Australian telecom company Tangerine is blaming the compromise of a third-party contractor's credentials for exposing personal information of 232,000 customers, which had been stored in a legacy database. The breach exposed customers' names, birthdates, mobile numbers, addresses and account numbers.
South Korea's election watchdog warned on Monday that the parliamentary elections in April could be marred by artificial intelligence-generated deepfake campaigns aimed at influencing voters. The country's recently amended Elections Act bans the use of deepfakes for election campaigning.
The South Korean President's Office told local media Tuesday that suspected North Korean hackers had targeted the private email account of an official in November ahead of the president's state visits to the U.K. and France. Local reports suggest the hackers accessed the details of scheduled events.
Large language models may boost the capabilities of novice hackers but are of little use to threat actors past their salad days, concludes a British governmental evaluation. "There may be a limited number of tasks in which use of currently deployed LLMs could increase the capability of a novice."
Researchers at South Korean cybersecurity company S2W attributed a new malware campaign that targeted South Korean organizations to North Korean cybercrime group Kimsuky. The hackers disguised their malware installer as a security program installation file to deceive victims and steal their data.
Pro-Israel hacktivist group R00TK1T said it breached Malaysian telecom giant Maxis shortly after it promised to target organizations in Malaysia because of the country's stance on the Middle East conflict. The hackers also breached telecom company Aminia and online learning platform Yoututor.
The Filipino government has accused China-based threat actors of hacking into the websites of a half-dozen government entities and infiltrating government email systems. DICT officials said the hackers used China-based IP addresses and the services of Chinese telecom firm Unicom to mount attacks.
Fraudsters used deepfake technology to trick an employee at a Hong Kong-based multinational company to transfer $25.57 million to their bank accounts. Hong Kong Police said Sunday that the fraudsters had created deepfake likenesses of top company executives in a video conference to fool the worker.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol expects North Korea to interfere with the upcoming legislative elections and warned citizens to prepare for waves of cyberattacks, fake news and disinformation. Investigators believe North Korea conducted 80% of the attacks on public sector organizations in 2023.
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice used a court order to disrupt a Chinese hacking operation that compromised thousands of internet-connected devices and targeted sensitive areas of U.S. critical infrastructure, according to media reports.
The U.K. government is mulling the rollout of a voluntary set of rules urging software vendors to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in their systems. The measure comes as the government continues to face criticism over poor management of legacy infrastructure.
The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom sanctioned a Russian man the governments say was behind the October 2022 hacking of Medibank, Australia's largest private health insurer. The attack was a high point in a wave of data breaches buffeting the country that year.
The Australian government plans to adopt a risk-based approach to AI governance modeled after the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act, which requires strict regulation on any uses of AI systems that could pose risks to national security, violate individual privacy or cause harm to society.
The British data regulator is set to analyze the privacy implications of processing scraped data used for training generative artificial intelligence algorithms. The Information Commissioner's Office is soliciting comments from AI developers, legal experts and other industry stakeholders.
Australian fashion and sports retailer The Iconic has blamed careless customers for a spree of incidents that allowed hackers to access customer accounts and place orders worth thousands of dollars. The firm said customers made themselves easy targets by reusing passwords across multiple websites.
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