Jonathan Greig reports on some of the significant findings in IBM’s new survey on the cost of a breach: Businesses that fall victim to a data breach can expect a financial hit of nearly $5 million on average — a 10% increase compared to last year — according to IBM’s annual report on cybersecurity incidents….
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Hackers claim Disney data theft in protest against AI-generated artwork
Alex Hern reports: Hacktivists claim to have stolen more than a terabyte of data from Disney’s internal chat platform and are leaking the information online in a protest against what they say is the company’s anti-artist stance. The group, which calls itself NullBulge, has been active since at least May. It claims to be motivated…
ChatGPT-aided ransomware in China results in four arrests as AI raises cybersecurity concerns
Coco Feng reports: Four cyber attackers in China have been arrested for developing ransomware with the help of ChatGPT, the first such case in the country involving the popular chatbot that is not officially available locally. The attack was first reported by an unidentified company in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, which had its systems…
DHS/CISA and UK NCSC Release Joint Guidelines for Secure AI System Development
WASHINGTON – Taking a significant step forward in addressing the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today jointly released Guidelines for Secure AI System Development to help developers of any systems that use AI make informed…
Ransomware group leaks data allegedly from Granger Medical Clinic
On November 24, the NoEscape ransomware group added Granger Medical Clinic in Utah to their leak site. As proof, NoEscape provided a filetree and screenshots. The filetree listed numerous files related to facilities and other internal documents, including files whose names appeared to relate to former and current providers and personnel. Some filenames suggested they…
Emerging cybersecurity threats in healthcare | Special Report
Ron Southwick of Chief Healthcare Executive notes what a bad year this has already been in terms of breaches in the healthcare sector, but notes things may even get worse: Even with those dire signs about the dangers of cyberattacks, experts warn that health systems will face new and emerging threats in the years to…