Collaborate Disseminate
A new strain of the HardBit ransomware has emerged in the wild, which contains a protection mechanism in an attempt to prevent analysis from security researchers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading HardBit ransomware – what you need to know
In episode seven of The AI Fix, Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet.
Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, … Continue reading The AI Fix #7: Can AIs speak dolphin and do robots lick toads?
A group of hacktivists claims to have breached the IT systems of Disney, and stolen a gigantic 1.1 terabytes worth of data from the entertainment giant’s internal Slack messaging channels.
The hacking group, which calls itself NullBulge, posted on a… Continue reading Disney hacked? NullBulge claims to have stolen 1.1 TB of data from internal Slack channels
Despite first appearing earlier this year, RansomHub is already considered one of the most prolific ransomware groups in existence.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading RansomHub ransomware – what you need to know
The US Justice Department, working in coordination with Canadian and Dutch authorities, has seized two domain names which it claims were being used by Russian-backed hackers to spread disinformation on social media.
Read more in my article on the Ho… Continue reading Exposed! The AI-enhanced social media bot farm that pumped out Kremlin propaganda on Twitter
Execs at a health tech startup are sentenced to jail after a massive ad fraud, and a school is shaken after teachers are targeted via TikTok.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity ve… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #380: Teachers TikTok targeted, and fraud in the doctors’ waiting room
In episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse. Graham inflicts his terrible Austral… Continue reading The AI Fix #6: AI lobotomies, and bots scam scam bots
A ransomware attack by the BlackSuit gang against South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) has put lives at risk and created chaos for healthcare services across the country.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Ransomware attack on blood-testing service puts lives in danger in South Africa
OpenAI’s ever-so-clever ChatGPT’s software was doing something really-rather-stupid: storing users’ chats on their Mac computers in plaintext.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading ChatGPT for Mac app flaw left users’ chat history exposed
Security researchers have warned that a new ransomware group has taken an unusual twist on the traditional method of extorting money from its corporate victims.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Volcano Demon ransomware group rings its victims to extort money