conducted by threat actors who posed as legitimate security researchers and promised to hack into the infrastructure of original ransomware...
Can a Data Leak Expose an Entire Population?
Researchers found records containing the private data of hundreds of millions of Brazilian citizens, fully accessible online on Elasticsearch, available to threat actors, and...
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