The private equity firm said attackers broke into some of its cloud platforms during a five-day period in early July, compromising sensitive personal data.
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Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Greg Casar want a GAO probe on the government’s use of spyware and other sophisticated hacking tools and authorities.
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Kyle Spitze led an offshoot of the violent extremist collective and victimized dozens of girls, coercing them to degrade themselves under threats of doxing and swatting.
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The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act has won a big House vote and could be on the fast track in the Senate — and supporters say it could help fight cybercrime.
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The designation would unlock a range of federal services, tools and resources for an industry that policymakers view as increasingly tied to national and economic security.
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The agencies said the hackers are taking aim at Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers in what could be a first.
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After her prison sentence for felony election-related crimes was commuted, Peters is poised to once again administer critical election duties.
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The data theft extortion group likely compromised a critical vulnerability affecting PTC’s product lifecycle management software in June, a month before it sent threatening emails to victims.
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The superseding indictment adds defendants and allegations against the Iranian firm accused of a massive cybertheft campaign against foreign universities and others.
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The updated warning from the FBI, CISA and HHS draws on a year’s worth of investigations to detail how the group gains initial access and what it does afterward.
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BlackFile’s four affiliate groups are still targeting victims, including medical technology organizations. Several potential victims received new extortion demands last week, according to Google.
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In a post-mortem, the frontier AI testing company said internet access for models is necessary to fully test out their cybersecurity capabilities.
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The “philosophical shift” that the memo authorizes raises legal, practical and moral questions, experts say.
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Cameron Curry stole corporate data and employee information, which he used to threaten the company as his six-month contract gig came to a close. He ultimately extorted the company for $7,540.92.
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Oligo Security uncovered evidence of a long operational history, including multiple previous attacks it traced to the same attacker infrastructure and tools.
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AI chatbots are avoiding some of the obvious errors that plagued earlier models, but they still fall short giving voters the full picture compared to state and local sources.
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The Trump administration executive order on artificial intelligence tried to strike the balance between responsible use, security and mutual benefit, all with an eye toward not making it regulatory in nature, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Tuesday. “Everyone is working towards the same goal in terms of protecting the country and securing our systems, […]
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Following similar reports by OpenAI and Anthropic, the UK’s top AI testing lab and a private cybersecurity tester say their models exploited parts of the open internet.
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Researchers from multiple security firms observed a variant of Mini Shai-Hulud, self-replicating malware linked to TeamPCP, in all the affected packages.
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The five senators said the administration has alternated between being too passive and overstepping, and China stands to benefit as a result.
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