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Law enforcement seizes KillSec’s site, three arrested, including alleged teen leader
A 16 year-old arrested as the leader of a ransomware gang? The news had experienced cybersecurity professionals shaking their heads and sighing in chat rooms. The Register reports: Police suspect a 16-year-old was the main operator of KillSec, a ransomware group linked to around 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide. Authorities announced on Thursday that an international […]
OpenAI has notified over 100 organizations about its own AI agents; California subpoenas it
The Register reports that the California Attorney General has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into the AI lab’s models escaping their testing environments and interacting with or potentially altering other entities’ systems. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s press release doesn’t reveal exactly what information the investigative demand requires OpenAI to produce. NotebookCheck reports that by […]
Iranian accused of hacking American universities extradited from Montenegro
Once again, the United States’ best chance of catching some criminals is to hope they travel to a country that will extradite them to us. The Record reports: An Iranian national accused by the U.S. of taking part in dozens of breaches involving the theft of academic data and intellectual property has been extradited from […]
ShinyHunters Says They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data and Never Intended To
404 Media continued its excellent reporting on the ShinyHunters attack that compromised the FBI job portal and exfiltrated sensitive information on intelligence personnel and others. The hackers behind the massive FBI breach told 404 Media on Monday they do not intend to publish the data. The breach, in which the hackers stole personal information on […]
Pentagon breach exposed sensitive data on nearly 3 million people
ABC News reports that a breach of the Pentagon’s personnel database exposed sensitive information, including Social Security numbers and details about the jobs they held: The breach affected 2.76 million living people and another 294,000 who are deceased, the official said. The scope and sensitivity of the exposed information could raise national security concerns, particularly […]
LabCorp settles suit by state attorneys general for $2.2 million
In June, LabCorp settled a class action lawsuit over the 2018 American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) breach for $35 million. Now it has settled charges by state attorneys general stemming from the same incident. Bank Info Security reports: LabCorp has agreed to pay $2.2 million and improve its data security and vendor risk management practices […]
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
Would you fall for this? And if you did, how long would it take your firm to recognize it? The Register reports: You work in your company’s human resources department and use HR software to check employee information, benefits, and payroll. So, when you see a downloadable Windows version promising a faster alternative to the […]
OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue
The New York Times reports that OpenAI went rogue – again. OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge, according to security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes. The incidents involving […]