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Tony Glover
Analysis cybercrime Gen Z
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Cybercriminals are now grooming US and UK teens

By adopting such Nineteenth-Century criminal grooming methods to the online world of the Twenty-First Century, today’s threat actors are effectively criminalizing an entire generation not to pick pockets but to rifle fat online crypto wallets instead. When the media reports that a nineteen-year-old hacker has been arrested at his parent’s house for a major hack, such as the one that recently occurred at Transport for London (TfL), the sinister cybercriminals who may have orchestrated the cyber-attack doubtless breathe a sigh of relief.

“What the police should be asking in a case like is who has been grooming the teenage hacker and for how many years?” says Fraser Hay, CEO and co-founder of one-year-old UK start-up The Hacking Games, whose aim is to use online gaming, TV and other media to encourage teenagers away from a life of online crime and towards careers in ethical hacking.

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Cybersecurity Events News
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Cyber gets physical at Expo ‘24

Chief executives frequently vie with one another for the spotlight when delivering key speeches at major conferences. But the most-talked-about address of the day, given to a packed auditorium at the International Cyber Expo in London’s Olympia showground, forbade any recording or photographing of his talk. He also insisted he be referred to only as “Paul F”.

“Paul F”’s bashfulness became understandable when he explained that the UK’s National Protective Security Authority (NPSA), where he is head of physical security, is now part of Britain’s secret intelligence service MI5. His talk neatly summed up the central theme of the show by providing evidence that the difference between cybercrime and physical crime has become blurred to the point of invisibility. He asked the very relevant question of whether a small drone spying into a City office using a telescopic lens and an 8k camera to read the staff’s log-in details through the window is a physical or a cyber-crime.

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Tony Glover
cybercrime Geopolitics News
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Lebanon pager attack signals new era in cyber warfare

As the whole world is now aware, Beirut was thrown into chaos yesterday by 5,000 exploding weaponized pagers, leaving 900 people dead and a further 300 in critical condition. Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, sustained injuries to his face and hand.

Lebanon-based Islamist and paramilitary group Hezbollah claims that Israel was responsible. If so, then yesterday afternoon’s event in Beirut will have global repercussions for cyber warfare and targeted cyber-attacks. The idea of weaponizing communications devices is hardly new. Over a decade ago, for example, former US Vice President Dick Cheney disabled a function that allowed the pacemaker regulating his heart to be administered wirelessly. Because he believed terrorists might hack the device to deliver a fatal shock. Israel has also been previously accused of killing Hamas terrorists with booby-trapped cellphones.

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Tony Glover
Big Tech European Union News
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Musk rattles skeletons in Brussels’ cupboard

The European Union (EU) suffered a major setback this week in its drive to recreate cyberspace in its own image. In a surprising turnaround, the EU appears to have caved into threats by X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk to reveal “secret deals” offered by the EU to himself and other US-based global social network platforms.

Until Monday, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton appeared to be preparing for a legal cage fight with Musk, a man who is tipped to become the world’s first trillionaire, over the issue of free speech and Musk’s refusal to censor political debate on X in line with Brussels’ wishes. Breton’s shock resignation yesterday is now being seen by many as evidence of the truth behind Musk’s allegations.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino immediately referred to the resignation of European Union commissioner Thierry Breton as “a good day for free speech.”

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Tony Glover
Government News Russia
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London’s transport cyber-breach is spreading fast

A cyber-attack on the London transport system earlier this month was far more serious than initially reported and is rapidly spreading across the UK. It is also now ringing loud alarm bells on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly in light of the upcoming US elections in November.

Transport for London (TfL) has now admitted that over 5,000 customers’ personal details and, in many cases, their financial details have been stolen. TfL added that the breach is also rapidly starting to affect services outside London.

The London Underground, the UK capital’s vast underground rail network, like most European metros, has a touchpad automatic electronic payment system using prepaid plastic cards. London also allows travelers simply to use their visa or MasterCard on the touchpads at the London underground barriers. This means that organizations such as TfL have become repositories of millions of commuters’ financial details, making them a tempting target for small-time cyber crooks.

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Tony Glover
European Union News Spyware
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EU spyware scandal spreads

This week, Poland’s Supreme Court quashed an ongoing probe into spyware abuses allegedly conducted by its own government – claiming it to be “unconstitutional”. Comprehensive new research, published earlier this month by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research (DFR) Labs, also now shows that government abuse of spyware is now widespread across the European Union (EU).

The findings of DFR Labs’ research provide a truly damning description of the widespread abuse of spyware by governments across Europe, accusing the EU of effectively turning a blind eye to the widespread abuse of its citizens’ rights despite being made aware of the widespread abuses at least two years ago. In 2022, the European Parliament (EP), frustrated by the Commission’s reluctance to tackle the growing scandal, established the PEGA Committee to investigate the misuse of surveillance spyware. 

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Tony Glover
AI Cyber Budget News
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Cost of AI could rise tenfold – warns Gartner

Gartner issued a stern warning this week to organizations across all sectors that the cost of introducing artificial intelligence (AI) to the workplace could easily balloon by 500 -1,000 percent.

Speaking at Gartner’s flagship Symposium event in Australia, VP analyst Mary Mesaglio said: “Factors contributing to these inflated costs include vendor price increases and neglecting the expense of utilizing cloud-based resources.”

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Tony Glover
Breaking News News Surveillance
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Brussels plots mass EU digital surveillance

While the world’s attention is focused on the arrest of Telegram owner, Pavel Durov, and Brazil’s decision to ban Elon Musk’s X platform ( formerly Twitter), the European Union (EU) Council in Brussels is hoping to quietly greenlight the EU’s proposed controversial “Chat Control” legislation.

On Thursday, the EU is due to vote on planned legislation intended to introduce mass digital surveillance by means of fully automated real-time monitoring of messaging and chats, marking the end of private digital correspondence. Ostensibly, the proposal aims to prevent the online dissemination of child sexual abuse material. But there are growing concerns that the controversial new ruling will extend far beyond arresting purveyors of child porn and be used for the full-scale state-monitoring of personal and business communications in Europe and beyond.

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Tony Glover
Arrest Breaking News News
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Telegram chief arrested in Paris

Speculation is today mounting concerning the arrest of the popular encrypted messaging app Telegram head and founder, Pavel Durov, at Le Bourget airport north of Paris on Saturday evening. The arrest has been widely reported in France, although the authorities have yet to issue a full statement.

 In the past, the French president. Emmanuel Macron and his team have been enthusiastic users of Telegram, using it to orchestrate their political strategies. But Durov’s arrest on Saturday is now being seen as part of an attempt by the UK and the European Union to curtail the reach and influence of largely unregulated communications platforms such as Telegram and X (formerly Twitter). This theory is born out of sources close to the situation, who believe that Durov will face charges of complicity in drug trafficking, crimes against children, and fraud – all allegedly stemming from a lack of moderation controls on Telegram.

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Tony Glover
AI Analysis European Union
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EU AI Act to act as a template for other regions

The European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, which came into effect earlier this month, is now set to act as a template for other regions, such as the US. The American government has already drafted an AI Bill of Rights, which aims to create a similar framework regulating AI.

However, while governments are rightly concerned about the personal privacy aspect of the universal adoption of AI, some have a dangerously bullish view of the new technology’s potential. Despite a deluge of hilarious howlers, such as Google’s AI-driven images of African Vikings and American founding fathers, politicians anxious not to be left behind in the tech race swallowed Silicon Valley’s AI hype hook, line, and sinker.

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Tony Glover
AI Cybersecurity Events deepfake News
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Deepfakes set to deceive at DEF CON

It looks as if deepfakes will be the hot topic at the big international hacker conference DEF CON in Las Vegas next week, just as they took center stage at InfoSecurity Europe in London in June.

Visitors to DEF CON’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) village will be encouraged to create their own highly professional deepfake videos of fellow conference attendees by cybersecurity company Bishop Fox’s red team. The purpose is to educate conference goers about the growing dangers now posed to all organizations by deepfake calls purporting to come from senior executives or highly-trusted members of staff.

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Tony Glover
cybercrime News Supply Chain
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Cyber-piracy on the high seas

Escalating geopolitical instability in the South China Seas and The Red Sea are being seen as the root cause behind a rapid rise in cyber-attacks on commercial shipping, as well as a sharp increase in cyber-assisted piracy.

“The risk has escalated significantly in the past year due to heightened geopolitical tensions and increased cyber capabilities of threat actors…The average cost per data breach now exceeds $545,000 for a shipping organization,” says Freight Right Global Logistics CEO Robert Khachatryan.

According to C. Todd Doss, Senior Managing Director at Guidepost Solutions: “Over the past year, these risks have escalated notably. Reports indicate that cyber-attacks on maritime infrastructure and vessels increased by over 20% in 2023 compared to the previous year .”

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Tony Glover
Analysis cybercrime Vulnerability
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Exclusive: CrowdStrike crash is only the beginning…

The famous “blue screen of death,” witnessed with horror by 8.5 million Microsoft Windows users worldwide as a result of the ongoing CrowdStrike outage, may soon become a far more familiar sight across a wide range of sectors.

While there is no evidence that the widespread Microsoft Windows outage caused by the CrowdStrike upgrade was anything but accidental, many in the cybersecurity industry are seeing the past week’s experience as a dummy run for a full-fledged cyber-attack aimed at crippling critical infrastructure. As the current media pictures of people sleeping in airports testify, some sectors appear to be faring better than others.

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Tony Glover
Analysis Cyber Espionage Geopolitics
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Exclusive: Hostile nations ramp up attacks on US infrastructure

Recent reports that ransomware attacks on industrial organizations increased by over 50 percent in 2023 represent only “the tip of the iceberg.” According to operational technology (OT) cybersecurity company IXDen, critical infrastructure across the US is being attacked at unprecedented levels.

“The vast majority of cyber breaches of critical infrastructure such as water and power facilities go unreported, although a precise figure is impossible to gauge. Those that are reported in the media are only the tip of the iceberg. OT attacks on private businesses are not reported at all, and in public organizations, they are rarely reported,” says IXDen CEO and Co-Founder Zion Harel.

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Tony Glover
AI Analysis cybercrime
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Exclusive: Expanding AI data centers have become tempting targets

Big Tech’s rapidly-expanding server farms are becoming increasingly tempting targets for ransomware gangs. In their Gadarene rush to be first with AI-based services, companies such as Google and Microsoft are not only abandoning any previous pretences about reducing their greenhouse emissions and energy consumption, they are also inadvertently building increasingly tempting targets for organized cybercriminals and nation-state threat actors.

The online industry’s vast data centers and server farms run on similar operational technology (OT) systems to other industrial facilities. Originally designed to run offline, these systems are notoriously difficult to secure, particularly when they need to interface with newer information technology (IT) systems.

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Tony Glover
AI Analysis deepfake
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Exclusive: Deepfakes being used to manipulate share prices

Cash-rich cybercriminals are learning that the easiest way to make money on the stock markets while laundering cash at the same time is to use deepfake videos to impact share prices, albeit temporarily.

According to Tim Grieveson, Senior Vice President of Global Cyber Risk, BitSight: “Using video and audio deepfakes to manipulate share prices for financial gain is definitely happening, but is something no one is currently talking about.”

“Using a deepfake to announce a takeover could, for instance, drive up a stock in which the threat actor owns shares. Alternatively, a negative announcement such as a dire profits warning could be used to lower the share price so that the threat actor could buy the shares at a knock-down price, only to sell them again when the profits warning was seen to be fake” adds Grieveson.

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Tony Glover
Analysis Banking Threats cybercrime
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Exclusive: Banks face a growing physical security threat

Banks, traditionally the main target for cybercriminal groups, are now being attacked not only by new online hacking techniques but also by a growing range of physical hacking tools and techniques. While financial institutions have high levels of cybersecurity and strong physical security, they currently face a growing threat from combined physical and digital assaults.

“Physical security and cybersecurity convergence in the business environment. A favorite weapon in the hacker arsenal is the Flipper Zero, an inexpensive pocketable device that enables you to hack into nearby smartphones and IT systems,” says Tim Grieveson, Senior Vice President of Global Cyber Risk, BitSight.

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Tony Glover
Breaking News Cybersecurity Events News
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InfoSecurity Europe 2024 – Was It All Worth It?

As the stands were being packed away on the show floor at the end of the InfoSecurity Europe 2024 conference in London this week (June 4-6), it was time for exhibitors and attendees to take stock of the three-day event. The mood among exhibitors as they packed everything away in cardboard boxes was distinctly upbeat compared to last year’s event, which was still overshadowed by two long years of lockdown.

“It was great to be among people two years post-pandemic and to be able to see the whites of their eyes and the smiles on their faces. In an industry as serious as cybersecurity, it is also important to have face-to-face moments of levity and bonhomie,” said Matt Butterworth, senior account manager at data erasure specialist Blancco Technologies.

Neal Smyth, of managed cloud and cybersecurity company Ekco, commented: “Our presentation was oversubscribed with standing-room only. As well as generating leads, we had more customers coming to the stand this year. For example, a representative of a  government department simply turned up and asked us to tender. I also hear that other exhibitors were seeing more potential customers attending InfoSecurity this year.”

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Breaking News Cybersecurity Events News
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Deepfakes dominate InfoSecurity Europe 2024

InfoSecurity Europe, widely acknowledged as the chief global challenger to RSA in the US, kicked off with a Keynote speech and panel discussion on “Mapping the Deepfake Landscape.” Broadcaster and researcher Henry Adjer quoted numerous examples of the increasing sophistication of malicious deepfakes.

 The most interesting example of a deepfake was a false image purporting to show an explosion near the Pentagon shared by multiple verified Twitter accounts last year, resulting in a brief dip in the value of the New York Stock Exchange.

 “Threat actors are starting to explore the possibility of using deepfakes to move share prices with fake podcasts and video interviews with company C-suite executives of listed companies. Even if the fake is quickly spotted and squashed and the company’s shares are only impacted for 10 minutes, the threat actor can make a huge profit by speculating on the movement of a specific stock,” says Tim Grieveson, senior vice president of global cyber risk at cybersecurity firm BitSight, which in 2021 received £250 million funding from financial services giant Moody’s.

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Tony Glover
Analysis cybercrime
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FBI takes down BreachForums -again!

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the criminal hacking forum BreachForums after taking down its website last week. This follows the announcement in February of the seizure of the LockBit ransomware gang’s extortion website.

“From June 2023 until May 2024, BreachForums (hosted at breachforums.st/.cx/.is/.vc and run by ShinyHunters) was operating as a clear-net marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade contraband, including stolen access devices, means of identification, hacking tools, breached databases, and other illegal services,” says an FBI advisory.

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Tony Glover
Healthcare News
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Cyber gangs hold healthcare ransom

Cybercriminal groups have now completely abandoned any pretense that theirs are basically victimless crimes by attacking the healthcare sector with increasing ruthlessness. Healthcare, once said to be off limits to ‘responsible’ cyber criminals, is now the subject of an urgent warning from the Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) of the US Department of Health and Human Services. 

 “HC3 has recently observed threat actors employing advanced social engineering tactics to target IT help desks in the health sector and gain initial access to target organizations,” the warning states. 

Tactics include contacting an organization’s IT help desk with phone calls from a familiar area code and claiming to be an employee in a financial role.

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Tony Glover
Automotive China News
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Joe Biden to cripple China’s car industry

US President Joe Biden has dealt a potentially devastating blow to China’s tottering economy by accusing China’s auto industry of posing a serious cyber risk to US national security. An impassioned speech from the President concerning the cyber threat posed by China comes only weeks after a similar warning from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning China’s plans to launch a cyber-attack on US national infrastructure.

“China is determined to dominate the future of the auto market, including by using unfair practices.  China’s policies could flood our market with its vehicles, posing risks to our national security. I’m not going to let that happen on my watch,” promises the President.

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Tony Glover
Analysis Digital Behavior Gen Z
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Gen Z’ers ditch smartphone services

Silicon Valley has a new problem – a generation that is turning off its digital lifestyle and ditching its smartphones. Gen Z, young people born between 1997 and 2012, have given Silicon Valley’s meticulously planned digital future for humanity a firm thumbs down.

Fifty percent of  Gen Z’ers are interested in taking a break from their smartphones, while only 20 percent of Boomers, people born from 1946 to 1964, want a break, according to a survey from web-hosting company Squarespace. Last year, smartphone sales shipments dipped by around 70 million units, hitting the lowest shipment level in a decade, driven by falling sales in North America and China. At the same time, the new generation is buying old-school flip phones, nicknamed ‘dumbphones’, in preference to the latest Apple smartphones.

According to market researcher Counterpoint Research: “Feature phones in the US market have made a resurgence as Gen Z and millennials are advocating for digital detoxes due to the mental health concerns brought on by smartphones and social media…Given the relatively cheap price point of feature phones ($20-$50 with a prepaid carrier and $50-$100 unlocked), more people are trying out these devices and sharing their experiences on social media.”.

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Tony Glover
Analysis European Union Government
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Corruption allegations overshadow EU cyber rulings

The European Union (EU) has adopted its first Cybersecurity Certificate scheme to boost cybersecurity in products and services sold within the EU states, amid ongoing investigations of alleged corruption in Brussels.

The European Cybersecurity Scheme on Common Criteria (EUCC) drafted by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) was adopted on Wednesday as the first scheme within the EU cybersecurity certification framework. ENISA is also already developing two additional cybersecurity certification schemes: EUCS on cloud services and EU5G on 5G security.

But the announcement coincided with another press release published by the EU on the same day. On Wednesday, Jan 31st, 2024, the Committee on Civil Liberties also endorsed the draft negotiating mandate for stronger rules against corrupt decision-makers across all levels in the EU. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) amended the draft anti-corruption provisions to cover “any person entrusted with tasks of public interest or in charge of a public service”, with top EU decision-makers, European Commissioners, the President of the European Council and MEPs to be added to the category of “high-level officials” who will now be subjected to more severe rules than in the past.

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Tony Glover
Geopolitics Malicious Bots News
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Geopolitical tensions fuel botnet boom

Recent weeks have seen an exponential rise in malicious botnets performing reconnaissance scanning to scout out victims. According to researchers at cybersecurity firm Netscout, the number of potentially compromised devices rose from around 10,000 to roughly 144,000 over December, with no sign of the trend letting up.

“The trend continued into the new year, with the largest spikes occurring on January 5 and 6, eclipsing one million distinct devices. The levels reached an unprecedented 1,294,416 on the 5th,” reports Netscout.

The Netscout researchers say that this increased malicious scanning has been isolated to five key countries: The United States, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Russia. All have seen a rise in attackers using cheap or free cloud and hosting servers to create botnet launch pads.

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Tony Glover
Climate Hacktivism News
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‘Hacktivists’ target environmental services

Politically-motivated hacking, known as ‘hacktivism’, is now on the rise across large sections of the globe. Politically motivated groups are increasingly attacking their enemies with primitive but effective distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which involve overwhelming the target’s servers with vast volumes of internet traffic.

But, according to cybersecurity firm Cloudflare’s DDoS Threat Report, the organizations being targeted most are environmental agencies pursuing green agendas such as Net Zero. While Cloudflare reported an overall increase of 117 percent in DDoS attacks around Black Friday and the holiday season, DDoS attacks on environmental agencies have soared over sixty-thousand-fold over the same period.

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Tony Glover
Data Leak Finance News
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FNF hack exposes 1.3m customer details

US real estate financial services fat cat, Fidelity National Financial (FNF), has revealed details of a cybersecurity breach that occurred in November, exposing the details of 1.3 million customers. An updated filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims the attack, which occurred on November 19, 2023, was detected early on and successfully contained.

But despite FNF’s best efforts, over a million customers will wonder if the threat actors behind the breach also believe that their attack has been successfully “contained.” The nature of their target suggests otherwise. A Fortune 500 company, FNF is one of the largest companies of its kind in the US, with an annual revenue of over $10 billion, a market capitalization of $13.3 billion, and a staff of over 23,000 people.

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Tony Glover
Breaking News Cryptocurrency News
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Blockchains lose $1.8 billion to cybercrime

Web 3.0, the blockchain version of the traditional internet that hosts decentralized blockchain crypto-currencies, lost over US$1.8 billion in 2023 to cybercrime.

Newly released findings from cybersecurity firm Certik’s latest Hack3D Annual Report cast a pall over the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s much-anticipated approval of up to a dozen Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds) on Wednesday. It will also cast a long shadow over the hoped-for institutional acceptance of crypto-currencies by influential financial entities, including Swift, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). In the second half of last year, the SEC scrutinized a series of proposals, notably extending review periods for Bitcoin ETF applications from major firms like BlackRock, ARK, and Fidelity.

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Tony Glover
China Energy Sector News Russia
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Nuclear facility reportedly hacked by Russia and China

In what is an urgent and stark warning to nuclear facilities around the world, UK nuclear facility Sellafield, formerly called Windscale, is reported to have been hacked by groups linked to China and Russia. The 70-year-old sprawling six-square-kilometre facility, located on the North-West coast of England, holds the planet’s largest store of plutonium as a result of processing nuclear waste from decades of atomic power generation and weapons programs.

The UK authorities do not know exactly when the hack originally occurred, according to The Guardian newspaper, although breaches are said to have been detected as long ago as 2015, when sleeper malware, used to attack systems remotely and at will over a long period, was found to have been embedded. In what amounts to a national scandal for the UK, it is still not yet known if the malware has actually been eradicated.

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Analysis Cloud Security Cyber Espionage
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Storm gathers over the cloud

News of the mass exploitation of ownCloud customers as a result of a zero-day vulnerability follows revelations earlier this month of a critical security vulnerability in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.

Reports of gaping security flaws in cloud services come at a bad time for cloud service providers in general and Microsoft in particular. The Seattle-based computing giant is currently doing its utmost to persuade the US, UK, and Australian governments that its Azure Government Cloud is the best way for the AUKUS trio to securely update cross-border information and enhance mutual collaboration. This might prove problematic for Microsoft, whose Azure platform was recently proven to have a  critical vulnerability, and some of whose government clients suffered a series of serious breaches earlier this year.

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Tony Glover
AI Analysis cybercrime
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AI “overrated and overhyped” say cybercriminals

The verdict on artificial intelligence (AI) from the real experts is finally in; professional cybercriminal fraternities have judged AI to be “overrated, overhyped and redundant,” according to fresh research from cybersecurity firm Sophos.

It has, hitherto, been accepted wisdom in the cybersecurity industry that cybercriminals, free from any regulatory authority or moral scruples, were among the first to harness the awesome power of AI to create bespoke and virtually unstoppable malware. However, having infiltrated the Dark Web forums where top professional cybercriminals discuss their trade, Sophos reports that the cybercrime sector has thoroughly tested the capabilities of AI and found it wanting.

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News ransomware SEC
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Ransomware gang turns SEC informant

When a top mob boss turns his co-criminals over to the authorities, the US Federal Bureau of Information labels him a ‘stool pigeon.’ Similarly, the AlphaV ransomware gang is turning informer, not on its rivals but on its victims. In what is a likely portent of things to come, the gang has had the nerve to inform on MeridianLink (MLNK) to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for being slow to report a ransomware attack that they themselves had initiated earlier in the month.

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Tony Glover
AI Government News
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United States to regulate AI

US President Joe Biden has issued an executive order aimed at regulating artificial intelligence (AI), urging Congress to pass the necessary legislation as swiftly as possible. The announcement was made only 48 hours before tomorrow’s Global AI Summit in the UK, which US Vice President Kamala Harris will attend. The push to swiftly legislate indicates that the threat of AI is being taken seriously globally, with governments taking a coordinated approach. A mass of legislation and backroom deals with IT companies is surely set to follow.

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Analysis cybercrime Healthcare
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Unknown threat actor targets the US Red Cross

The cyber-war just got dirtier. A year or two back, an age in cyber-years, even the most ruthless cyber-gangs avoided attacking medical facilities to create a better public image in the eyes of the hacker community. Their stance has weakened somewhat since then, with attacks on the health sector becoming more common. But a recent attack on the US Red Cross is unusual enough to ring alarm bells outside the cybersecurity community.

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Tony Glover
Cyber Espionage Ethiopia News
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US-China cyber-war reaches Ethiopia

The news of the arrest of an IT administrator at the US Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research for allegedly stealing classified defense documents and delivering them to a foreign power is sending shock waves across government departments. There are also indications that China, currently known to be conducting a long-standing cyber-espionage campaign against the US, may be involved behind the scenes.

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