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Belgian ale legend Duvel's brewery borked as ransomware halts production

Duvel halts beer production ransomware

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50by Connor Jones / 1d

Biz reassures quaffers it has enough beer, expects quick recovery before weekend Belgian beer brewer Duvel says a ransomware attack has brought its facility to a standstill while its IT team works to remediate the damage.…

Swiss cheese security? Play ransomware gang milks government of 65,000 files

Play ransomware leaks Swiss government data

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by Connor Jones / 4h

Classified docs, readable passwords, and thousands of personal information nabbed in Xplain breach The Swiss government had around 65,000 files related to it stolen by the Play ransomware gang during an attack on an IT supplier, its National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) says.…

Change Healthcare registers pulse after crippling ransomware attack

Change Healthcare restores pharmacy services

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by Connor Jones / 2h

Remaining services are expected to return in the coming weeks after $22M ALPHV ransom Change Healthcare has taken the first steps toward a full recovery from the ransomware attack in February by bringing its electronic prescription services back online.…

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Font security 'still a Helvetica of a problem' says Australian graphics outfit Canva

by Laura Dobberstein / 12h

Who knew that unzipping a font archive could unleash a malicious file Online graphic design platform Canva went looking for security problems in fonts, and found three – in "strange places."…

Securing open source software: Whose job is it, anyway?

OpenSSF advocates for secure repositories

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by Jessica Lyons / 15h

CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up The US government and some of the largest open source foundations and package repositories have announced a series of initiatives intended to improve software supply-chain security, while also repeating calls for developers to increase support for such efforts.…

We're not Meta support: State AGs tell Zuck to fix rampant account takeover problem

States urge Meta combat account hijackings

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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 18h

'We refuse to operate as customer service representatives' A group of 41 US state attorneys general, tired of serving as a customer complaint clearinghouse for Facebook and Instagram users, have sent a letter to Meta asking it to figure out how to reduce a "dramatic and persistent spike" in account takeovers.…

Possible China link to Change Healthcare ransomware attack

by Jessica Lyons / 22h

Alleged crim bought SmartScreen Killer, Cobalt Strike on dark-web markets A criminal claiming to be an ALPHV/BlackCat affiliate — the gang responsible for the widely disruptive Change Healthcare ransomware infection last month — may have ties to Chinese government-backed cybercrime syndicates.…

JetBrains TeamCity under attack by ransomware thugs after disclosure mess

3 TTPs

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by Connor Jones / 1d

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CVE-2024-27198 & 1 other

More than 1,000 servers remain unpatched and vulnerable Security researchers are increasingly seeing active exploit attempts using the latest vulnerabilities in JetBrains' TeamCity that in some cases are leading to ransomware deployment.…

MAR 6, 2024

VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws

23by Simon Sharwood / 1d

Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest Hypervisors are supposed to provide an inviolable isolation layer between virtual machines and hardware. But hypervisor heavyweight VMware by Broadcom yesterday revealed its hypervisors are not quite so inviolable as it might like.…

Reminder: Infostealer malware is coming for your ChatGPT credentials

225,000 ChatGPT credentials compromised

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23by Brandon Vigliarolo / 1d

Singaporean researchers note rising presence of OpenAI logins in infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims to have found some 225,000 log files containing login details for the service last year.…

US politicians want ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face ban

RESTRICT Act proposed TikTok ban

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by Laura Dobberstein / 1d

The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would force Chinese internet concern ByteDance to divest TikTok – its most valuable property – or see it banned in the US.…

Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google

by Thomas Claburn / 1d

Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Google has been accused of profiting from gift card scams.…

Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets

Former Google engineer indicted for stealing AI

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by Simon Sharwood / 1d

Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly A now-former Google employee has been charged with stealing the ad giant’s AI trade secrets while quietly working for two Chinese companies – after easily defeating whatever security controls Big G had in place.…

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