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Christie's Auction House Hacked, Sensitive Data from 500,000 Customers Stolen
A hacker group claims to have stolen sensitive data from at least 500,000 Christie's customers. Now they are threatening to publish it.
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Cyberattacks on hospitals 'should be considered a regional disaster,' researchers find
It was early May in 2021 when patients flooded the emergency room at the University of California San Diego Health Center. "We were bringing in backup staff, our wait times had gone haywire, the whole system was overloaded," said Dr. Christopher Longhurst, UC San Diego's chief medical officer and digital officer. "We felt it."
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Microsoft on major Outlook and OneDrive outages: We were hacked
In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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How ‘Juice Jackers’ Plant Malware On Your Phone At Airports And Hotels
USB charging ports are everywhere, and a seemingly handy way for travelers to keep their devices powered up. But earlier this month, the FBI warned consumers against using these charging stations in public places like airports, hotels and shopping malls.
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FBI warns against using public phone charging stations
The FBI recently warned consumers against using free public charging stations, saying crooks have managed to hijack public chargers that can infect devices with malware, or software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or computer.
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A ransomware gang claims it has breached Ring and is threatening to leak data
A popular ransomware operator claims to have compromised Ring, the Amazon-owned company that builds smart doorbells with cameras. A new report on Vice’s Motherboard states that the group known as ALPHV, popular for its use of the BlackCat encryptor malware, added a new entry to its leak site, next to which is Ring’s logo.
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China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors
New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region.
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AI porn is easy to make now. For women, that’s a nightmare.
Deepfakes, OnlyFans, revenge porn: The internet is weighing the costs of accessible AI imaging.
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Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.
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Feds announce $3.36 billion seizure of bitcoin, the second-largest recovery of crypto so far
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it seized about $3.36 billion in stolen bitcoin during a previously unannounced 2021 raid on the residence of James Zhong. Zhong pleaded guilty Friday to one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
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French-speaking crooks stole $30m in bank cyber-heist spree
A French-speaking criminal group codenamed OPERA1ER has pulled off more than 30 cyber-heists against telecom organizations and banks across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, stealing upwards of $30 million over four years, according to security researchers.
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A former cybercriminal who once worked with - and betrayed - the Secret Service says the easy access to bots is one of the biggest threats on the internet right now
A former cybercriminal who once worked with - and betrayed - the Secret Service warned that internet hackers have access to more sophisticated tools than ever, and he thinks they're more motivated to steal as the economic picture gets worse. Brett Shannon Johnson is now the chief criminal officer at Arkose Labs, a fraud prevention company.
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Samsung Data Breach Exposed Customers’ Personal Information
It’s been a pretty big week for hackers. Both Plex and LastPass were hit by a data breach, and security researchers uncovered a phishing campaign with over 130 corporate targets. Now, Samsung is notifying customers of its own data breach, which exposed customers names, addresses, and other personal information.
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DoorDash hit by data breach linked to Twilio hackers
Food delivery giant DoorDash has confirmed a data breach that exposed customers’ personal information. In a blog post shared with TechCrunch ahead of its publication at market close, DoorDash said malicious hackers stole credentials from employees of a third-party vendor that were then used to gain access to some of DoorDash’s internal tools.
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An old satellite was hacked to broadcast signals across North America
Agroup of security researchers have hacked a decommissioned communications satellite, called Anik F1R, originally shot into orbit in 2005. Embedded device security researcher Karl Koscher and his colleagues demonstrated that malicious hackers could potentially communicate with satellites that have been decommissioned but not yet moved into their final resting place — their “graveyard orbit.”
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An Entire Canadian Town Is Being Extorted By Ransomware Cyber Criminals
The Canadian town of St. Marys had its data stolen and held hostage by a ransomware gang.
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Hackers can bring ships and planes to a grinding halt. And it could become much more common
Armed with little more than a computer, hackers are increasingly setting their sights on some of the biggest things that humans can build. Vast container ships and chunky freight planes — essential in today’s global economy — can now be brought to a halt by a new generation of code warriors. “The reality is that an aeroplane or vessel, like any digital system, can be hacked,” David Emm, a principal security researcher at cyber firm Kaspersky, told CNBC.
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How to combat the unethical and costly use of deepfakes
Deepfakes are video, audio and image content generated by artificial intelligence. This technology can produce false images, videos or sounds of a person, place or event that appear authentic. In 2018, there were approximately 14,698 deepfake videos circulating online. Since then, the number has soared through the popularity of deepfake apps like DeepFaceLab, Zao, FaceApp and Wombo.
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How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke
For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a world without passwords is just around the corner, and yet year after year, this security nirvana proves out of reach. Now, for the first time, a workable form of passwordless authentication is about to become available to the masses in the form of a standard adopted by Apple, Google, and Microsoft that allows for cross-platform and cross-service passkeys.
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A Hacker Gang's Alleged Members Are in Jail. It's Still Stealing Data.
LAPSUS$ is causing global amounts of trouble despite the arrests of half a dozen alleged members of the gang and a looming court case.
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