The U.S. Department of Justice said it disrupted a Russian propaganda campaign using fake social media accounts, powered by artificial intelligence, to spread disinformation in the U.S. and other countries. The bot farm used AI to create profiles impersonating Americans on X, formerly known as Twitter, and to post support for Russia’s war in Ukraine […]

A leading cybersecurity expert has warned that the NHS remains vulnerable to further cyber-attacks unless it updates its computer systems. This stark assessment comes in the wake of a major ransomware attack that has severely disrupted healthcare services across London. Prof Ciaran Martin, the founding CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), told […]

The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual “State of Ransomware 2024” report that the average ransom payment has increased 500% in the last year with organizations that paid a ransom reporting an […]

A 22-year-old Russian national has been indicted in the U.S. for his alleged role in staging destructive cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies in the days leading to Russia’s full-blown military invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Amin Timovich Stigal, the defendant in question, is assessed to be affiliated with the Main Directorate of […]

“Humans are very vulnerable.” That’s according to Yuliya Novikova, head of Fingerprint Intelligence at the cybersecurity company Kaspersky. She made the comment after an exhaustive study of 193 million passwords found that only two out of 10 are secure. Most are cracked in an hour, and many of them in just a minute. And cracking […]

The G7 nations will develop a collective cybersecurity framework for operational technologies in energy systems, aimed at both manufacturers and operators. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan announced the agreement at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Apuliu on June 18. The framework aims to strengthen the cybersecurity of the global supply chain of key technologies […]

The private Australian health insurer Medibank did not have multi factor authentication protections on its private network when it was successfully hacked, new court filings allege. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) alleges a lack of multi factor authentication at Medibank led to the 2022 data hack of nearly 9.7 million current and […]

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing phishing campaign that leverages recruiting- and job-themed lures to deliver a Windows-based backdoor named WARMCOOKIE. “WARMCOOKIE appears to be an initial backdoor tool used to scout out victim networks and deploy additional payloads,” Elastic Security Labs researcher Daniel Stepanic said in a new analysis. “Each sample is […]

State-sponsored threat actors backed by China gained access to 20,000 Fortinet FortiGate systems worldwide by exploiting a known critical security flaw between 2022 and 2023, indicating that the operation had a broader impact than previously known. “The state actor behind this campaign was already aware of this vulnerability in FortiGate systems at least two months […]

An appeal has been launched for O blood-type donors to book appointments across the country following the ransomware attack affecting major London hospitals. The IT attack means the affected hospitals cannot currently match patients’ blood at the same frequency as usual. Several London hospitals declared a critical incident, cancelled operations and tests, and were unable […]