Why IT teams should champion AI in the workplace, and deploy secure AI tools safely to their teams

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Glide. Thanks to the great team there for their support! AI technology is quickly finding it’s footing in the workplace. IT teams need to lead the charge on AI adoption at their compani… Continue reading Why IT teams should champion AI in the workplace, and deploy secure AI tools safely to their teams

Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore hacked! 17,000 game accounts “lost”

Multi-player online role-playing videogame “Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore” has suffered a ransomware attack which saw the deletion of every player’s account and the loss of all characters.

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$9 million seized from “pig butchering” scammers who preyed on lonely hearts

US authorities have seized almost $9 million worth of cryptocurrency linked to a gang engaged in cryptocurrency investment fraud and romance scams.

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Smashing Security podcast #349: Ransomware gang reports its own crime, and what happened at OpenAI?

Who gets to decide who should be CEO of OpenAI? ChatGPT or the board? Plus a ransomware gang goes a step further than most, reporting one of its own data breaches to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Hackers pose as officials to steal secrets and cryptocurrency for North Korea

The Kimsuky hacking gang has been accused of impersonating South Korean officials and journalists in a plot to steal cryptocurrency for the North Korean regime.

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Smashing Security podcast #348: Hacking for chimp change, and AI chatbot birthday

Who’s more incompetent – the cryptocurrency exchanges or some of the people who hack them? Plus a closer look at the reliability of AI chatbots.

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World’s biggest bank hit by ransomware, forced to trade via USB stick

The US trading arm of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has been hit by a ransomware attack that reportedly forced it to handle trades via messengers carrying USB thumb drives across Manhattan.

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