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Hundreds of organizations — including Rite Aid, Frontier Communications, Christie's, and Planned Parenthood of Montana — have already been compromised by the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service operation less than a year after its emergence after enlisting affiliates of the ALPHV/BlackCat and LockBit ransomware gangs, which had been dismantled earlier this year, according to The Register.

Malicious job offers purporting to be from widely known companies have been leveraged by threat actors to facilitate the distribution of cryptocurrency-stealing malware, reports Cybernews.

Rhode Island had some files from its Deloitte-managed public benefits computer system RIBridges leaked following a Brain Cipher ransomware attack earlier this month, according to The Associated Press.

AI tools will enable significant productivity and efficiency benefits for organizations in the coming year, but they also will exacerbate privacy, governance, and security risks.

While most of us are preparing the switch to a new year (If it&#x27s already the case for you: Happy New Year!), Attackers never stop and implement always new tricks to defeat our security controls. For a long time now, we have been flooded by sextortion emails. This is a kind of blackmail where someone threatens to share explicit images or videos unless the victim meets their demands. Even today, I receive regularly some of them.