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Toronto police arrest three in Canada’s first mobile SMS blaster case

Canadian police have arrested three men in what authorities describe as the country’s first known criminal case involving the use of a mobile “SMS blaster,” a device capable of impersonating a ...
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UK cyber agency handling four major incidents a week as nation-state attacks surge

Britain's cybersecurity chief warned Tuesday that the country is handling four nationally significant cyber incidents every week, with the majority now traced back to hostile foreign governments ...
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Hackers deployed wiper malware in destructive attacks on Venezuela’s energy sector

Hackers deployed a previously unknown destructive malware against Venezuela’s energy and utilities sector in an attack that appears to have been designed to destroy systems, researchers have found. In ...
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Ransomware attack continues to disrupt healthcare in London nearly two years later

More than 18 months after a ransomware attack disrupted care at hospitals in South East London, internal documents show at least one NHS trust is still working without fully restored systems and ...
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Ukrainian emergency services and hospitals hit by espionage campaign using new AgingFly malware

Hackers have targeted Ukrainian hospitals and local government bodies in a new espionage campaign using a malware tool dubbed AgingFly, researchers say. Ukraine’s computer emergency response team ...
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Teen arrested in Northern Ireland over cyberattack on school network

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland after a cyberattack disrupted access to educational systems used by potentially hundreds of thousands of students. The boy, who has not been ...
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FBI, Indonesia take down W3LL phishing tool

A widely used phishing tool called W3LL was disrupted by the FBI and law enforcement agencies in Indonesia on Friday. The phishing kit allowed hackers to create fake websites that looked like ...
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Dutch hospitals face disruptions after ransomware attack on software provider ChipSoft

A ransomware attack on Dutch healthcare software vendor ChipSoft has forced the company to disable parts of its digital services used by hospitals and patients across the Netherlands, the national ...
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Treasury Department announces crypto industry cyber threat sharing initiative

The U.S. Treasury Department said it will now share cyber threat intelligence with the cryptocurrency industry following multiple incidents where millions worth of consumer funds were stolen. Treasury ...
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Ukraine warns Russian hackers are revisiting past breaches to prepare new attacks

Russian hackers are increasingly attempting to regain access to computer systems they previously compromised, Ukraine’s cyber incident response team (CERT-UA) said, warning that earlier breaches are ...
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Crypto platform Drift suspends services after millions stolen in security incident

Security experts believe hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency were stolen from decentralized finance platform Drift on Wednesday after the site confirmed it was experiencing a ...
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European Commission downplays ShinyHunters cyberattack impact

The European Commission on Monday sought to play down the impact of a cyberattack on parts of its public web infrastructure, saying there was no evidence its internal systems had been compromised. In ...