Services coming back online after legacy systems compromised Oxford City Council says a cyberattack earlier this month resulted in 21 years of data being compromised.… READ MORE HERE…
To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems Researchers based in Israel and India have developed a defense against automated call scams.… READ MORE HERE…
Feds told they can’t demand a haystack to find a needle The United States is requesting [PDF] a month-long extension to the deadline for its final decision regarding an appeal against a judge’s ruling that obtaining tower dumps is unconstitutional.… READ MORE HERE…
Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my A sneaky malware campaign slithers through Cloudflare tunnel subdomains to execute in-memory malicious code and give unknown attackers long-term access to pwned machines.… READ MORE HERE…
Infostealers posing as popular cheat tools are cropping up on GitHub Trojanized Minecraft cheat tools hosted on GitHub have secretly installed stealers that siphon credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data when executed by players.… READ MORE HERE…
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Hardcoded passwords and path traversals keeping bug hunters in work Security researchers have issued a warning about a pre-authentication exploit chain affecting a CMS used by some of the biggest companies in the world.… READ MORE HERE…
Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved on Cyber-crime crew Scattered Spider has infected US insurance companies following a series of ransomware attacks against American and British retailers, according to Google, which urged this sector to be on “high alert.”… READ MORE HERE…
The group has previously threatened to SWAT cancer patients and leaked pre-op plastic surgery photos An extortion gang claims to have breached Freedman HealthCare, a data and analytics firm whose customers include state agencies, health providers, and insurance companies, and is threatening to dump tens of thousands of sensitive files early Tuesday morning.… READ MORE HERE…
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