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Today's cyber news highlights several critical threats and trends. Anthropic has taken its AI models offline after incidents involving breaches of U.S. government sites, signaling growing concerns over AI security. Ahold Delhaize and major French supermarket chains faced significant disruptions from cyberattacks targeting refrigeration systems, leading to food waste and operational downtime. In another notable incident, Ledger confirmed a hardware implant in its wallets, resulting in cryptocurrency theft. Additionally, a critical vulnerability in SonicWall appliances is being actively exploited, urging organizations to patch immediately. The trend of utilizing AI in cyber operations continues, with reports of CyberXero using AI agents to steal sensitive records from Ukraine. Overall, the landscape remains dynamic and fraught with escalating threats.
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As more details of the Kaspersky web site hack came to light yesterday, the same hacking forum posted details of a similar SQL injection attack, this time on a Portugese reseller for anti-malware firm BitDefender.
FraudTip, a Web security portal, claims that an internet scam is defrauding around 71 000 travellers every month by the simple expedient of routing internet users to fraudulent versions of popular booking sites.
Movies have a funny habit of becoming reality and the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers, starring Robert Redford, is no exception.
The FBI is investigating a $9m large-scale ATM fraud using cards cloned from US card processor RBS Worldpay.
Anti-malware vendor Kaspersky's site was hacked over the weekend, using an SQL injection attack. While admitting that the site was vulnerable, Kaspersky is denying that the vulnerabiity was critical. The hacker nevertheless listed what he said was the full set of tables from the firm's MySQL databas...
On Saturday, Google users were warned that all their search results were potentially harmful, due a widespread result of human error.
The annual report from IBM's X-Force security operation shows what many IT managers have suspected for some time, namely that Web application vulnerabilities represent the major risk for most organisations.
On Saturday, Google users were warned that all their search results were potentially harmful, due to a widespread result of human error.
ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, has developed a new business model for IT security.
If you've had a high company phone bill recently, spare a thought for Martin & Hillyer, a law firm in Burlington, Ontario.
Overclockers.co.uk (OCUK), an online computer hardware reseller firm, have announced they are placing a bounty of ÂŁ10 000 on the heads of hackers behind a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on their web site earlier in the month.
Here's a lesson in IT contingency planning, courtesy of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway network company, whose IT systems - including station indicator boards, electronic ticketing, self-service counter tickets and Internet pages - all went off line on January 14 due to single UPS failing.
'NASA hacker' Gary McKinnon has won permission from the High Court to apply for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States.
The UK government’s Infosec Training Paths and Competencies (ITPC) scheme is to transfer to the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) with effect from 1 April 2009.