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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and trends. Z.ai faced backlash for security flaws in its ZCode coding assistant, prompting the temporary disabling of certain features. In the UK, two individuals were arrested following the disruption of the "EvilTokens" AI chatbot, which facilitated cybercriminals in account compromise for a subscription fee. Researchers revealed that stolen passwords pose significant risks to U.S. water providers, exposing critical infrastructure to potential cyberattacks. Additionally, a wave of AI-driven threats is emerging, with reports indicating that AI is increasingly aiding cybercriminals while defenders struggle to keep pace. Lastly, vulnerabilities in Zyxel switches and recent attacks exploiting deepfake technology underscore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity risks.
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The University of Washington Medical Center (UW Medicine) was breached in October, with data of up to 90,000 patients of the Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center affected. No medical data was stolen, but SSNs may have been lost.
A prominent remote administration tool (RAT) known as Blackshades is seeing an uptick lately, despite one of its authors having been arrested last year.
Mois de la sécurité, Assises de la sécurité, révélations Snowden sur les pratiques de la NSA, failles Internet Explorer, projet de loi ANSSI : petit tour des actus de l’automne…
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One side-effect of the Snowden revelations and rumors and accusations of government-inspired backdoors in mainstream software products is increased interest in open source software (OSS). But while OSS comes with more inherent trust, it is often used with less security.
While it is possible – to some degree – to protect a physical cable, wireless communications are out in the open, ready to be plucked from the air. Encryption has been considered the only way to protect wireless data – until now.
It was clear last week that the European Parliament's demand for legal redress in US courts for Europeans whose rights may have been infringed by US surveillance would be a sticking point in negotiations between the EU and US over data sharing. Now commissioner Reding has made it clear that her conc...
Historically, AutoCAD malware is very rare, although not completely unheard of – there was an attack last year that targeted users mostly in Peru, for example. A new bug is now making the rounds, targeting these graphics and engineering platforms with exploits targeting old vulnerabilities. The goal...
Door-busters, Black Friday, Cyber Monday: According to Visa, 140 million people plan to shop over Thanksgiving weekend this year – a significant decrease from the 247 million who did so in 2012. Nonetheless, 37% of Americans said they will shop on Black Friday, while 34% plan to shop on Cyber Monday...
Banking trojans continue to be the scourge of the web, with Zeus, Citadel, Ramnit, Spyeye and others continuing to infect machines on a widespread basis. But a new offering has been uncovered in a Russian cybercrime forum, a malware variant that, until now, has been working incognito – the i2Ninja m...
Last week, German security company Vulnerability Lab published details on the Full Disclosure mailing list about a series of bugs it had discovered in PayPal. These were a persistent payment mail encoding vulnerability; a persistent search vulnerability; a persistent POST inject vulnerability; and a...
New revelations published by the Dutch newspaper NRC indicate that the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) may have infected more than 50,000 computer networks around the world with spyware that it can turn on and off at will remotely.
Racing Post, a British horse racing, greyhound racing and betting newspaper, announced Sunday that its website had been breached and usernames, first and last names, passwords, email addresses and date of birth have been stolen.
A methodical brute-force password-guessing attack on web hosting development site GitHub has resulted in a mass password reset and the revocation of various security authorizations.
Trojan backdoors have traditionally attacked desktop and now mobile computers. In recent months, however, attackers have started to target servers. Two typical purposes are to use server bandwidth for powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaigns and to use the server to compromise web pag...
The ongoing cyber-attacks by Anonymous on US government websites are being made possible thanks to an exploit for Adobe ColdFusion.
A new vulnerability in Lenovo network storage devices has been uncovered. The flaw can potentially be exploited by an attacker to gain unauthorized remote read-only access to network-attached storage (NAS) shares.
This year has seen a few high-profile wins for the good guys in the form of botnet takedowns, especially those by Microsoft and Symantec earlier this year. But at least one security researcher is warning against rejoicing too heartily: the takedowns, he said, do little to make an impact on web safet...
Last Thursday the Inj3ct0r Team hacking group claimed on Twitter, "Inj3ct0r Team hacked http://vBulletin.com and http://Macrumors.com." By Friday vBulletin admitted the breach, and on Monday it was reported that a zero-day vulnerability used against both MacRumors and vBulletin had been put on sale...
CryptoLocker, the ransomware menace that has been snowballing in profile of late, is stepping up its game even further. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is warning that its National Cyber Crime Unit are aware of a mass email spamming event that is affecting tens of millions of residents.
US public companies are more forthcoming with details regarding their cybersecurity risk profiles – and more transparency regarding cyber-risk and cyber-attacks is expected to drive greater adoption of cyber-insurance as a means of demonstrating better corporate risk management.