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Microsoft spots surge in pro-Russia exploits of video platform to spread propaganda An unknown pro-Russia influence group spent time recruiting unwitting Hollywood actors to assist in smear campaigns against Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky.… READ MORE HERE…
End-of-year deadline looms on US surveillance Two competing bills to reauthorize America’s FISA Section 702 spying powers advanced in the House of Representatives committees this week, setting up Congress for a battle over warrantless surveillance before the law lapses in the New Year.… READ MORE HERE…
Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins Human trafficking for the purposes of populating cyber scam call centers is expanding beyond southeast Asia, where the crime was previously isolated.… READ MORE HERE…
Says it was probably hacked, which isn’t good news either A trio of Polish security researchers claim to have found that trains built by Newag SA contain software that sabotages them if the hardware is serviced by competitors.… READ MORE HERE…
The Russians are coming! Err, they’ve already infiltrated UK, US inboxes Russia-backed attackers have named new targets for their ongoing phishing campaigns, with defense-industrial firms and energy facilities now in their sights, according to agencies of the Five Eyes alliance.… READ MORE HERE…
NHS Trust admits highly sensitive data left online for nearly three years More than 22,000 patients of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were hit by data leaks that took place between 2020 and 2021.… READ MORE HERE…
Issue has been around since at least 2012 A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple, Android and Linux devices and inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands, according to a software engineer at drone technology firm SkySafe.… READ MORE HERE…
Why we need the confidence to deploy secure, compliant AI-powered applications and workloads Sponsored Feature Every organisation must prioritise the protection of mission critical data, applications and workloads or risk disaster in the face of an ever-widening threat landscape.… READ MORE HERE…
GRU-linked crew going after our code warns Microsoft – Outlook not good Fancy Bear, the Kremlin’s cyber-spy crew, has been exploiting two previously patched bugs for large-scale phishing campaigns against high-value targets – like government, defense, and aerospace agencies in the US and Europe – since March, according to Microsoft. … READ MORE HERE…
Accounting software firm Tipalti says it’s investigating alleged break-in of its systems The AlphV/BlackCat ransomware group said it plans to “go direct” to the clients of a firm it allegedly attacked to extort them, claiming to have infiltrated the systems of accounting software vendor Tipalti.… READ MORE HERE…