Tag: Group

  • Wired: Apple May Owe You $20 in a Siri Privacy Lawsuit Settlement

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-95-million-siri-privacy-lawsuit/ Source: Wired Title: Apple May Owe You $20 in a Siri Privacy Lawsuit Settlement Feedly Summary: Plus: The FBI discovers a historic trove of homemade explosives, new details emerge in China’s hack of the US Treasury Department, and more. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a series of significant…

  • The Register: Atos denies Space Bears’ ransomware claims – with a ‘but’

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/atos_denies_space_bears_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Atos denies Space Bears’ ransomware claims – with a ‘but’ Feedly Summary: Points finger at third-party infrastructure being breached French tech giant Atos today denied that Space Bears criminals breached its systems – but noted that third-party infrastructure was compromised by the ransomware crew, and that files accessed…

  • The Register: China’s cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/31/china_cyber_intrusions_2024/ Source: The Register Title: China’s cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024 Feedly Summary: From targeted espionage to pre-positioning – not that they are mutually exclusive The Chinese government’s intrusions into America’s telecommunications and other critical infrastructure networks this year appears to signal a shift from cyberspying as usual to prepping…

  • The Register: How cops taking down LockBit, ALPHV led to RansomHub’s meteoric rise

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/28/lockbit_alphv_disruptions_ransomhub_rise/ Source: The Register Title: How cops taking down LockBit, ALPHV led to RansomHub’s meteoric rise Feedly Summary: Cut off one head, two more grow back in its place RansomHub, the ransomware collective that emerged earlier this year, quickly gained momentum, outpacing its criminal colleagues and hitting its victims especially hard. The group…

  • Slashdot: Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners’ Movements

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/12/27/2256234/massive-vw-data-leak-exposed-800000-ev-owners-movements?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners’ Movements Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident involving the VW Group’s inadequate data security highlights significant vulnerabilities in automotive cloud services, exposing sensitive user information for hundreds of thousands of vehicles. This lapse presents critical insights for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting EU Artificial Intelligence Act

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/26/eu-artificial-intelligence-act/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting EU Artificial Intelligence Act Feedly Summary: Providers and deployers of AI systems shall take measures to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy of their staff and other persons dealing with the operation and use of AI systems on their behalf, taking…

  • Wired: The Worst Hacks of 2024

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/worst-hacks-2024/ Source: Wired Title: The Worst Hacks of 2024 Feedly Summary: From Chinese cyberspies breaching US telecoms to ruthless ransomware gangs disrupting health care for millions of people, 2024 saw some of the worst hacks, breaches, and data leaks ever. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines significant cybersecurity incidents and…

  • The Register: How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi’s ashes to become ‘most prevalent malware’

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/24/androxgh0st_botnet_mozi/ Source: The Register Title: How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi’s ashes to become ‘most prevalent malware’ Feedly Summary: Botnet’s operators ‘driven by similar interests as that of the Chinese state’ After the Mozi botnet mysteriously disappeared last year, a new and seemingly more powerful botnet, Androxgh0st, rose from its ashes and has quickly…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/modernbert/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT Feedly Summary: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT BERT was an early language model released by Google in October 2018. Unlike modern LLMs it wasn’t designed for generating text. BERT was trained for masked token prediction and was generally…

  • Slashdot: WhatsApp Scores Historic Victory Against NSO Group in Long-Running Spyware Hacking Case

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/12/23/1538200/whatsapp-scores-historic-victory-against-nso-group-in-long-running-spyware-hacking-case?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: WhatsApp Scores Historic Victory Against NSO Group in Long-Running Spyware Hacking Case Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A U.S. judge has held Israeli spyware maker NSO Group liable for breaching hacking laws through the use of its Pegasus spyware on WhatsApp users. The ruling underscores the…