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The Philippine defense chief has ordered all defense personnel and the 163,000-member military to refrain from using digital applications that harness artificial intelligence to generate personal portraits, saying they could pose security risks. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. issued the order in an Oct. 14 memorandum, as Philippine forces have been working to weaken decades-old […]
Oct 24, 2023NewsroomCyber Espionage / Data Safety A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of attempting to transmit classified defense information to Russia. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, served as an Information Systems Security Designer for the NSA from June 6, 2022, to July 1, 2022, […]
The hospitals’ IT provider, TransForm, is investigating the incident and determining if patient data was compromised. As a result of the outage, online services such as patient records and email have been affected.
Ransomware breaches have cost the US economy tens of billions of dollars in downtime alone over the past seven years, according to new research from Comparitech. The consumer awareness firm analyzed data on all known ransomware attacks affecting medical organizations between 2016 and mid-October 2023, looking at specialist IT news, data breach reports and state […]
Chinese scammers are using fake loan apps and India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to deceive victims and launder money. The scammers pose as loan providers and promise easy repayments in exchange for a fee.
Oct 24, 2023NewsroomCyber Fraud / Cyber Crime Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of 34 members of a criminal group that carried out various online scams, netting the gang about €3 million ($3.2 million) in illegal profits. Authorities conducted searches across 16 locations Madrid, Malaga, Huelva, Alicante, and Murcia, seizing two simulated firearms, […]
While application development has evolved rapidly, the API management suites used to access these services remain a spooky reminder of a different era. Introducing new API management infrastructure with these legacy models still poses challenges for organizations as they modernize. Transitioning from monolithic architectures to agile microservices empowers developers to make quick changes. Using serverless […]
Oct 24, 2023NewsroomCyber Threat / Vulnerability The backdoor implanted on Cisco devices by exploiting a pair of zero-day flaws in IOS XE software has been modified by the threat actor so as to escape visibility via previous fingerprinting methods. “Investigated network traffic to a compromised device has shown that the threat actor has upgraded the […]
andresr/Getty Images NCC Group released its Threat Pulse for September, which detailed a shocking increase of 153% in September for ransomware attacks. According to the report, the following groups were listed in the number of attacks: LostTrust RansomedVC LockBit Clop As far as targets for ransomware, North America was once again at the top of […]