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  1. Technology Causes “Digital Entropy” as Firms Struggle With Governance

    Increasingly complex regulations are stretching governance and compliance in organizations, warns the IAPP

  2. DDoS Attacks Double With Governments Most Targeted

    Distributed denial of service attacks continue to increase, with government the most targeted vertical

  3. Cyber-Attack on Payment Gateway Exposes 1.7 Million Credit Card Details

    A cyber-attack on Slim CD, which handles electronic payments for US and Canadian-based merchants, has potentially exposed the credit card details of 1.7 million people

  4. Man Charged in AI-Generated Music Fraud on Spotify and Apple Music

    A North Carolina resident made over $10m in unlawful royalty payments by producing hundreds of thousands of fake songs listened to by bots using AI

  5. Car Giant Avis Reveals Breach Impacted 300,000 Customers

    Rental hire company Avis has notified 300,000 customers of a data breach

  6. TfL Admits Some Services Are Down Following Cyber-Attack

    Transport for London has revealed several digital services are suspended after a cyber-attack last week

  7. Spyware Vendors' Nebulous Ecosystem Helps Them Evade Sanctions

    The secret web of at least 435 entities across 42 countries making up the spyware landscape facilitates unpunished security and human rights violations, the Atlantic Council found

  8. US and Allies Accuse Russian Military of Destructive Cyber-Attacks

    The joint government advisory highlighted the cyber activities of Unit 29155, which has launched destructive cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure globally

  9. PyPI Revival Hijack Puts Thousands of Applications at Risk

    Revival Hijack Python Package Index supply chain attack threatens 22,000 packages through malicious downloads

  10. Security Budgets Come Under Pressure as “Hypergrowth” Ends

    Despite rising threats researchers find a third of firms see flat or falling security budgets and hiring slows

  11. UK Signs Council of Europe AI Convention

    The first legally binding international treaty on AI was adopted by all 46 Council of Europe member states in May 2024

  12. Cisco Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Smart Licensing Utility

    Cisco has urged customers to apply software updates to fix the critical vulnerabilities, which could allow attackers to collect sensitive data or administer services

  13. Researcher Finds Unfixable Yet Tricky to Exploit Flaw in Yubikeys

    A security flaw exploiting side channel attacks means some Yubikeys can be cloned

  14. OnlyFans Hackers Targeted With Infostealer Malware

    Hackers interested in targeting OnlyFans users have themselves been singled out by an infostealing campaign

  15. Russian Blamed For Mass Disinformation Campaign Ahead of US Election

    The DoJ says Russia paid a US company $10m to post disinformation that attracted millions of views online

  16. US Government Set Out to Improve Internet Routing Security

    The US White House Office of the National Cyber Director proposes improving internet security by protecting the Border Gateway Protocol

  17. North Korea Targeting Crypto Industry, Says FBI

    US law enforcement is tracking aggressive social engineering attacks against cryptocurrency operations

  18. Red Teaming Tool Abused for Malware Deployment

    Cisco Talos has assessed that red teaming tool MacroPack is being abused by various threat actors in different geographies to deploy malware

  19. Clearview AI Fined €30.5m by Dutch Watchdog Over Illegal Data Collection

    The US-based facial recognition data company may even have to pay up to €5.1m in penalties for non-compliance

  20. Initial Access Brokers Target $2bn Revenue Companies

    Cyberint claims that initial access brokers target companies with average revenue of nearly $2bn

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