Cybercriminals are extorting some patients and threatening them with swatting in the wake of a recent cyberattack on a Seattle cancer center. The incident, stemming from a Citrix Bleed exploit, has triggered multiple lawsuits and affected the personal data of at least 1 million people.
Criminals have built highly successful business models by hacking into a wide range of organizations at will. University professor John Walker warned that the world is witnessing the unintended consequences of our collective inability to secure assets - kinetic threats to global stability.
A new cryptomining campaign uses a quirkily customized Mirai botnet to spread cryptomining malware designed to hide the digital wallet that collects the ill-gotten gains. Security researchers at Akamai dubbed the Mirai variation NoaBot when it first appeared in early 2023.
Financial services giant Fidelity National Financial has confirmed that a November 2023 hack attack compromised personal information pertaining to 1.3 million customers of its LoanCare subsidiary. FNF took multiple systems offline when responding to the attack, disrupting some homebuyers.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a $14 billion acquisition deal with networking equipment maker Juniper Networks and is touting the deal as a way to position the Silicon Valley stalwart for the burgeoning artificial intelligence market. The transaction values Juniper at $40 per share.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it is probing the "compromise" of its X - formerly known as Twitter - social media accounts after a hacker broadcast a fake post claiming the agency had approved spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which sent the value of bitcoin rocketing.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI acknowledged that it would be "impossible" to develop generative artificial intelligence systems without using copyrighted material. The company defended its use of copyrighted material, stating that current copyright law does not forbid training data.
California privileged access management vendor Delinea announced Tuesday its acquisition of Israeli startup Authomize in a bid to extend its reach in the growing identity market. Delinea will incorporate Authomize cross-cloud identity capabilities into its access management platform.
Fallout is mounting, and new developments are emerging in several high-profile health data hacks. Data breaches reported in recent weeks and months at a medical transcription vendor, a hospital chain and a law firm are affecting a growing list of clients and individuals - and triggering lawsuits.
Researchers found a path traversal vulnerability in Kyocera's Device Manager product, which is used for overseeing large printer fleets in mid- to large-sized enterprises. Attackers could exploit the flaw to obtain NTLM hashes by changing the location of a backup database.
As the use of application programming interfaces to connect software components continues to surge, many organizations lack visibility into precisely how many APIs they're operating, if those APIs are secured or who's meant to have access to them, researchers warn.
Alex Zeltcer, CEO and co-founder at nSure.ai, believes more companies are using AI and gen AI to create synthetic data that will be used to identify fraudulent groups who target online shoppers and gamers. He also observes social engineering at scale, perpetrated by machines, to conduct fraud.
A federally funded health center that provides services to underserved communities in New York has been fined up to $450,000 and must invest $1.2 million in improving its data security, under a settlement with state regulators involving a 2021 ransomware attack that affected about 261,000 people.
Non-bank mortgage lending giant LoanDepot is warning customers and investors that hackers have infiltrated its network, gained unauthorized access to information and encrypted data, leading to it taking numerous systems offline while it probes the attack.
In a solicitation for synthetic data generators, the U.S. federal government is looking for a machine that can generate fake data for real-world scenarios, such as identifying cybersecurity threats. Synthetic data can boost the accuracy of machine learning models or be used to test systems.
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