> TODAY'S SUMMARY (42 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. The 3AM ransomware attack on a UK school utilized a human-AI hybrid approach, resulting in the exfiltration of sensitive financial data. Meanwhile, a cyberattack on French plasma storage facilities attempted to compromise cold-room controls, although safeguards prevented loss. Notably, Binance detailed a massive $6.43 billion theft stemming from a sophisticated multi-pronged attack involving fake job interviews and AI tool abuse. Additionally, the cPGuard update was compromised, affecting nearly 3,000 web hosting servers in a supply chain attack. Lastly, CISA has added a critical flaw in WordPress to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, indicating ongoing exploitation risks.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 12:00
Google is buying its way into the infosecurity market, through purchasing security service provider Postini for $625 million (ÂŁ310m, EUR458m) in cash, it said on 9 July.
This year, the Victory Challenge team introduced security into their game plan as they challenged the Swiss defender Alinghi, in the 32nd America’s Cup.
Eighty per cent of infected websites have been compromised by a third-party hacker, according to the latest threat statistics from Sophos.
Lloyds TSB has purchased pattern-recognition software from US vendor Actimize for detecting employee fraud within its retail banking operation. Use of such software is already common in financial services for spotting fraud in external transactions, such as credit card spending.
One gang is responsible for more than half of all attempted phishing for the likes of online banking log-in details, and has found ways to extend the lives of its web-sites, according to researchers at Cambridge University.