Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks
group demanded up to $10 million from each victim Jonathan Greig / The Record : Ransomware responders plead guilty to using ALPHV in attacks on US organizations Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : 2 US Cybersecu...
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
Draft of rules proposed … Debanish Achom / NDTV : Parents' Consent Must For Children's Social Media Accounts: Draft Data Rules Mathrubhumi English : Draft rules for digital privacy notified; Kids unde...
US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find that UltraAV was installed remotely to replace Kaspersky on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV owner Pango
switchover caught many users by surprise Ernestas Naprys / Cybernews.com : Kaspersky users shocked by automatic antivirus replacement without explicit permission Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / Bet...
CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $963.9M, vs. $958.6M est., and cuts its FY 2025 revenue and profit forecasts, after July's Windows outage
but unsurprisingly, it's not going to last Jessica Lyons / The Register : CrowdStrike's meltdown didn't dent its market dominance ... yet Jenn Brice / Fortune : CrowdStrike CEO celebrates ‘resilient’ ...
Elon Musk's Donald Trump interview on X Spaces was derailed by technical glitches at the scheduled start time on August 12; Musk blamed “a massive DDoS attack”
but Elon Musk Desperately Needs Him Back Simon Sharwood / The Register : Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS Emily Dreibelbis / PCMag : Musk Blames DDoS Attack For 40-Minute De...
AMD releases updates to mitigate the “Sinkclose” vulnerability but has no plans to update older Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 or Threadripper 1000 and 2000 CPUs
which the company says it probably won't patch now Ashish Khaitan / The Cyber Express : Sinkclose Vulnerability in AMD Chips: What You Need to Know About Unpatched Models Jacob Roach / Digital Trends ...
OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, a GPT-4-powered search tool that can organize links and summarize its findings, limited to 10K users but eventually coming to ChatGPT
Whenever AI companies present a vision for the role of artificial intelligence … Greg Noone / Tech Monitor : OpenAI announces AI search engine SearchGPT Samantha Dunn / CCN.com : SearchGPT: How to Sig...
Kaspersky plans to close its US business and eliminate US-based positions, following the country's ban on the sale of its antivirus tool starting July 20
offices to close by July 20 Sean Lyngaas / CNN : Russian cyber firm Kaspersky to shut down US operations after ban Cynthia B Brumfield / Metacurity : Kaspersky Decamps the US Following Government Ban ...