Warfare: Cyberattack Launched Against Hospitals Across U.S.
Cybercriminals continue to be blamed as the primary actors in cyberattacks, but any logical analysis reveals the massive scale of these attacks would absolutely require…
Cybersecurity
Deepfake Fraud Surges More Than 1000%, Insiders Say It’s Just The Beginning
By Autumn Spredemann As the line between fact and fiction gets harder to distinguish, online criminals need just two hours to create a realistic, computer-generated…
4 in 10 Businesses Have Already Seen Deepfakes, Injection Attacks
By Chris Burt Disjointed digital ID management creates generative AI vulnerability Deepfakes have suddenly become much easier to create with the launch of generative AI…
WormGPT And FraudGPT Emerge As Scammers Weaponize AI Chatbots To Steal Data
By Tyler Durden Threat actors are using generative artificial intelligence tools “to automate the creation of highly convincing fake emails, personalized to the recipient, thus…
PhD Student Uses Deepfake to Pass Popular Voice Authentication and Spoof Detection System
By Bianca Gonzalez University of Waterloo (UW) cybersecurity PhD student Andre Kassis published his findings after being granted access to an account protected with biometrics…
1Password, Microsoft Move to Biometric Authentication
By Bianca Gonzalez 1Password and Microsoft are among vendors moving to passwordless login, switching to phishing-resistant biometric passkeys. In a blog post, 1Password announced a…
First Draft of UN Cybercrime Convention Drops Troubling Provisions, But Dangerous And Open-Ended Cross Border Surveillance Powers Are Still on the Table
By Katitza Rodriguez This is Part I of a two-part post about the first draft of the UN Cybercrime Convention. Part I provides background on…
ChatGPT’s Evil Twin “WormGPT” Is Silently Entering Emails And Raiding Banks
ChatGPT is just one version of advanced AI platforms, but as predictable, it has already fallen into the hands of evil people to do evil…
Biden Admin Proposes Voluntary Program for Companies to Put Cybersecurity Labels on IoT Devices; Will Eventually Address Utility “Smart” Meters
By B.N. Frank Over the years, countless experts have warned about privacy and cybersecurity risks with all “smart”, wireless and/or Internet of Things (IoT) devices…
Is Your Phone Spying on You? Computer Scientists Reveal What’s Hiding in Your Apps
By Study Finds Research People love their smartphones, but did you know they could be spying on you? A recent study by computer scientists from…
Starting This Weekend Expect U.S. Flight Delays and Cancelations Due to Ongoing Aviation 5G Interference Debacle
By B.N. Frank Warnings about problems from 5G frequencies causing serious aviation interference issues have been ongoing for years not just the past several months…
America’s Two Largest Pension Funds Suffer Massive Third Party Data Breach
By Tyler Durden As if CalPERS didn’t have enough of a problem simply with incompetent portfolio management and an incessant need to play “catch up”…
Four Ways Criminals Could Use AI to Target More Victims
By Daniel Prince, Lancaster University Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI’s potential to cause the…
Several US Agencies Hit In Global Cyberattack Alongside Universities, Hospitals
By Tyler Durden On Thursday the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced that “several” US federal government agencies were hit in what’s being acknowledged…