Investigators from Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) have disrupted the network behind the dangerous RaccoonO365 infostealer malware that targeted the usernames and credentials of Office 365 users after being granted a court order in the Southern District of New York. The operation saw a total of 338 websites linked to the popular malware seized and…
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Photo Agency/Shutterstock From the initial release of GPT-5, the company’s latest model, to a big personality change that made GPT-5 warmer, OpenAI has been in the headlines virtually every day lately. Now, it seems like the company is weighing another big addition to ChatGPT, which has become one of the most used AI chatbots on…
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A broad coalition of technology partners and law enforcement agencies, spearheaded by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), has disrupted the dangerous Lumma Stealer malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation, which played a key role in the arsenals of multiple cyber criminal gangs, including ransomware crews. Using a court order granted in the US District Court of the Northern…
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is expanding a free cyber defence service to all schools across the country, helping the heavily at-risk education sector enhance its resilience at no cost. The expansion follows a successful roll-out of the NCSC’s Protective Domain Name Service (PDNS) for schools in 2023, and the enhanced service will…
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It has long been held that a surefire way for anybody to protect themselves – and their employer – from falling victim to a cyber attack was not to download any unexpected email attachments, but according to email security specialist Mimecast, cyber criminals seem to be moving away from this tactic. In the first six…
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Cyber security companies BeyondTrust and Cloudflare have criticised identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta after both became ensnared in yet another cyber attack against the latter’s systems. BeyondTrust said it detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta admin account on 2 October 2023, which used a valid session cookie stolen from Okta. It…
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Credential management software supplier 1Password has disclosed it has been caught up in the same breach of the tech support systems of fellow identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta that impacted BeyondTrust and Cloudflare. 1Password chief technology officer (CTO) Pedro Canahuati said the firm detected suspicious activity on the Okta tenant it uses to…
Identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta has warned its customers to be alert to a developing campaign of cyber attacks in which an unknown threat actor is using social engineering to hijack highly privileged roles in their Okta tenants. The supplier said that over the past couple of weeks, multiple US-based customers had reported…
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