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"British Library: Ransomware Recovery Could Take Months"One of the world’s largest libraries has recently confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack on October 28 and that it will take weeks or possibly months to fully recover.
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"Royal Mail to Spend £10m on Ransomware Remediation"Royal Mail has recently revealed a multimillion-pound cost attached to a serious ransomware breach it suffered earlier this year.
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"Unpatched Critical Vulnerabilities Open AI Models to Takeover"Researchers discovered nearly a dozen critical vulnerabilities in the infrastructure used by Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, along with three high- and two medium-severity bugs, which could put companies at risk as they rush to capitalize on AI.
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"Virginia Tech Opens World’s First Fully Automated AI and Cyberbiosecurity Water Lab"The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber for Water and Agriculture (ACWA) lab at Virginia Tech is the world's first to combine cyberbiosecurity and AI automation to research water security.
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"Children’s Tablet Has Malware and Exposes Kid’s Data, Researcher Finds"Alexis Hancock, who works at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), discovered that the Dragon Touch KidzPad Y88X, a children's tablet, had security and privacy flaws that could have risked her daughter's and other children's data.
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"Google To Distribute 100,000 Titan Security Keys to High-Risk Users"Google is distributing 100,000 more free pieces of security hardware to people in high-risk industries. Google's Titan Security Keys are a "second factor" that can be used after entering passwords.
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"Toyota Financial Services Attack Claimed by Medusa Ransomware"The Medusa ransomware gang claims to have been behind the disruptive cyberattack against Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the Japanese automakers' vehicle financing and leasing subsidiary.
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"9M Health Records Spilled by Transcription Firm"A cyberattack on the medical transcription service provider Perry Johnson & Associates (PJ&A) compromised the personal and health information of 9 million Americans.
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"Publicly Accessible Code Is Often Full of Credentials"According to a survey of 450,000 Python projects conducted by the security company GitGuardian, publicly accessible programming code still often contains credentials that can expose access to underlying databases or cloud services.
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"European Police Take Down $9m Vishing Gang"Police in Ukraine and Czechia recently claimed to have disrupted a multimillion-dollar fraud gang that called victims impersonating bank staff, using classic voice phishing (vishing) techniques.
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"Telemetry Gaps Leave Networks Vulnerable as Attackers Move Faster"According to Sophos, telemetry logs are missing in about 42 percent of the attack cases studied. In order to hide their tracks, cybercriminals have disabled or wiped out the telemetry in 82 percent of these cases.
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"Rackspace Ransomware Costs Soar to Nearly $12M"According to financial disclosures filed over the past year, Rackspace Technology has continued to face expenses and losses in the aftermath of last year's December ransomware attack on one of its hosted Microsoft Exchange servers.