Canadian Senator temporarily loses control of X account
The office of Canadian Senator Amina Gerba has confirmed the Quebec parliamentarian’s account on the X/Twitter social media platform was hacked this week. Walter Calderon, the Senator’s executive assistant, made the confirmation Wednesday in a telephone interview. It followed the disclosure of the hack on Tuesday by MalwareHunterTeam, a resource on ransomware for IT teams
Stolen Gold X accounts are increasingly being peddled on dark web, says report
Cybercrooks have increased the number of new or stolen Gold checkmarked accounts from the X/Twitter platform offered for sale; they are a valuable way for threat actors to push links to malware on the social media site through what users will see as a post from a trusted source. There has been a surge of
Ban ransomware payments, Emsisoft urges governments
Plea comes with the release statistics on record ransomware attacks last year i
Microsoft disables feature after abuse by threat actors
Application developers relying on Windows’ App Installer feature for distributing software over the web will have to find another vehicle, after Microsoft disabled a key protocol because it is being abused by threat actors. Microsoft said Thursday it has disabled the ms-appinstaller protocol handler by default because at least four groups have been using it
Cybersecurity Year in Review 2023: A zero-day nightmare
The huge exploitation of MOVEit is the story of the year in our annual roundup of top cybersec
Predictions 2024 from cybersecurity vendors, Part 2
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. Their predictions cover everything from meeting the talent shortage to quantum computing: More advanced persistent threat groups (APTs) will become more active — even beyond the 138 identified by MITRE and
Predictions 2024 from cybersecurity vendors, Part 1
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 among the predictions from companies that provide cybersecurity solutions. We’ve collected comments from over 30 vendors to give infosec pros an idea of what they will face in the next
AlphV/BlackCat allegedly calls for ransomware gang ‘cartel’ to stand up to police
Stand together ‘or they will hunt us all down one by one,’ gang member allege
Two Lapsus$ gang members sentenced in U.K.
One of two British teens in the Lapsus$ hacking gang has been sent to a secure hospital indefinitely by a judge, while another was given a youth rehabilitation order. According to Bloomberg News, Judge Patricia Lees ruled an 18-year old accused of computer crimes should be placed in a secure hospital until a mental health
Scraped images of sexually abused children found in AI training database
The worry is AI models can take real images of abused children and, combined with other images of youth, turn them into realistic sex fakes for comme
