> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical developments. Scammers are leveraging replies to unsolicited texts to confirm active phone numbers, increasing the risk of fraud. A significant cyberattack utilized 51 AI agents to compromise 429 WordPress sites and steal sensitive Ukrainian data in just over a minute. Additionally, low-cost Android phones are being shipped with pre-installed malware, turning them into tools for ad fraud and other malicious activities. Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, offering enhanced management tools for organizations, while VMware's patch management concerns indicate a growing need for better security tools. Lastly, Booz Allen's AI models successfully navigated all defined attack objectives in a controlled test, showcasing the evolving capabilities of AI in cybersecurity.
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Verizon has launched a website designed to collect and share information about data breach incidents that are reported by participating organizations.
An IT security researcher has reportedly released the source code that could allow a hacker to gain remote access to a Google Android smartphone across the internet.
Digital rights management (DRM) is fast becoming a normal security feature in a growing number of Far Eastern companies and, says Jason Sohn, deputy general manager with Korean DRM specialist Fasoo.com, the same thing is now happening here in the UK.
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) delivered the evening keynote during the SC Congress in mid-town Manhattan yesterday, as the member of the House Committee on Homeland Security told the audience that the US electric grid remains vulnerable to a near-certain cyber attack.
Hewlett-Packard is to pay $16.25m (ÂŁ10m) for alleged fraud, following an extensive investigation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Justice (DoJ).
People who use the internet may have greater protection from electronic eavesdroppers following a consultation on changes to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
Entrust, the identity security specialist, has teamed up with EDAPS, the Ukrainian consortium of high-tech firms, to develop a highly secure document identification system for Interpol, the international crime agency.
Forrester said that it has developed a “zero trust” model designed to make security ubiquitous through the network, not just at the perimeter.
Composer Roger Davidson was scammed out of millions of dollars after he brought his laptop into a computer repair shop in Westchester County, New York, in 2004 to get rid of a virus.
The fact that social networking portal has more than 500 million members attracts attacks like moths to a flame. Trend Micro's Rik Ferguson has seen an interesting new twist to phishing this week on the site.
Armed forces minister Nick Harvey is to expand on recent announcements on UK cyber defences in London today.
One of the websites operated by the Royal Navy was shut down yesterday, after a hacker called TinKode gained unauthorised access to the server using an SQL injection attack.
The latest monthly analysis of the malware landscape from Kaspersky Lab shows that the ZeuS trojan continued to strike, as it became one of the most commonly used and best-selling spy programmes on the online black market.
More than 30 people built Stuxnet worm, noted Brian Tillett, information security researcher at Symantec. Stuxnet has attacked a range of targets including Iranian nuclear facilities and Chinese computers.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is preparing to impose fines on companies that break provisions of the Data Protection Act later this month, the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, has said.
A serious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has effectively taken the country of Burma offline. The attack, which started on Tuesday, has reportedly clogged up the country’s main 45 Mbps internet feed, with DDoS packet rates of between 10 and 15 Gbps.
A growing number of malware attacks are using plug-in USB devices, according to researchers at security firm Avast Software.
The SpyEye trojan, which is competing for criminal “business” with Zeus, has seen a recent surge in activity, according to Lance James, a security researcher at Damballa.
A growing number of malware attacks are using plug-in USB devices, according to researchers at security firm Avast Software.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police is investigating a large leak of sensitive international anti-terrorism documents – including names and addresses of informants – that were placed on the internet, according to Japanese press reports.