The tech giant said a group called “Outsider Enterprise” used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.
The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it’s exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google said it notified more than 100 organizations that had potentially vulnerable servers.
The ShinyHunters hacking gang claims to have compromised the Oracle PeopleSoft servers of more than 100 organizations, including many universities.
Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law firms’ offices, where the criminals have stolen data using USB drives or remote access tools.
Cybercriminals used the Glassworm botnet to infect open source software projects with malware, and in turn hack the developers and companies that use that software.
First VPN promised hackers complete anonymity for their cyberattacks. But Europol said it was able to notify the service’s users that they have now been identified.
OpenAI said the damage was limited to the employees’ devices, and did not affect user data nor its production systems, and none of its intellectual property was stolen.
A ransomware group has claimed responsibility for hacking the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, and is attempting to extort the company.