Your car is spying on you. That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las Vegas earlier this week. Privacy data experts say the deep dive by Elon Musk’s company was impressive, but also shines a spotlight on a difficult […]
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against a Chinese technology company for supporting cyberattacks against US critical infrastructure. Based in Beijing, the sanctioned firm, Integrity Technology Group (Integrity Tech), develops and sells cybersecurity products such as network simulation, network security training, and network security competition solutions. […]
French IT services giant Atos said its systems have not been compromised after a ransomware group claimed to have stolen data belonging to the company. A cybercrime group named Space Bears listed Atos on its Tor-based leak website last week, claiming to have obtained a “company database”. Shortly after, Atos issued a statement saying that […]
Cybersecurity giant Tenable announced over the weekend the unexpected passing of its chairman and chief executive officer, Amit Yoran, at the age of 54, after a battle with cancer. Yoran, a cybersecurity industry veteran and a respected member of the community, had served as CEO of Tenable since 2016. Prior to Tenable, Yoran held leadership […]
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A recently identified Android malware described as an information stealer and spyware has broad monitoring capabilities that allow it to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information from numerous applications, threat landscape management company Cyfirma reports. Dubbed FireScam, the malware is distributed disguised as the ‘Telegram Premium’ application, through a phishing website that mimics the legitimate RuStore […]
SafeBreach has published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code targeting a recently resolved denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-49113 (CVSS score of 7.5), was patched on December 10 along with a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw in LDAP (CVE-2024-49112, CVSS score of 9.8). Neither of the defects […]
The United States has imposed sanctions on two groups linked to Iranian and Russian efforts to target American voters with disinformation ahead of this year’s election. Treasury officials announced the sanctions Tuesday, alleging that the two organizations sought to stoke divisions among Americans before November’s vote. US intelligence has accused both governments of spreading disinformation, […]
The Richmond University Medical Center in New York has been investigating a ransomware attack since May 2023 and it recently determined that the incident resulted in a data breach affecting more than 670,000 people. The healthcare facility, which serves residents in Staten Island, New York, suffered significant disruptions in May 2023 after being targeted in […]
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated […]