ZDNET reports that artificial intelligence has been believed by 85% of U.S. private and public sector employees to be associated with more advanced cyberattacks, while 78% expressed worry regarding AI exploitation in cyberattacks.
Shortcomings of updated US critical infrastructure defense policy evaluated
While the Biden administration has tweaked an Obama-era critical infrastructure defense policy to reflect the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, such an update's failure to expand the scope of critical infrastructure to include cloud computing...
Major U.S. nonprofit healthcare provider MedStar had the personal data of 183,000 patients compromised following a months-long data breach last year, according to Cybernews.
Widespread RCE compromise likely with critical TinyProxy bug
Fifty-seven percent of more than 90,000 internet-exposed hosts continue to run TinyProxy instances unpatched against the critical use-after-free vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49606, which could be leveraged to facilitate remote code execution...
Officials at the City of Wichita in Kansas have confirmed that the city's IT systems were impacted by a ransomware attack on Sunday that prompted the immediate shutdown of its computer network to mitigate risk, BleepingComputer reports.
Dozens of organizations worldwide claimed to be compromised by LockBit
Cybernews reports that ransomware operation LockBit has laid claim on attacking major German telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom and nearly five dozen other organizations worldwide in a new post on its dark web site.