Judge rules it’s fine for car makers to intercept your text messages

A federal judge has refused to bring back a class action lawsuit that alleged four car manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record customers’ text messages and mobile phone call logs. Car Read More …

Sandworm Disrupts Power in Ukraine Using a Novel Attack Against Operational Technology

In late 2022, Mandiant responded to a disruptive cyber physical incident in which the Russia-linked threat actor Sandworm targeted a Ukrainian critical infrastructure organization. This incident was a multi-event cyber attack that leveraged a novel technique for impacting industrial control Read More …

OpenAI Blames ChatGPT’s Intermittent Outages On ‘Abnormal Traffic’ That Suggests Potential Cyber Attack

ChatGPT continued to face intermittent outages late Wednesday, which the platform’s maker OpenAI blamed on a potential cyberattack, hours after the AI chatbot platform recovered from a wide outage that the company initially attributed to a surge in interest for Read More …

SysAid warns customers to patch after ransomware gang caught exploiting new zero-day flaw

Software maker SysAid is warning customers that hackers linked to a notorious ransomware gang are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in its widely used IT service automation software. SysAid chief technology officer Sasha Shapirov confirmed in a blog post Wednesday Read More …

FBI: Ransomware Actors Continue to Gain Access through Third Parties and Legitimate System Tools

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this Private Industry Notification to highlight ransomware initial access trends and encourage organizations to implement the recommendations in the “Mitigations” section to reduce the likelihood and impact of ransomware incidents. Threat As Read More …

UK: Cyber attack hits island council computer systems

A suspected ransomware attack has caused significant disruption to IT systems at Western Isles local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. The council said access to its systems had been affected. The Scottish government and computer company Dell have been helping Comhairle Read More …

Indian hackers launch cyber attacks on Qatar to avenge death penalty of former Navy officers

An Indian hacker group, named ‘Indian Cyber Force’ launched cyber attacks on Qatar in response to the death sentence handed to eight former Indian Navy officers by a Qatari court in Espionage case. The Indian hackers claimed of carrying out Read More …