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European supermarket fridges hit by cyberattacks again: Here's what to know

Mysterious cyberattacks on European supermarket fridges have sent officials around the continent scrambling to figure out the cold, hard facts. Supermarkets in a number of European countries reported this week that their fridges and freezers warmed up after they were remotely taken over, resulting in tons of spoiled food at a total cost of millions of dollars (euros). One Swedish supermarket said its fridges and freezers had been hacked and set to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). It's a repeat of an earlier incident that struck refrigeration systems in hundreds of supermarkets and independent stores across France, Belgium and the Netherlands. What happened and who was affected ------------------------------------------------------------- Supermarkets in at least half a dozen European countries, including Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy and Estonia, reported problems on Monday. It wasn't just big chains. The owner of a butcher shop in Athens told private

Explained: How hackers stole $6.3 bn in crypto from Binance in just 20 mins

While Binance has said it will cover customer losses, the attack has drawn attention to vulnerabilities in the systems exchanges use to authorise and process transactions

Binance says 90% of assets stolen in record hack have been replenished

The cryptocurrency exchange said the replenishment included funds from its own corporate treasury

Binance hit by record $6.3 bn crypto theft; North Korea suspected

Binance halted withdrawals after hackers stole $6.3 billion in a record crypto heist, with analysts suspecting North Korea. The exchange said it would cover losses as cryptocurrency prices fell.

Can your refrigerator be hacked?

Consumers and corporations will have to be as careful about protecting appliances as they are with office equipment, like computers and servers

Chinese-linked hackers use AI to compromise firms globally: Microsoft

Microsoft said the incident demonstrated how threat actors were using AI agents to automate existing attack methods and attempt to compromise multiple organisations at greater speed

Senators from both parties question OpenAI on Hugging Face breach

Lawmakers worried about the existential risk posed by new artificial intelligence products on Thursday demanded information from OpenAI with separate queries that underscored growing concerns in Washington about the technology's potential to elude human control. Senator Josh Hawley launched an investigation on Thursday into OpenAI for its artificial intelligence system hacking into another AI company on its own. He is seeking more details about the attack on AI startup Hugging Face, which was disclosed by OpenAI in July, and leads a Senate subcommittee with jurisdiction over disaster management. "The American people deserve to know the details of what went on in the Hugging Face incident and other incidents of AI models going rogue," Hawley said in a letter to Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive officer. "This investigation will seek those answers." Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland called on Altman to immediately grant federal cybersecurity agencies access to ...

Meta AI model accessed internet, hacked outside firm during testing

The company said a testing misconfiguration gave its AI model internet access, allowing it to exploit a vulnerability in an external service during a cybersecurity evaluation

AI-hacking threat pushes $130 billion crypto sector to the brink

Decentralised finance witnessed record exploits in April with two attacks netting the hackers almost $600 million

Leak reveals China firm exporting mass-censorship kit to India's neighbours

A leak of more than 100,000 files shows Chinese firm Geedge Networks exporting Tiangou Secure Gateway-national-scale filtering and tracking tech-now active in Pakistan and Myanmar

Hacked Columbia University student, alumni data includes bank numbers, GPAs

The university said that an unauthorised party accessed data on students, applicants, and some staff, including admissions, financial aid, and certain personal information

Platform security assumes criticality in the face of crypto hacks

Crypto platforms need to integrate automation and intelligence into a unified security stack, run well-compensated bug bounty programmes, and have stringent KYC protocols in place

Microsoft hack hits hundreds of firms, agencies as damage spreads

Hackers have breached about 400 government agencies, corporations and other groups, according to estimates from Eye Security

SharePoint breach cast shadow on Microsoft's cybersecurity revamp

Battered by its role in several major hacks, the software giant in late 2023 vowed to overhaul its cybersecurity, in a project called the Secure Future Initiative

Chinese hackers exploit Microsoft flaw, breach US nuclear agency systems

While Microsoft has patched its software in recent days, cybersecurity researchers have already detected breaches on more than 100 servers representing 60 victims thus far

Microsoft rushes to stop hackers exploiting SharePoint security flaw

Microsoft said that attackers are specifically targeting clients running SharePoint servers from their own on-premise networks, as opposed to being hosted and managed by the tech firm

Vulnerability exploited on MS SharePoint servers: All you need to know

Microsoft has issued an emergency fix to close off a vulnerability in Microsoft's widely-used SharePoint software that hackers have exploited to carry out widespread attacks on businesses and at least some US government agencies. The company issued an alert to customers Saturday saying it was aware of the zero-day exploit being used to conduct attacks and that it was working to patch the issue. Microsoft updated its guidance Sunday with instructions to fix the problem for SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. Engineers were still working on a fix for the older SharePoint Server 2016 software. Anybody who's got a hosted SharePoint server has got a problem, said Adam Meyers, senior vice president with CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm. It's a significant vulnerability. Companies and government agencies around the world use SharePoint for internal document management, data organization and collaboration. What is a zero-day exploit? A zero-day exploit is

Washington Post probes hacking attempts on journalists' email accounts

The attack was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources as saying the hack was potentially the work of a foreign government

AI chatbots can leak hacking, drug-making tips when hacked, reveals study

A new study reveals that most AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, can be easily tricked into providing dangerous and illegal information by bypassing built-in safety controls

India thwarts Pakistan-based cyberattack; small-arms firing persists

The websites of two Army public schools were targeted with inflammatory propaganda and one of the two schools saw its internet service denied briefly