Rubrik acquires AI startup Predibase to boost agentic AI offerings
Data management company Rubrik announced plans Wednesday to acquire artificial intelligence startup Predibase, a move aimed at accelerating the adoption of agentic AI in enterprise…
Category: Cyberscoop
Meta confused over WhatsApp ban issued to House staffers
A notice to House offices Monday from the chamber’s chief administrative officer said that staffers are forbidden from having WhatsApp on official devices starting next…
The ‘16 billion password breach’ story is a farce
Supposed experts and mainstream media have spent the past few days hyperventilating over reports of a colossal data breach that exposed more than 16 billion…
Russian court releases several REvil ransomware gang members
Four members of the notorious cybercriminal group REvil were found guilty of financial fraud and computer crimes targeting primarily American victims, but were released after…
Financial deepfake scams targeted in bipartisan Senate bill
A congressional crackdown on deepfakes continued this week with the introduction of a bipartisan Senate bill targeting financial scams that leverage artificial intelligence to trick…
Aflac duped by social-engineering attack, marking another hit on insurance industry
Aflac disclosed Friday that it experienced a cyberattack last week that potentially impacted the supplemental insurance company’s data. The Georgia-based company said it identified unauthorized…
Iran’s financial sector takes another hit as largest crypto exchange is targeted
Cyberattacks targeting Iran’s financial sector widened Wednesday, as a pro-Israel hacktivist group stole more than $90 million from Nobitex, the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The…
Unusually patient suspected Russian hackers pose as State Department in ‘sophisticated’ attacks on researchers
The hackers targeting prominent researcher and Russian military expert Keir Giles were different this time. The attackers, suspected to be working on behalf of the…
Researchers say AI hacking tools sold online were powered by Grok, Mixtral
Multiple variants of jailbroken and uncensored AI tools being sold on hacker forums were likely generated using popular commercial large language models from Mistral AI…
Iran’s Bank Sepah disrupted by cyberattack claimed by pro-Israel hacktivist group
Bank Sepah’s website is offline following a hacktivist group’s claimed attack on the Iran state-owned bank. The group, known as Predatory Sparrow — or Gonjeshke…
Cyber experts call for supercharging volunteer network to protect community organizations
The United States should move toward a new model where “target rich, resource-poor” community organizations like hospitals, schools, utilities and municipal governments share their cybersecurity…
Scattered Spider, fresh off retail sector attack spree, pivots to insurance industry
Scattered Spider, the loose-knit cybercrime collective that recently ran roughshod over U.K.- and U.S.-based retailers, has pivoted once again, setting its sites on insurance companies,…