Category: AI in news

Aug 02, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Hacking News In a historic prisoner exchange between Belarus, Germany, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, and the U.S., two Russian nationals serving time for cybercrime activities have been freed and repatriated to their country. This includes Roman Valerevich Seleznev and Vladislav Klyushin, who are part of a group of eight people…

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Aug 02, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Network Security Cybersecurity companies are warning about an uptick in the abuse of Clouflare’s TryCloudflare free service for malware delivery. The activity, documented by both eSentire and Proofpoint, entails the use of TryCloudflare to create a one-time tunnel that acts as a conduit to relay traffic from an attacker-controlled server…

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DNS hacks usually fall into obvious types, such as DNS poisoning (manipulating DNS records to redirect users), domain shadowing (adding malicious sub-domains to a DNS record), or CNAME attacks (hijacking lapsed sub-domains). Sitting Ducks turned out to be different, and had to do with weaknesses in the way domains are administered, or not administered. In…

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Twenty-four prisoners were freed today in an international prisoner swap between Russia and Western countries. Among the eight Russians repatriated were several convicted cybercriminals. In return, Russia has reportedly released 16 prisoners, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. Among the more notable Russian hackers released in the prisoner swap…

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Twenty-four prisoners were freed today in an international prisoner swap between Russia and Western countries. Among the eight Russians repatriated were five convicted cybercriminals. In return, Russia has reportedly released 16 prisoners, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. Among the more notable Russian hackers released in the prisoner swap…

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Humans still have something to say in the age of AI Beyond the failure of CrowdStrike and the systemic problems affecting the technology industry, the global computer blackout made it clear that, in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) everywhere, human beings are not expendable, and that the world is not ready to leave big…

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“The manufacturing, healthcare, and technology sectors were the top targets of ransomware attacks, while the energy sector experienced a 500% year-over-year spike as critical infrastructure and susceptibility to operational disruptions make it particularly attractive to cybercriminals,” the report said. “The energy sector experienced a 527.27% year-over-year increase in ransomware attacks, likely due to its critical…

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On Friday posts were published on the internet containing what appeared to be the personal information of Israeli Olympic athletes. As the Times of Israel reports, information including athletes’ names, phone numbers, addresses, passwords, family relationships, photographs, military status and blood test results were published on Telegram. The hackers also created a website and Twitter…

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The staggering sum of US $75 million has reportedly been paid to a ransomware gang in what is believed to be the largest known ransom payment made by a cyber attack victim since records began.  Researchers at Zscaler claim in a new report that the record-breaking figure was paid by an undisclosed Fortune 50 company…

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Aug 01, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence Over a million domains are susceptible to takeover by malicious actors by means of what has been called a Sitting Ducks attack. The powerful attack vector, which exploits weaknesses in the domain name system (DNS), is being exploited by over a dozen Russian-nexus cybercriminal actors to stealthily hijack…

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