The pernicious ransomware organization added the city of Wichita to its leak site, giving officials until May 15th to pay an unspecified ransom.
We previously covered the city's announcement of the attack over the weekend.
In the wake of the attack, city officials say it can only accept cash or checks for all city services, although the city will not shut off water services as a result until regular payment methods come back online.
This attack also comes on the heels of the US law enforcement agencies publicly naming the suspected leader of LockBit, Dmitry Khoroshev.
Reuters' sources say the US Commerce Department began considering technology export restrictions on proprietary and closed source AI models.
To date, US export restrictions focus on limiting access to AI training hardware to China.
Under that order, any models over that threshold must report AI development plans to Commerce.
In a 2024 homeland threat assessment, the Department of Homeland Security said access to advanced AI models could allow threat actors to efficient develop large-scale cyber attacks or create biological weapons.
Researchers at UC San Diego, Purdue, UNC Chapel Hill, Georgia Institute of Technology and Google released findings on this new vulnerability impacting Intel CPUs dubbed Pathfinder.
The researchers showed an attack able to use Pathfinder to extract encryption keys and leak images.
Previous Spectre mitigations work on Pathfinder as well.
The investigation found over 1 million fake orders processed in the last three years, with losses estimated around €50 million.
Over 800,000 in the US and Europe shared personal information with the sites.
The staff at Security Week put together a list of the major vendor announcements at RSA Conference.
AI security and AI integrations remained a major focus.
Vendors showed off AI-powered coworkers for promoting security awareness in real time, visibility and access control tools into AI model data, tools to help red teams discover AI vulnerabilities, integration of gen-AI models into software supply chain monitoring, as well as governance solutions, AI-powered SOC platforms, and real-time in-IDE LLM scanning tools.
The French medical imaging firm Coradix-Magnescan warned patients a cyberattack began impacting its operations.
Over the weekend, Sky News reported that China breached the systems of the third-party payment contractor SSCL, used by the Ministry of Defense to pay personnel.
In the House of Commons this week, defense minister Grant Shapps said it remained too early to make any claims on who orchestrated the attack.
The CSA plans to add heat pumps and solar panels in its next Matter release, but no word on when home security devices like cameras and doorbells will get support.
This Cyber News was published on cisoseries.com. Publication date: Thu, 09 May 2024 14:43:06 +0000