A group of hacktivists claims to have breached the IT systems of Disney, and stolen a gigantic 1.1 terabytes worth of data from the entertainment giant's internal Slack messaging channels.
The hacking group, which calls itself NullBulge, posted on an underground hacking forum that it had hoped to postpone announcing the breach until it had accessed more information, "but our insider man got cold feet and kicked us out."
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Author: Graham Cluley
Despite first appearing earlier this year, RansomHub is already considered one of the most prolific ransomware groups in existence.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
What's RansomHub? Despite first appearing earlier this year, RansomHub is already considered one of the most prolific ransomware groups in existence. It operates a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, meaning that a central core of the group creates and maintains the ransomware code and infrastructure, and rents it out to other cybercriminals who act as affiliates. How has RansomHub become such a big deal so quickly? RansomHub undoubtedly benefited from the disruption caused to the LockBit gang by law enforcement in February 2024. An international operation against LockBit not only saw...
The US Justice Department, working in coordination with Canadian and Dutch authorities, has seized two domain names which it claims were being used by Russian-backed hackers to spread disinformation on social media.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The US Justice Department, working in coordination with Canadian and Dutch authorities, has seized two domain names which it claims were being used by Russian-backed hackers to spread disinformation on social media.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Execs at a health tech startup are sentenced to jail after a massive ad fraud, and a school is shaken after teachers are targeted via TikTok.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Execs at a health tech startup are sentenced to jail after a massive ad fraud, and a school is shaken after teachers are targeted via TikTok.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
In episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse. Graham inflicts his terrible Australian accent on Mark while explaining bot-on-bot crime, and Mark tells … Continue reading "The AI Fix #6: AI lobotomies, and bots scam scam bots"
A ransomware attack by the BlackSuit gang against South Africa's National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) has put lives at risk and created chaos for healthcare services across the country.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
OpenAI's ever-so-clever ChatGPT's software was doing something really-rather-stupid: storing users' chats on their Mac computers in plaintext.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.