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Leveraging AI and automation for enhanced security operations
2024-06-28 04:00

In this Help Net Security interview, Michelle Weston, VP of Security & Resiliency at Kyndryl, discusses the key challenges in security operations and how to address them. How can AI and automation enhance the efficiency and accuracy of security operations?

Polyfill.io owner punches back at 'malicious defamation' amid domain shutdown
2024-06-28 03:45

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Web scraping is not just a security or fraud problem
2024-06-28 03:30

Bots compose 42% of overall web traffic, and 65% of these bots are malicious, according to Akamai. Web scraping is not just a fraud or security problem, it is also a business problem.

TeamViewer can't bring itself to say someone broke into its network – but it happened
2024-06-28 00:37

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Former IT employee accessed data of over 1 million US patients
2024-06-27 23:17

Geisinger, a prominent healthcare system in Pennsylvania, has announced a data breach involving a former employee of Nuance, an IT services provider contracted by the organization. Geisinger is a non-profit organization that operates 134 care sites, ten hospitals, and the Geisinger Health Plan, serving a total of 1.2 million people.

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BlackSuit ransomware gang claims attack on KADOKAWA corporation
2024-06-27 22:57

The BlackSuit ransomware gang claimed a recent cyberattack on KADOKAWA corporation and is now threatening to publish stolen data if a ransom is not paid. While KADOKAWA revealed that they suffered a ransomware attack, they had not shared what ransomware operation was behind the attack.

New Unfurling Hemlock threat actor floods systems with malware
2024-06-27 22:27

A threat actor tracked as Unfurling Hemlock has been infecting target systems with up to ten pieces of malware at the same time in campaigns that distribute hundreds of thousands of malicious files. Security researchers describe the infection method as a "Malware cluster bomb" that allows the threat actor to use one malware sample that spreads additional ones on the compromised machine.

AI Is Changing the Way Enterprises Look at Trust: Deloitte & SAP Weigh In
2024-06-27 19:41

We spoke to Deloitte's Michael Bondar, principal and enterprise trust leader, and Shardul Vikram, chief technology officer and head of data and AI at SAP Industries and CX, about how enterprises can maintain trust in the age of AI. Organizations benefit from trust. Organizations want to be trusted by their customers, but people involved in discussions of trust often hesitate when asked exactly what trust means, he said.

U.S. indicts Russian GRU hacker, offers $10 million reward
2024-06-27 19:31

The U.S. indicted Russian national Amin Timovich Stigal for his alleged role in cyberattacks targeting Ukrainian government computer networks in an operation from the Russian foreign military intelligence agency prior to invading the country. The announcement from the Department of Justice says that in January 2022 Stigal and members of the GRU used a U.S.-based company to distribute the WhisperGate pseudo-ransomware to systems at dozens of Ukrainian government entities to destroy data.

TeamViewer's corporate network was breached in alleged APT hack
2024-06-27 18:29

The remote access software company TeamViewer is warning that its corporate environment was breached in a cyberattack yesterday, with a cybersecurity firm claiming it was by an APT hacking group. "On Wednesday, 26 June 2024, our security team detected an irregularity in TeamViewer's internal corporate IT environment," TeamViewer said in a post to its Trust Center.