A 49-year-old Russian national has been charged with carrying out a cyberattack on a local power plant, resulting in a widespread blackout in 38 villages in the Vologda region.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) cyber actors, also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear, have shifted their tactics to target cloud environments as organizations increasingly move to cloud-based infrastructure.
The British privacy watchdog has ordered a leisure center contractor, Serco Leisure, to stop using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning to track employees at 38 leisure facilities.
ThyssenKrupp, a major steel producer and industrial engineering firm, experienced a cyberattack on its Automotive division, leading to a forced shutdown of IT systems as part of the response and containment measures.
The education sector faces significant cybersecurity risks due to factors such as BYOD culture, vast student data troves, and resource scarcity, making strong cybersecurity measures crucial.
The number of reported health data breaches and HIPAA complaints has been increasing, posing a significant challenge for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights to keep up with their workload.
The tool can be used to assess the robustness of large language model (LLM) endpoints against various harm categories, such as fabrication, misuse, prohibited content, security harms, and privacy harms.
The settlement includes a $375,000 civil penalty, a review of vendor agreements, and the requirement to provide annual reports on potential sale or sharing of consumer information.
Water and wastewater systems need to enhance their cybersecurity measures to protect against potential cyberattacks due to vulnerabilities in their operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems.
The malicious packages contained scripts capable of stealing credentials from web browsers, downloading additional harmful scripts, and establishing connections to known North Korean threat actors.