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Predictions 2024 from cybersecurity vendors, Part 2

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We’ve collected comments from more than 40 vendors to give infosec pros an idea of what they might face in the next 12 months....

Predictions 2024 from cybersecurity vendors, Part 1

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2024 will be a year dominated by artificial intelligence-created deepfakes and advanced phishing attacks, but also new AI-based detection applications to help defenders. These are...

AlphV/BlackCat allegedly calls for ransomware gang ‘cartel’ to stand up to police

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Seemingly stunned by this week’s action by law enforcement agencies in several countries,  members of two ransomware groups allegedly talked about forming a partnership. Security...

Two Lapsus$ gang members sentenced in U.K.

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One of two British teens in the Lapsus$ hacking gang has been sent to a secure hospital indefinitely by a judge, while another was...

Scraped images of sexually abused children found in AI training database

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Thousands of images of sexually abused children scraped from the internet are part of a commonly-used database used to train artificial intelligence image generators,...

Threat actors still exploiting old unpatched vulnerabilities, says Cisco

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The exploitation of a vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer application was one of the biggest cybersecurity news headlines of the year. However, according...

U.S. drug store chain banned from using facial recognition for five years

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Rite Aid, an American drug store chain, will be banned by a regulator from using facial recognition applications to identify suspicious customers for five...

AlphV/BlackCat ransomware gang’s websites seized, FBI releases decrypter

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U.S. authorities have confirmed the disruption of the AlphV/BlackCat ransomware gang, including the seizure of several of the group’s data leak and communications sites...

Southern Ontario school board acknowledges ‘cyber incident’

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One of the biggest public school boards in Southern Ontario has publicly acknowledged a cyber attack, over a month after it was detected. The York...

Dental benefits group notifying almost 7 million Americans of MOVEit data theft

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Almost 7 million U.S. residents are being notified by a dental benefits provider that their personal information was stolen in one of the biggest...

Hackers abusing OAuth to automate cyber attacks, says Microsoft

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Threat actors are misusing OAuth-based applications as an automation tool for authentication, says Microsoft. “Threat actors compromise user accounts to create, modify, and grant high...

BlackBerry names new CEO, will split cybersecurity and IoT businesses

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BlackBerry’s new leader is the former head of its cybersecurity business unit. The Waterloo, Ont., company said this morning that John Giamatteo is its new...

European political agreement paves the way for AI law

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The European Union has reached agreement on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence law. According to the Associated Press, negotiators from the European Parliament and...

Canadian mid-sized firms pay an average $1.13 million to ransomware gangs

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The average ransomware payment made by mid-sized Canadian companies this year was just over $1 million, according to a new survey. The survey of IT...

Canadian privacy czars release principles for responsible development of AI

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On the heels of cybersecurity guidance for generative AI systems issued by the federal government, Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial privacy regulators have issued...
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