Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation of stringent European Union data protection rules, the government’s privacy watchdog said Friday.
A 10-year-old Windows vulnerability is still being exploited in attacks to make executables appear legitimately signed, with the fix from Microsoft still “opt-in” after all these years. Even worse, the fix is removed after upgrading to Windows 11.
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered the new Cylance ransomware, which has already claimed several victims. Researchers noticed it early Friday morning, and further probing revealed that it is targeting Linux and Windows devices.
This new funding round will enable SCADAfence to continue scaling its global reach into new markets, increasing sales and support teams in key regions, and building stronger collaborative relationships with its strategic partners.
Dark Power is a relatively new ransomware written in the Nim programming language and launched in early February 2023. PayMe100USD is a new ransomware written in Python that was discovered in March 2023.
The company said the Series A financing was led by Rockefeller Asset Management through its Technology Ventures Group with equity investments from Uncorrelated Ventures, the Partnership Fund for New York City.
The flaw, described as a case of broken access control, impacts versions 3.11.6 and earlier. It was addressed by the plugin maintainers in version 3.11.7 released on March 22.
In a data breach notification letter sent yesterday to impacted individuals, the Canadian finance giant informs that hackers breached its systems in early December 2022 but did not detect the breach until February 13th, 2023.
Acoalition of 11 countries committed on Thursday to counter the misuse of commercial spyware, a step toward building an international agreement to curb technology deployed by authoritarian countries to spy on dissidents and journalists.
The leaked documents, referred to as The Vulkan Files, were obtained by a whistleblower and analyzed by Mandiant in collaboration with several major media outlets in Europe and the United States.