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Another top US health provider sees millions of patient records stolen – here’s what we know
Kentucky-based healthcare provider Norton has confirmed that it has suffered a significant ransomware attack that may have put the data of millions of its patients at risk. In a filing to the Maine Attorney General on December 8, the healthcare giant said that 2.5 million individuals had been affected by…
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Exploitation of the internet and the mind: How cybercriminals operate
Half of UK SMEs have suffered a cyberattack in the past year, with 54% of those hit suffering financial losses as a result. In the majority of these cases, they were targeted with either ransomware or phishing, a frequently used vehicle for delivering malware. We’ve all heard about these online…
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Cyber attacks against key US infrastructure continue, but this time its China
Following a suspected recent Iranian cyberattack against a US water treatment facility, government officials are now alleging that the Chinese military has been targeting a number of water and power installations across the country. Transportation systems are among the apparent targets, with the assaults supposedly being carried out to develop…
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Obscure startup wins prestigious CES 2024 award — you’ve probably never heard of it, but Panmnesia is the company that could make ChatGPT 6 (or 7) times faster
The highly coveted Innovation Award at the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024 event in January has been snapped up by a Korean startup for its AI accelerator. Panmnesia has built its AI accelerator device on Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.0 technology, which allows an external memory pool to be…
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Amazon sues ecommerce fraud gang that stole millions in fake refunds
Amazon has taken legal action against an international fraud organization known as REKK, which the ecommerce platform says has stolen millions of dollars in products from stores through “systematic refund abuse.” The case names a total of 20 individuals associated with REKK from around the world, including the US, Canada,…
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A whole new kind of Linux malware has been found in the wild
A new type of Linux malware has been identified after going unnoticed for two years thanks to work by cybersecurity researchers from Group-IB. The newly uncovered Linux Remote Access Trojan (RAT), Krasue, was first registered on Virustotal, and has since been targeting primarily telecommunications companies in Thailand. Group-IB says that…
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