Earth Day 2024: Sophos Supports this Year’s Planet vs. Plastics Campaign
To mark Earth Day on April 22, and its theme of Planet vs. Plastics, Sophos employees are being encouraged to use their Sophos Volunteering hours to take part in practical opportunities to join the fight against plastic pollution, as...
‘Junk gun’ ransomware: Peashooters can still pack a punch
A Sophos X-Ops investigation finds that a wave of crude, cheap ransomware could spell trouble for small businesses and individuals – but also provide insights into threat actor career development and the wider threat landscape
Sophos Guidance on the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
Guidance to support financial entities in the EU impacted by the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
Cisco Systems Joins Microsoft, IBM in Vatican Pledge to Ensure Ethical Use and Development of AI
Pope Francis has called for an international treaty to ensure AI is developed and used ethically, devoting his annual peace message this year to the topic.
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Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ – aka backdooring encryption
And warn that AI us already being used by extremists to plot attacks The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance to...
Governments issue alerts after ‘sophisticated’ state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes
Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too A previously unknown and "sophisticated" nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked network devices made by...
Smashing Security podcast #369: Keeping the lights on after a ransomware attack
Leicester City Council suffers a crippling ransomware attack, and a massive data breach, but is it out of the dark yet? And as election fever hits India we take a close eye at deepfakery.
All this and more is discussed...
Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks
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Hackers backed by a powerful nation-state have been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls in a five-month-long campaign that breaks into government networks around the...
