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Though Just as Expensive as Ever, Ransomware Attacks Appear To Be On Substantial Decline
In 2021, organizations were facing pretty good odds of experiencing a ransomware attack (64%). Those odds declined tremendously in 2022 (25%), but it’s not time to celebrate just yet.
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Is the Data Leak of 200 Million Twitter Profiles Real? Company Claims That It Was Gathered From “Public Sources”
Twitter’s statement on the data leak (or lack thereof) said only that the company had seen no evidence of a breach of its internal systems and that the prior API scraping issue was not the source of the information.
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Crypto Crimes Are Bringing In More Money Than Ever With $20 Billion in 2022
Crypto crimes became even more lucrative in 2022 with a jump to $20 billion even though that share of illicit activity only increased very slightly and stayed far below historic highs.
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Could Russian Cyber Attacks Be Viewed as War Crimes? Ukraine Puts Together a Case for the UN
The core of Ukraine’s war crime argument is that Russian cyber attacks have directly accompanied shellings and bombings of critical infrastructure companies, creating real world damage that impacts civilians.
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ChatGPT Malware Is at a Basic Level, but Criminals Are Already Concocting Plans for It
The simplicity of the malware it generates reflects the relatively early and basic state of ChatGPT, but the early criminal activity indicates what direction things may develop in as these tools become more advanced and capable.
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Time To Rotate Secrets as Major CI/CD Firm CircleCI Hit by Serious Security Breach
CircleCI customers have been advised to rotate secrets as a major security breach appears to have given attackers access to a broad variety of authentication credentials.
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Slack Security Breach: External GitHub Repositories Compromised, Private Source Code Taken
It is not clear exactly what sort of source code was taken from the GitHub repositories during the security breach, but Slack says that it was not part of the primary codebase.
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Low Confidence in Metaverse Security Even as Companies Forge Ahead With New Business Strategies
Organizations are hoping that the government will be the first line of metaverse security, with 87% saying that they want to see strong and early regulation. More than half plan to provide staff with specialized training.
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“Serious” Ransomware Attack on The Guardian Hits Kings Place Offices, VPNs and WiFi Reportedly Impacted
While it did not appear to limit the online or offline publication, a ransomware attack that The Guardian characterized as “serious” hit company offices at Kings Place and reportedly impacted the office WiFi, VPN, and business systems.
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Okta GitHub Repositories Hacked, Unknown Quantity of Source Code Stolen
Another breach of GitHub repositories is causing another big problem for authentication services provider Okta. Client login information does not appear to have been compromised in the breach, but the theft of some amount of source code has raised some concerns about future developments.