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The Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky posted the summary of most interesting trends and developments of the last 12 months. This is based on Kaspersky visibility in the threat landscape and it’s important to note that no single Read More …
Queensland government-owned energy generator CS Energy said on Tuesday it was responding to a ransomware incident that occurred over the weekend. First reported by Energy Source & Distribution, the company said the incident has not impacted electricity generation at Callide Read More …
Yanluowang, the ransomware recently discovered by Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software, is now being used by a threat actor that has been mounting targeted attacks against U.S. corporations since at least August 2021. The attacker uses a number of Read More …
Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has admitted it’s been popped, and badly. A November 26 statement [PDF] from the company admits that its network “was illegally accessed by a third party on November 11, 2021”. That date has since been revised Read More …
The chief of the United Kingdom’s foreign spy service is to warn that China and Russia are racing to master artificial intelligence in a way that could revolutionise geopolitics over the next 10 years. Richard Moore, who heads the Secret Read More …
An unpatched Windows security vulnerability could allow information disclosure and local privilege escalation (LPE), researchers have warned. The issue (CVE-2021-24084) has yet to get an official fix, making it a zero-day bug – but a micropatch has been rolled out Read More …
An Australian firm which claims to have a database of more than 10 billion facial images is facing a potential £17m fine over its handling of personal data in the UK. The Information Commissioner’s Office said it had significant concerns Read More …
Cannazon, one of the largest dark web marketplaces for buying marijuana products, shut down last week after suffering a debilitating distributed denial of service attack. As the admins explained in a message signed with the market’s PGP key, they are Read More …
The ScarCruft group (also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper) is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. ScarCruft is known to target North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news and government organizations related to the Read More …
As Apple and WhatsApp have built themselves into multibillion-dollar behemoths, they’ve done it while preaching the importance of privacy, especially when it comes to secure messaging. But in a previously unreported FBI document obtained by Rolling Stone, the bureau claims Read More …