Vipin Surelia, VISA on mitigating cyber frauds this tax filing season – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-111000270,imgsize-68548,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/cybercrime-fraud/vipin-surelia-visa-on-mitigating-cyber-frauds-this-tax-filing-season.jpg Vipin Surelia, Head, Risk Services, Visa The Reserve Bank of India’s annual report last year highlighted the severity of digital fraud. With 6,659 reported cases amounting to Rs 276 crore, it’s evident that such frauds pose a substantial threat. Tactics used by cybercriminals have evolved, ...
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U.K. Hacker Linked to Notorious Scattered Spider Group Arrested in Spain
U.K. Hacker Linked to Notorious Scattered Spider Group Arrested in Spain https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/arrest.png Jun 16, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / SIM Swapping Law enforcement authorities have allegedly arrested a key member of the notorious cybercrime group called Scattered Spider. The individual, a 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom, was arrested this week in the Spanish city of Palma de Mallorca as he attempted to ...
Read More »Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe – ET CISO
Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-111012937,imgsize-114030,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/grc/meta-pauses-ai-models-launch-in-europe.jpg Meta Platforms will not launch its Meta AI models in Europe for now after the Irish privacy regulator told it to delay its plan to harness data from Facebook and Instagram users, the U.S. social media company said on Friday. The move by Meta came after complaints and a ...
Read More »Pope Francis raising alarm about AI, IT Security News, ET CISO
Pope Francis raising alarm about AI, IT Security News, ET CISO Pope Francis is taking his call for artificial intelligence to be developed and used according to ethical lines to the Group of Seven nations’ meeting in Puglia. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) Pope Francis is no stranger to artificial intelligence – a deepfake photo of him in a white puffer ...
Read More »New Attack Technique ‘Sleepy Pickle’ Targets Machine Learning Models
New Attack Technique ‘Sleepy Pickle’ Targets Machine Learning Models https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ms.png Jun 13, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Software Security The security risks posed by the Pickle format have once again come to the fore with the discovery of a new “hybrid machine learning (ML) model exploitation technique” dubbed Sleepy Pickle. The attack method, per Trail of Bits, weaponizes the ubiquitous format used to ...
Read More »US health dept says UnitedHealth can notify patients of data breach – ET CISO
US health dept says UnitedHealth can notify patients of data breach – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-110955636,imgsize-7544,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/data-breaches/us-health-dept-says-unitedhealth-can-notify-patients-of-data-breach.jpg U.S. healthcare providers can ask UnitedHealth Group to notify people whose data was exposed during a hack on the company’s Change Healthcare unit in February, according to an update on the health department’s website. The news comes as a relief for U.S. hospitals and healthcare ...
Read More »Tile users’ data exposed after hacker breached internal system, ET CISO
Tile users’ data exposed after hacker breached internal system, ET CISO Tile, popular for its Bluetooth tracking devices, was recently hacked. According to a 404 media report, a hacker was able to access customer information like names, addresses, mobile numbers and email addresses through the company’s internal tools developed for responding to law enforcement requests about Tile trackers. How hacker ...
Read More »Cryptojacking Campaign Targets Misconfigured Kubernetes Clusters
Cryptojacking Campaign Targets Misconfigured Kubernetes Clusters https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/crypto.png Jun 12, 2024NewsroomKubernetes / Endpoint Security Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an ongoing cryptojacking campaign targeting misconfigured Kubernetes clusters to mine Dero cryptocurrency. Cloud security firm Wiz, which shed light on the activity, said it’s an updated variant of a financially motivated operation that was first documented by CrowdStrike in March 2023. “In ...
Read More »Digital Competition Bill: Here’s how India’s EU-like antitrust law worrying big tech – ET CISO
Digital Competition Bill: Here’s how India’s EU-like antitrust law worrying big tech – ET CISO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-110926460,imgsize-57568,width-1200,height=765,overlay-etciso/ot-security/digital-competition-bill-heres-how-indias-eu-like-antitrust-law-worrying-big-tech.jpg The big digital companies would be prohibited from exploiting non-public user data and from favouring their own products or services on their platforms. India’s proposed EU-like antitrust law will pose a fresh regulatory challenge for tech firms including Apple, Google and Meta, laying out ...
Read More »CCI extends bidding deadline for AI to June 28, ET CISO
CCI extends bidding deadline for AI to June 28, ET CISO Fair trade regulator CCI has issued clarifications on the bidding for conducting the study on artificial intelligence and its impact on competition, and has extended the deadline for submission of bids till June 18. Earlier, the deadline for the bids was June 3. In a set of clarifications, the ...
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