A north London school and a Berkshire schools group have become the latest victims of serious cyber-attacks ahead of the new term, according to local reports. Highgate Wood School in Crouch End will now begin accepting pupils on September 11 rather than September 5 as originally intended. The secondary school, which serves local students aged […]
The Electoral Commission has admitted it failed a cybersecurity test in the same year that hackers successfully attacked the organisation. The UK’s elections watchdog said it did not pass a Cyber Essentials test, a voluntary government-backed scheme that assesses an organisation’s readiness against cyber-attacks. The commission said it failed the test in 2021, when it […]
U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks. They then remotely removed the malicious software agent — known as Qakbot — from thousands of infected computers. Cybersecurity experts […]
The UK’s cybersecurity agency has warned that chatbots can be manipulated by hackers to cause scary real-world consequences. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said there are growing cybersecurity risks of individuals manipulating the prompts through “prompt injection” attacks. This is where a user creates an input or a prompt that is designed to […]
Danish cloud hosting services provider CloudNordic has announced that all its systems were rendered unusable following a ransomware attack. The attack, the company explains in an incident notice on its website, started on Friday, August 18, and resulted in all its systems and servers being shut down. “Websites, e-mail systems, customer systems, our customers’ websites, etc. […]
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has urged companies to modernize their cybersecurity systems, cautioning that bad actors have become much faster at breaching company defenses than ever before. Speaking to Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money on Aug. 21, the cybersecurity firm CEO said that companies with outdated security systems need to take particular […]
Even in the usually exciting world of cybersecurity, discussions on enterprise security budgets tend to veer toward the mundane. However, today’s macroenvironment has thwarted almost every market prediction, and while we know for certain that the down market has driven most companies toward austerity, its true impact on cybersecurity spending has remained an enigma — […]
The six biggest companies in AI had a peculiar challenge for hackers last week: make their chatbots say the most terrible things. Hackers lined up outside the Caesars Forum conference center just off the Las Vegas Strip for their chance to trick some of the newest and most widely used chatbots. Held as part of […]
Aug 1 (Reuters) – An obscure cloud service company has been providing state-sponsored hackers with internet services to spy on and extort their victims, a cybersecurity firm said in a report to be published on Tuesday. Researchers at Texas-based Halcyon said a company called Cloudzy had been leasing server space and reselling it to no […]
Much of the malicious cyber activity we hear and read about in the news these days tends to be from actors who are focused on some form of personal gain. Whether it is ransomware gangs seeking profit or nation-state actors conducting espionage on government networks, we’ve grown accustomed to viewing malicious hackers in terms of […]