New AI-generated digital replicas of real experts expose an unnerving policy gray zone. Washington wants to fix it, but it’s not clear how.
L’exploitation de vulnérabilités critiques revient en force sur le devant de la scène pour l’établissement d’un accès initial et le lancement de cyberattaques. Elles étaient nombreuses l'an dernier.
L’année qui s’achève a vu de nombreuses entreprises de services numériques frappées par des cyberattaques, en France et au-delà. Avec à chaque fois, un nombre conséquent d’organisations affectées indirectement.
Researchers have created a decryptor that exploits a flaw in Black Basta ransomware, allowing victims to recover their files for free.
Le Centre hospitalier cantonal de St-Gall a attribué un contrat de 2,2 millions de francs suisses pour un service de centre opérationnel de sécurité SOC.
Cloud Atlas spear-phishing attacks hit an agro-industrial enterprise and a state-owned research company.
Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is warning of a new phishing campaign that allowed Russia-linked hackers to deploy previously unseen malware on a network in under one hour.
In response to Russia's invasion, Ukraine called for support from volunteers operating in cyberspace. Since then, hackers have helped Kyiv's war effort. But this new phenomenon also draws criticism.
A full of spectrum of infringment
The cat is out of the bag:
Generative AI systems like DALL-E and ChatGPT have been trained on copyrighted materials;
OpenAI, despite its name, has not been transparent about what it has been trained on.
Generative AI systems are fully capable of producing materials that infringe on copyright.
They do not inform users when they do so.
They do not provide any information about the provenance of any of the images they produce.
Users may not know when they produce any given image whether they are infringing.
Chinese threat actors exploited a new zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda's Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances.
A new Python project called 'Wall of Flippers' detects Bluetooth spam attacks launched by Flipper Zero and Android devices.
Data shows hackers stole around $2 billion in crypto this year, according to data analyzed by blockchain security firms.
Apple's warnings in late October that Indian journalists and opposition figures may have been targeted by state-sponsored attacks prompted a forceful Behind closed doors, senior officials from Modi's administration demanded that Apple soften the political impact of the state-sponsored warnings, according to Washington Post.
German hospital network Katholische Hospitalvereinigung Ostwestfalen (KHO) has confirmed that recent service disruptions were caused by a Lockbit ransomware attack where the threat actors gained access to IT systems and encrypted devices on the network.
Even as the New Year approached and the world celebrated the festive Christmas season, the cybercriminal community did not pause their activities. Instead, they marked the holiday season in their unique way. On Christmas Eve, Resecurity observed multiple actors on the Dark Web releasing substantial data dumps. These were the result of data breaches and network intrusions to a variety of companies and government agencies. Numerous leaks disseminated in the underground cyber world were tagged with 'Free Leaksmas,' indicating that these significant leaks were shared freely among various cybercriminals as a form of mutual gratitude.
A Lockbit ransomware attack against German hospital network Katholische Hospitalvereinigung Ostwestfalen caused service disruptions.
Microsoft has again disabled the MSIX ms-appinstaller protocol handler after multiple financially motivated threat groups abused it to infect Windows users with malware.
En Suisse et partout ailleurs dans le monde, les hôpitaux se retrouvent fréquemment dans la ligne de mire des cybercriminels, exposant nos données médicales à des risques considérables. Dans une ère où la numérisation de la santé est en plein essor, la protection des informations sensibles apparaît comme un défi majeur.
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