“Multiple cyberattacks targeted various French government agencies since Sunday night, according to the prime minister’s office.” The French agencies likely faced DDoS attacks, but no specific details were provided by the minister’s office. Experts from the government have stated that the attacks were not complicated. They mentioned that familiar technical …

Ransomware attacks increased in several important sectors in February 2024 despite a slow start to the year. In February, ransomware gangs increased the number of victims posted on their extortion sites. There were 310 victims, compared to 242 in the previous month and 229 in February 2023. In February, attacks …

Shared responsibilities must be ensured to save countries digital space safety speakers said this at “InfoSecCon-2024” held at Dhaka on 9 March, Saturday. The conference included topic based sessions and panel discussions on various topic where countries leading professionals were presents. S M Tofayel Ahmad, joint director, ICT, Bangladesh Bank …

Swiss authorities discovered 65,000 leaked government documents containing classified information and sensitive personal data. The leak occurred after a ransomware attack on an IT vendor last year. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland recently released a report analyzing the data stolen during a cyber attack in May. The …

Apple released security updates to fix vulnerabilities in Safari, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. A cyber threat actor could use some of these vulnerabilities to take control of a system that is affected. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisories and apply the necessary updates: Safari 17.4  …

The NSA and CISA have released five bulletins on securing a cloud environment. Cloud services are very popular for businesses because they offer managed servers, storage, and applications without the need to manage their own infrastructure. Many enterprise application developers now offer both on-premise and cloud-hosted versions of their services. …

A federal grand jury indicted Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, charging him with four counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with an alleged plan to steal from Google LLC (Google) proprietary information related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The announcement was made by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland …

Due to a technical glitch, users worldwide had problems using Facebook and Instagram yesterday. Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the issue was caused by an unspecified “technical issue” which was quickly resolved. The social media has apologized to users for the inconvenience. According to the Daily Mail report, Zuckerberg’s meta …

Submarine cable damage in the Red Sea is causing problems for telecommunications networks. Providers need to reroute a significant amount of traffic between Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, which includes internet traffic. Cables belonging to four major telecoms networks have been “cut” causing “significant” disruption to communications networks in …