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2024-02-08 Post a Comment

The ransomware business is booming, even as enforcers shut down some major players

ByÂ Lauren Feiner,Â Palo Alto Networksâ€™ Unit 42 found a 49 percent bump in victims reported by ransomware leak sites in 2023. 2023 was a big year for ransomware groups, even as law enforcement around the world continued to crack down on attackers. Palo Alto Networksâ€™ Unit 42, the threat intelligence firm, found a 49 percent bump in victims reported by ransomware leak sites, totaling nearly 4,000 posts to those sites […]

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2024-02-08 Post a Comment

â€˜Everyone looked realâ€™: multinational firmâ€™s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting

by Harvey Kong Employee fooled after seeing digitally recreated versions of companyâ€™s chief financial officer and others in video call Deepfake technology has been in the spotlight after fake explicit images of pop superstar Taylor Swift spread on social media sites A multinational company lost HK$200 million (US$25.6 million) in a scam after employees at its Hong Kong branch were fooled by deepfake technology, with one incident involving a digitally […]

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2024-02-08 Post a Comment

Apple fixes zero-day bug in Apple Vision Pro that â€˜may have been exploitedâ€™

By Zack Whittaker@zackwhittakerÂ A day after reporters published their first hands-on review of Appleâ€™s Vision Pro, the technology giant released its first security patch for the mixed reality headset to fix a vulnerability that â€œmay have been exploitedâ€ by hackers in the wild. On Wednesday, Apple released visionOS 1.0.2, the software that runs on the Vision Pro, with a fix for a vulnerability in WebKit, the browser engine that runs […]

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2024-02-08 Post a Comment

How SMBs can lower their risk of cyberattacks and data breaches

Sponsored by Specops Software TheÂ Akira ransomware groupÂ is targeting small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) -Â 80% of its victims, since March 2023, have been SMBs. According toÂ Arctic Wolf, the groups ransom demand ranges between $200,000 USD to over $4 million USD. If the organizations refuse to pay, the gang threatens to expose names and data. According to the same source, most intrusions leveraged compromise credentials to obtain initial access. Akira is just […]

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2024-02-08 Post a Comment

AnyDesk says hackers breached its production servers, reset passwords

By Lawrence Abrams AnyDesk confirmed today that it suffered a recent cyberattack that allowed hackers to gain access to the company’s production systems. BleepingComputer has learned that source code and private code signing keys were stolen during the attack. AnyDesk is a remote access solution that allows users to remotely access computers over a network or the internet. The program is very popular with the enterprise, which use it for […]