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FBI says scammers are targeting US executives with fake BianLian ransom notes

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The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang using fake ransom notes sent to U.S. corporate executives. The fake ransom notes, first reported by U.S. cybersecurity company GuidePoint Security, claim that hackers have gained access to an organization’s network to steal sensitive data, and threaten to publish the stolen data unless […]

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Anthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ some systems

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The launch of Anthropic’s coding tool, Claude Code, is off to a rocky start. According to reports on GitHub, Claude Code’s auto-update function contained buggy commands that rendered some workstations unstable and broken. When Claude Code was installed at the “root” or “superuser” levels — permissions that give programs the ability to make operating system-level

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Hacked health firm HCRG demanded journalist ‘take down’ data breach reporting, citing UK court order

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A U.S.-based independent cybersecurity journalist has declined to comply with a U.K. court-ordered injunction that was sought following their reporting on a recent cyberattack at U.K. private healthcare giant HCRG. Law firm Pinsent Masons, which served the February 28 court order on behalf of HCRG, demanded that DataBreaches.net “take down” two articles that referenced the

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Russian crypto exchange Garantex seized by law enforcement operation

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The U.S. Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has taken down and seized the website of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with darknet markets and ransomware hackers.  On Thursday, the official Garantex website was replaced with a notice saying the exchange’s domain has been seized by

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Armis buys Otorio for $120M to beef up cybersecurity in physical spaces

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More consolidation is playing out in the security industry as platform players scoop up technology to give them deeper expertise in growing business areas. Thursday, Armis, a $4.2 billion specialist in cyber exposure management, said it would be acquiring Otorio, a specialist in securing industrial and physical environments.  Terms of the deal are not being

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Crogl, armed with $30M, takes the wraps off a new AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts

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AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant for cybersecurity researchers to help them analyse thousands of daily network alerts to find and fix actual security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy

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Catalan court says NSO Group executives can be charged in spyware investigation

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A Barcelona court ruled that the co-founders of spyware maker NSO Group, Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, and former executive of two affiliate companies Yuval Somekh, can be indicted as part of an investigation into the alleged hacking of Catalan lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde. Barcelona-based human rights nonprofit Iridia, which filed the criminal complaint,

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Former NSA official says federal worker cuts will have ‘devastating impact’ on cyber and national security

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Former top U.S. cybersecurity official Rob Joyce told lawmakers on Wednesday that cuts to federal probationary employees will have a “devastating impact” on U.S. national security. Joyce, who was the director of cybersecurity for the National Security Agency until retiring in 2024, was providing testimony to the U.S. House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party,

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Justice Department charges Chinese hackers-for-hire linked to Treasury breach

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The Department of Justice has announced criminal charges against 12 Chinese government-linked hackers who are accused of hacking over 100 American organizations, including the U.S. Treasury, over the course of a decade. The charged individuals all played a “key role” in China’s hacker-for-hire ecosystem, a senior DOJ official said on a background call with reporters,

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Broadcom urges VMware customers to patch ‘emergency’ zero-day bugs under active exploitation

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U.S. technology giant Broadcom is warning that a trio of VMware vulnerabilities are being actively exploited by malicious hackers to compromise the networks of its corporate customers.  The three vulnerabilities — collectively dubbed “ESXicape” by one security researcher — affect VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, which are widely-used software hypervisor products that allow multiple virtual

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