Daily Cyber Brief
The U.S. Army is doubling its cyber corps, numerous U.S. hospitals leak patient information, and a Chinese APT is using the new PingPull malware for cyberespionage...
Cybersecurity
A Google engineer says one of the firm's artificial intelligence (AI) systems might have its own feelings and says its "wants" should be respected. Google says The Language Model for Dialogue Applications (Lamda) is a breakthrough technology that can engage in free-flowing…
The U.S. Army will double the size of its active-duty cyber forces by the end of the decade as the Pentagon shifts its focus from counterinsurgency and prepares for future fights with technologically savvy opponents, officials said. Growth in Cyber Mission Force teams…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two medium-security flaws in Mitel 6800/6900 desk phones that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to gain root privileges on the devices. Tracked as CVE-2022-29854 and CVE-2022-29855 (CVSS score…
Officials at Cape Cod’s transit bureau said they are still in the process of recovering from a ransomware attack that impacted their servers and communication systems on Memorial Day weekend. Tom Cahir, administrator of the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (CCRTA)…
UK law enforcers are celebrating after shutting down one of the country’s largest-ever drugs laboratories, thanks to the takedown of a popular encrypted comms service in 2020. EncroChat was used by tens of thousands of criminals globally before police managed to…
BPFDoor isn't new to the cyberattack game — in fact, it's gone undetected for years — but PwC researchers discovered the piece of malware in 2021. Subsequently, the cybersecurity community is learning more about the stealthy nature of malware, how it works, and how it…
A major hospital in Yuma, Arizona is sending breach notification letters to more than 700,000 patients after a ransomware attack in April lead to a data breach involving Social Security numbers. In letters to victims recently made public, Yuma Regional Medical Center…
A technically sophisticated threat actor known as SeaFlower has been targeting Android and iOS users as part of an extensive campaign that mimics official cryptocurrency wallet websites intending to distribute backdoored apps that drain victims' funds. Said to be first discovered…
Kaiser Permanente, one of America's leading not-for-profit health plans and health care providers, has recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the health information of more than 69,000 individuals. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente provides health care services…
A Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Gallium has been observed using a previously undocumented remote access trojan in its espionage attacks targeting companies operating in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. Called PingPull, the "difficult-to-detect"…