Cybersecurity News
Artificial Intelligence: Policy alignment between the public and private sectors
According to a global EY survey, there are significant differences in the public and private sector about how they perceive the future of Artificial Intelligence systems in terms of ethics, governance, privacy, and regulatory issues. The report, Bridging AI’s trust gaps, which has been carried out in collaboration with The
COVID-19 vaccine attacks have increased by 26%
There has been a 26% increase in phishing attacks and BECs in just three months as they are all related to COVID-19 vaccines. Between October 2020 and January 2021, researchers found that COVID-19-related spear-phishing attacks increased by 12% after Pfizer and Moderna announced vaccines in November 2020, and the number
Russia’s infamous Maza cybercrime forum attacked
Russia’s largest cybercrime forum has been breached following a barrage of attacks targeting mainly Russian-speaking hacking forums. Data from Maza members, also known as Mazafuka, was leaked on March 3 by Flashpoint researchers. Maza has been operating since 2003 and is a closed and very limited forum for Russian-speaking hackers.
Bill Gates answers why he uses an Android smartphone instead of an iPhone
Devices with Android software seem to be used for his daily needs by the businessman and former co-founder of Microsoft. In an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, he seems to have fallen “victim of the Clubhouse pandemic”. “To be precise, I use an Android smartphone. Because I want to keep
Cyber-attacks on COVID-19 operators have doubled
Cyber attacks on health, manufacturing, and energy have doubled since last year. According to a report released today by the IBM division, the Th-Intelligence Index of the X-Force team for 2021, outlined the evolution of the attacks for 2020, showing that many wanted to take advantage of the pandemic situation
Gangs of ransomware abuse the flaws of VMWare ESXi
The vulnerabilities were exploited by a large gang of ransomware who decided to take advantage of vulnerabilities in the VMWare ESXi product that develops virtual machines in corporate environments in order to encrypt their virtual hard drives. The vulnerabilities of CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992 affect the Service Location Protocol (SLP) included