US Intelligence Agencies’ Embrace of Generative AI Is Wary and Urgent May 28, 2024 By Frank Bajak Long before generative AI’s boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl...
Georgia’s Largest County Still Repairing Damage from January Cyberattack March 4, 2024 By Russ Bynum and Frank Bajak Georgia’s largest county is still repairing damage inflicted on its government a month ago by hackers who shut down office...
HP Enterprise Discloses Hack by Suspected State-Backed Russian Hackers January 29, 2024 By Frank Bajak Hewlett Packard Enterprise disclosed Wednesday that suspected state-backed Russian hackers broke into its cloud-based email system and stole data from...
Retail Mortgage Lender loanDepot Struggles With Cyberattack January 10, 2024 By Frank Bajak The U.S. retail mortgage lender loanDepot is struggling to recover from a cyberattack that impacted its loan processing and phone...
Breaches by Iran-Affiliated Hackers Spanned Multiple States December 4, 2023 By Frank Bajak and Marc Levy A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers...
FBI, European Partners Seize Major Malware Network in Blow to Global Cybercrime August 31, 2023 By Frank Bajak and Stefanie Dazio U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network...
Don’t Expect Quick Fixes in ‘Red-Teaming’ of AI Models; Security Was an Afterthought August 15, 2023 By Frank Bajak White House officials concerned by AI chatbots’ potential for societal harm and the Silicon Valley powerhouses rushing them to market...
White House Holds First-Ever Summit on Ransomware Crisis Plaguing Public Schools August 10, 2023 By Frank Bajak The White House on Tuesday held its first-ever cybersecurity “summit” on the ransomware attacks plaguing U.S. schools, in which criminal...
Ransomware Criminals Are Dumping Kids’ Private Files Online After School Hacks July 7, 2023 By Frank Bajak, Heather Hollingsworth and Larry Fenn The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student...
Microsoft Says Early June Disruptions to Outlook, Cloud Platform Were Cyberattacks June 19, 2023 By Frank Bajak In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite – including the Outlook email and OneDrive...