Cybersecurity

Pro-Ukraine hackers claim breach of Russian internet provider

The pro-Ukrainian hacker group Blackjack is claiming that it breached a Moscow internet provider to seek revenge for a Russian cyberattack on Ukraine’s largest telecom company, Kyivstar. The attack on M9com was carried out in cooperation with Ukraine’s security forces (SBU), said a source in Ukraine’s law enforcement agency who requested anonymity because he is […]

Cybersecurity

Notorious ransomware group tussles with law enforcement, regenerates after takedown

AlphV re-emerged within hours of a law enforcement takedown of its infrastructure on Tuesday, claiming it had “unseized” its data leak site, according to threat researchers’ dark web observations. The prolific ransomware group named a new victim organization and updated a post on a previously claimed victim since the FBI and international law enforcement agencies […]

Cybersecurity

UK Parliament Opens Inquiry into Cyber-Resilience

UK lawmakers have launched an inquiry into the cyber-resilience of critical national infrastructure (CNI), claiming the country is the third most targeted globally, after the US and Ukraine. The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee will oversee the inquiry, alarmed at the proliferation of state and non-state actors using offensive cyber capabilities against UK organizations. As […]

Data Center

Google touts AI supercomputer; Nvidia tops MLPerf 3.0 tests | TechTarget

The war of words among AI supercomputer vendors escalated this week with Google claiming that its TPU-based system is faster and more efficient than Nvidia’s A100-based entry, according to its own testing. Nvidia countered that its H100 system is faster based on testing conducted by the independent MLCommons using MLPerf 3.0. Google researchers reported that […]