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Private Equity Wire: Global investment firm Carlyle has led a $55m Series B investment round in Hack The Box, a cybersecurity upskilling and talent assessment platform, with a global community of more than 1.7 million members and a portfolio of more than 1,500 enterprise, government and university customers.
Bleeping Computer: Attacks targeting government agencies and military bodies in multiple countries in the APAC region have been attributed to what appears to be a new advanced threat actor that leverages custom malware to steal confidential information.
Cision: An uptake in high-profile data breaches and the exponential rise in digitization have redefined the dynamics in the cybersecurity industry. Stakeholders have become cagey towards data management practices and cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Toronto Star: The federal public safety minister says he is prepared to work with other parliamentarians to revise the Liberal government’s cybersecurity bill after civil society groups and opposition MPs raised transparency and accountability concerns.
Reuters: Hackers have disrupted access to the websites of Denmark's central bank and seven private banks in the country this week, according to the central bank and an IT firm that serves the industry.
Dark Reading: Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November, many security experts have predicted it would only be a matter of time before cybercriminals began using the AI chatbot for writing malware and enabling other nefarious activities. Just weeks later, it looks like that time is already here.
The Star: Des Moines Public Schools announced that classes would be cancelled for its 33,000 students after being “alerted to a cyber security incident on its technology network.“
The Target: Twitter, a U.S based social media platform.
The Take: Exposure of 235 Million records of Personally Identifiable Information including: email addresses, usernames, and phone numbers.
The Vector: A zero-day exploit was used which allowed the attacker to scrape Twitter user profiles for the stolen information. This vulnerability circumvented Twitter’s privacy option which should prevent searching am account by it’s associated phone number/email.
This breach is critical reminder that zero-day exploits do happen, and furthermore that patching software in a timely, effective manner is a key component of ensuring customer data is protected.
Bleeping Computer: A signed Windows driver has been used in attacks on banks in French-speaking countries, likely from a threat actor that stole more than $11 million from various banks.
IBS Intelligence: Working with 11 international entities, CaixaBank has formed a European research consortium to explore ways to improve cybersecurity by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. The project, AI4CYBER, is part of the Horizon Europe programme and is funded by the European Union.
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