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VMware, NVIDIA team up, launch major GenAI initiative at VMware Explore

The generative AI (GenAI) offensive continued yesterday with VMware Inc. and NVIDIA announcing an expansion of a partnership the two said is designed to...

LinkedIn collaborates with CLEAR to bring free identity verification to Canadian users

Professional social media platform LinkedIn is teaming up with CLEAR, a secure identity company, to introduce free identity verification services for its users in...

Former Tesla employees stole data of over 75,000 staff, company says

Over 75,000 current and former employees of car manufacturer Tesla are being notified their personal information was stolen in an insider data breach. Tesla notified...

Class action against Government of Canada advances following 2020 CRA privacy breach

The Federal Court of Canada has certified the class action filed against the Government of Canada over the spate of cyber incidents that took...

Cuba ransomware gang looking for unpatched Veeam installations: Report

The Cuba ransomware gang has tweaked its attack strategy to go after IT environments that haven’t patched a recently discovered vulnerability in Veeam Software’s...

Phishing campaign tries to evade defences with QR codes

Threat actors are still using QR codes in phishing campaigns to trick employees into downloading malware or revealing their credentials. The latest campaign included targeting...

Canadian marketing company hit by data breach, says Ontario liquor board

A Canadian marketing company that counts some of the country’s biggest corporations as its customers has been hit by a data breach. One of them...

How the fledgling INC ransomware gang struck one victim

The new INC ransomware group took no more than a week — and possibly less — to enter and encrypt an organization’s IT systems,...

Scotiatrust US customers sideswiped by MOVEit hack

The U.S. investment advisory division of a Canadian-headquartered bank is among the latest companies to admit it was sideswiped by the exploitation of a...

Alberta dental plan administrator paid ransomware gang after attack

An agency that administers dental benefit plans for Alberta’s disabled children, seniors and low-income residents has paid the 8base ransomware gang an undisclosed amount...

Ditch SMS-based MFA, urges board investigating Lapsus$ gang’s successful attacks

Many organizations victimized by the Lapsus$ extortion gangs through SIM swapping and tricking employees through social engineering have only themselves to blame for being...

Black Hat: Tenable to add AI query module to its Exposure Management platform; DARPA AI Cyber Challenge announced

Tenable has become the latest cybersecurity company to add a generative AI module to its products. At this week’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas,...

Solution to hardware flaw in Intel CPUs may cause large performance hit

A hardware flaw in Intel Core and Xeon CPUs lets attackers steal data from other users on the same system, including on servers that...

Hundreds of executives are falling for Microsoft 365 phishing attacks: Report

Threat actors are having recent success defeating multifactor authentication-protected Microsoft 365 cloud accounts using the EvilProxy phishing kit, say researchers at Proofpoint. Since early March,...

BlackBerry intelligence report reveals a 40 per cent increase in cyberattacks

BlackBerry Limited has released its most recent quarterly global threat intelligence report, shedding light on a concerning 40 per cent rise in cyberattacks directed...

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