Category: Cyber Security

Over the decades, Hollywood has depicted artificial intelligence (AI) in multiple unsettling ways. In their futuristic settings, the AI begins to think for itself, outsmarts the humans, and overthrows society. The resulting dark world is left in a constant barrage of storms – metaphorically and meteorologically. (It’s always so gloomy and rainy in those movies.)  […]

The global cost of cybercrime in 2023 was set to hit 8 trillion U.S. dollars. The financial industry is a prime target as the rate of ransomware attacks has nearly doubled (64%) since 2021. Financial institutions are protecting against cybersecurity attacks by having a strong infrastructure that is able to enforce a zero trust policy. […]

Here are a few headlines from the last 24 hours or so, about a supposed smart toothbrush botnet launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack: And there were many more… The reports were inspired by a report last week in the Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung. The German-language article certainly starts dramatically. Here’s a computer-generated translation of […]

Update February 20, 07:21 EST: Article updated with further details on the operation. Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool to recover encrypted files for free, and seized over 200 crypto-wallets after hacking the cybercrime gang’s servers in an international crackdown operation. French and U.S. judicial […]

Feb 20, 2024NewsroomHacking / Cyber Espionage The North Korean state-sponsored threat actors have been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign targeting the defense sector across the world. In a joint advisory published by Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), the agencies said the goal […]

Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are steadily increasing, driven by geopolitical conflicts as well as the longtime problem of poorly secured devices that remain exposed and unprotected on the public Internet. But with cyberattacks on water treatment plants rising and the US federal government issuing a high-profile warning about China’s plans to disrupt US critical infrastructure, […]

A passkey is a specific authentication method that can be used as commonly as a password but to provide additional security. Passkeys differ from passwords as they combine private and public cryptographic keys to authenticate users, whereas a password relies on a specific number of characters. According to Google, the most immediate benefits of passkeys […]