A number of elected officials, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, law enforcement officers, right-wing media outlets, and far-right extremists have boosted a baseless conspiracy theory that Jewish Hungarian billionaire George Soros or some nefarious shadowy organization is helping to fund the pro-Palestinian student protests at universities across the US. They are promoting the […]
By Azadeh MoshiriBBC News BBC The US has imposed sanctions on six officials in Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) which it says are responsible for the cyber-attacks on American water plants late last year. This comes as the US prepares its response to the drone attack that killed three US soldiers in Jordan, […]
Enlarge Getty Images OpenAI officials say that the ChatGPT histories a user reported result from his ChatGPT account being compromised. The unauthorized logins came from Sri Lanka, an Open AI representative said. The user said he logs into his account from Brooklyn, New York. “From what we discovered, we consider it an account take over […]
Officials at the State Department are working through roles and hiring challenges at the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The Thursday report, which looks at cyber diplomacy efforts in the United States, reported that officials at the new bureau responsible for pushing U.S. cyber policy interests abroad […]
The University of Wollongong has become the latest victim of a data breach, as confirmed by university officials. In a statement released over the weekend, the institution acknowledged the University of Wollongong data breach and assured the public that measures are being taken to contain the incident. Both staff and students are believed to be […]
A cyberattack on a North Carolina county has forced officials to call in the state’s national guard for assistance. In a message to residents on Tuesday, Bladen County said it became the victims of a cyberattack last week. The county — tucked in the southern point of the state about an hour away from Wilmington […]
A Cyber Breach Delays Poll Worker Training in Mississippi’s Largest County Before the Statewide Vote
Election officials in Mississippi’s most populous county had to scramble to complete required poll worker training after an early September breach involving county computers. In Hinds County, such training is typically completed by early October before a November general election, according to Election Commissioner Shirley Varnado. Instead, office staff members worked right up to Thursday’s […]
Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they had not provided an explanation as of Wednesday, experts say it has all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack. The disruption has left attorneys unable to search online records and […]
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, […]
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