CrowdStrike made its artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity offering, Falcon Go, officially available on Amazon Business. This marks the first CrowdStrike offering on Amazon’s B2B store, providing a dedicated distribution channel for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to access protection against modern cyberthreats, the cybersecurity firm said...
A hacking group with reported ties to Russia has claimed credit for attacking ChatGPT. The reason? The generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s parent company’s support for Israel amid that country’s war against Hamas. The group, dubbed Anonymous Sudan, published a post on its Telegram page Wednesday (Nov....
A Russian-speaking hacking group reportedly accessed the email addresses of about 632,000 U.S. federal employees at the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice. The cyberattack, known as the MOVEit hack, happened May 28 and 29 and exploited vulnerabilities in the popular file-transfer tool MOVEit, Bloomberg reported Monday...
Imagine being able to train your defense systems on cyberattacks that haven’t even happened yet. Far from being farfetched, that reality is now fast becoming a necessity for today’s firms. The future of cybersecurity is increasingly being shaped by the use of generative adversarial networks...
Ransomware attacks have surged this year, despite efforts to curb them. As a result, experts are now reconsidering the idea of banning ransom payments altogether, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Oct. 25). Ransomware payments have reached nearly $500 million through September, marking a 50% increase compared to the same...
A report found that a major payment system cyberattack could cost $3 trillion. The report, “Illuminating cyber crime,” was published Wednesday (Oct. 18) by insurance marketplace Lloyd’s of London and the Cambridge Center for Risk Studies, which researches systemic threats. It said that even the...
The U.S. government is taking a stand against the growing threat of ransomware attacks by urging other countries to commit to not making ransom payments to hackers. The move comes ahead of an annual meeting in Washington, D.C., of over 45 nations amid a growing...
Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare have successfully defended against the largest-known denial-of-service attack on the internet, raising concerns about a new technique that could potentially cause widespread disruption. Denial-of-service attacks involve overwhelming targeted servers with a flood of bogus requests for data, rendering it impossible for legitimate web...
In recent months, a group of hackers known as “Scattered Spider” has been making headlines for their involvement in major cyberattacks. This group, known for its social engineering tactics, has been linked to breaches on major casino companies, including Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International. Now, they are suspected...
