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The Swiss government had around 65,000 files related to it stolen by the Play ransomware gang during an attack on an IT supplier, its National Cyber Security Center says. A total of 1.3 million files were stolen during the incident at software biz Xplain in May 2023, meaning 5 percent of the entire trove related to the Swiss Federal Administration - a collection of seven federal agencies that alongside the Federal Council comprise the main government departments.
The developers of the information stealer malware known as Rhadamanthys are actively iterating on its features, broadening its information-gathering capabilities and also incorporating a plugin...
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Microsoft has made fresh commitments to harden the security of its software and cloud services after a year in which numerous members of the global infosec community criticized the company's tech defenses. The long and short of it is that Microsoft is pushing the big AI button a few more times, more deeply embedding the tech throughout its security operations and products.
Bruschetta-Board is a device for all hardware hackers looking for a fairly-priced all-in-one debugger and programmer that supports UART, JTAG, I2C & SPI protocols and allows to interact with different targets' voltages. A handy feature of Bruschetta-Board is the fact it mounts level shifters.
All appointments for Swiss Schengen tourist and transit visa applicants have been cancelled across the UK. TLSContact, the Swiss government's chosen IT provider for facilitating visa applicants...
The Swiss government has disclosed that a recent ransomware attack on an IT supplier might have impacted its data, while today, it warns that it is now targeted in DDoS attacks. Last Tuesday, the Swiss government disclosed that they were impacted by a ransomware attack on Xplain, a Swiss technology provider supplying various government departments, administrative units, and even the country's military force with software solutions.
A supposedly secure messaging app preferred by the Swiss government and army was infested with bugs - possibly for a long time - before an audit by ETH Zurich researchers. Threema downplayed the bugs in a blog post about the research.
Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, also known as Tank and one of the leaders of the notorious JabberZeus cybercrime gang, was arrested in Geneva last month. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice said Penchukov was arrested last month and is waiting to be extradited to the United States, although he can still appeal FOJ's decision.
Somewhere between 73 and 81 percent of retail Bitcoin buyers are likely to have lost money on their investment, according to research published Monday by the Bank of International Settlements. The Switzerland-based bank for other central banks wanted to understand why retail investors continue to participate in cryptocurrency exchanges to trade tokens like Bitcoin.