Dec 31, 2024 · The United States Treasury Department said it suffered a "major cybersecurity incident" that allowed suspected Chinese threat actors to remotely access some computers and unclassified documents. "On December 8, 2024, Treasury was notified by a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, that ...

Dec 27, 2024 · As workarounds and mitigations for unmanaged firewalls or those managed by Panorama, customers have the option of setting Log Severity to "none" for all configured DNS Security categories for each Anti-Spyware profile by navigating to Objects > Security Profiles > Anti-spyware > (select a profile) > DNS Policies > DNS Security.. For firewalls managed by Strata Cloud Manager (SCM), users can ...

Dec 23, 2024 · The 2025 cybersecurity landscape is increasingly complex, driven by sophisticated cyber threats, increased regulation, and rapidly evolving technology.

Dec 23, 2024 · However, evidence to the contrary has established that there have been several instances of Pegasus being misused by authoritarian regimes and other governments across the world to target activists, politicians, and journalists.. Apple, which filed a similar lawsuit against NSO Group in November 2021, has since sought to voluntarily dismiss the case on grounds that the market for commercial ...

Oct 16, 2024 · Hallucinations Leading to Legal Consequences - In another incident, Air Canada faced legal action when their AI chatbot provided incorrect information about refund policies. When a customer relied on the chatbot's response and subsequently filed a claim, Air Canada was held liable for the misleading information.

Ransomware attacks have reached an unprecedented scale in the healthcare sector, exposing vulnerabilities that put millions at risk. Recently, UnitedHealth revealed that 190 million Americans had their personal and healthcare data stolen during the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, a figure that nearly doubles the previously disclosed total.

Nov 27, 2024 · Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on what has been described as the first Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit designed for Linux systems. Dubbed Bootkitty by its creators who go by the name BlackCat, the bootkit is assessed to be a proof-of-concept (PoC) and there is no evidence that it has been put to use in real-world attacks.

Oct 11, 2024 · "The man advertised his service on his own Telegram channels and thematic communities, as well as on a world-famous IT resource, where he positioned himself as a project developer and found like-minded people," the agency said.. It also follows the sentencing of two individuals affiliated with a Russian threat group called Armageddon (aka Gamaredon) to 15 years in prison in absentia for ...

Aug 27, 2024 · It also said, "in the wild exploitation of CVE-2024-7965 [...] was reported after this release." That said, it's currently not clear if the flaw was weaponized as a zero-day prior to its disclosure last week.

Mar 24, 2024 · German authorities have announced the takedown of an illicit underground marketplace called Nemesis Market that peddled narcotics, stolen data, and various cybercrime services.. The Federal Criminal Police Office (aka Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) said it seized the digital infrastructure associated with the darknet service located in Germany and Lithuania and confiscated €94,000 ($102,107) in ...