X suffered a DDoS attack. Its CEO and security researchers can’t agree on who did it.
Source: CyberScoop
X’s wave of outages resembled a DDoS attack and Dark Storm Team, a prolific threat group specializing in such attacks, claimed responsibility. Social media service X was hit by a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks Monday, which rendered the platform formerly known as Twitter inaccessible at times for users with intermittent outages and errors, according to researchers.
GitHub-Hosted Malware Infects 1M Windows Users
Source: Dark Reading
A broad malvertising campaign used a combination of illegal streaming websites and GitHub to impact nearly 1 million Windows PCs with data-stealing malware. The campaign, identified by Microsoft, targeted both consumer and enterprise devices across a wide range of industries and organizations.
BianLian ransomware wanna-bes are targeting business execs using the actual mail, FBI says
Source: CyberNews
In a ransomware first, threat actors claiming to be from the BianLian ransomware gang have been found using the regular US postal service to try and extort money from corporate executives, the FBI warned on Thursday.
CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 300 critical infrastructure orgs
Source: Bleeping Computer
CISA says the Medusa ransomware operation has impacted over 300 organizations in critical infrastructure sectors in the United States until last month. This was revealed in a joint advisory issued today in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).
Popular Voice Cloning Tools Lack Safeguards
Source: Data Breach Today
Need a new voice? Artificial intelligence has you covered. Need to protect your own? That's another story. Some of the most widely used AI voice synthesis tools offer only superficial safeguards against misuse - if any at all, researchers found in a recent analysis.